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NEW! - May 26, 2010 - We now include an online garlic farmers market where you buy direct from each market gardener - just like at your local farmers market. |


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This year, 2010, all orders for bulk garlic (all the same kind of garlic) must be placed direct with individual market gardeners. ![]() ![]() |

This Gardener's marketplace is like your local farmer's market.
If you buy from a gardener and later cancel that order and buy from a different gardener, the credit card processing gateway still charges Gourmet Garlic Gardens the full processing
fee plus an additional fee for processing the cancellation and also it places an additional clerical burden on us
so, regretably, we must charge a 10% cancellation fee when processing the cancellation because that's about what it costs us.
My advice is to look around among the various market gardeners and decide what to buy from whom and then place your orders, one grower at a time and stick with the gardeners you have chosen.
If you would like to try a little garlic from several different gardeners, you can order a sampler assortment and request particular garlics from specific growers.
Click here to check out our sampler Assortments.
When using your credit/debit card to buy direct from different gardeners, a separate order is required for each gardener.
You may buy as many different kinds of garlic as you want from any gardener on any order but each grower requires a separate order.
If you want to order garlic from more than one grower, a seperate order must be placed with each gardener.

Our secure shopping cart/card processing gateway charges all cards at the time of the sale and we can't change that. That's good for our customers because the earliest paid orders get the best selection. The last few years there have been shortages caused by weather-related crop failures all over the country and sometimes only the early orders got filled. Early payment gives you your best opportunity to get the best bulbs of the varieties you want.
Pre-paying your order early does not guarantee a grower will have the garlic you have asked but it does assure you an early place in line if there is any of the garlic you ordered.
Sometimes unforseeable things happen and we can't get a garlic you have ordered, then we will let you choose between a substitute or a refund.
If you find this unworkable for you, you can wait until late summer/early fall to place your order for immediate shipping and you will probably get what you want anyway but a lot of people will have picked ahead of you.
You can also use the secure shopping cart to print out a mail order or a telephone order.
Once you place an order with us the system will remember your name, address, etc. so you won't have to re-type it when you place future orders.
Getting the garlics you want can be an uncertain thing and we try to improve your odds of getting what you want.

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The varieties listed below are representative of what we usually have available during the season. Actually, we will probably have a lot more than these varieties. Please check below to see what is available at any given time. Availability of anything on this page is subject to change without notice, owing to the uncertainties of growing anything.
Click on the name of any garlic below and get a more complete description of it.
Green means we have the garlic in stock,
Artichoke Varieties (Softneck)
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California Early - The milder of the two garlics developed at Gilroy, CA - very flavorful, excellent raw garlic. - May be available this year. -
Applegate - A mild and mellow Artichoke garlic. - Order now for shipping in late summer/early fall 2010. -
Early Red Italian - May be available this year. -
Inchelium Red - Winner of 1989 Organic Gardening taste contest - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Lorz Italian -A Strong, Good-Storing Artichoke (An Heirloom).-- - May be available this year. -
Red Toch- Early Harvester with Excellent flavor - Everybody wants Red Toch - very popular lately! - Order Now for summer/fall 2010 shipment. -
Siciliano - A richly flavored and warm garlic with a smooth taste from Sicily. - Order now for shipment in late summer/early fall 2010. -
Simoneti - Large and Mild - Order now for shipment in late August/early September 2010. -
Chet's Italian Red - Will Not be Available in 2010. -
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Asiatic and Turban Varieties (Hardneck)
Maiskij (Turban) - Order now for delivery in August 2010. -
Shilla (Turban) - Order now for delivery in August 2010. -
Asian Tempest (Asiatic) - An Early Harvesting, Very Strong Asiatic of the Turban group- May be available this year. -
Korean Red (Asiatic) - An Early Harvesting, Very Rich, yet mellow Asiatic hardneck. - May be available this year. -
Sonoran (Asiatic) , An Artichoke-like very early harvesting Asiatic garlic Order now for shipment in late summer/early fall 2010. -
Purple Cauldron - Sorry, Not Available in 2010. -
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Silverskin Garlics (Softneck)
Silverwhite A Warm Well-Flavored, Long-Storing Silverskin
- Order now for shipping in August/September 2010.. -
- Good to Fair for Warm Winter Areas. -
S & H Silverskin A richly flavored yet mild, Long-Storing garlic. - Order now for shipping in August/September 2010. -
Nootka Rose - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. - Good to Fair for Warm Winter Areas. -
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Creole Garlics (Hardneck)
Burgundy - A Beautiful mild and mellow Creole garlic. - Available But Only in Sampler Assortments. -
Ajo Rojo - More Zip than your average Creole that tastes as good as it looks. - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Creole Red - A full flavored Creole garlic that is mellow but with a little zing. - Available But Only in Sampler Assortments. -
Cuban Purple - A very richly flavored yet very mild Creole garlic - long storing and excellent for raw eating. - Available in 2010 in Sampler assortments only.. -
Labera Purple - another Creole that tastes as good as it looks. - Sorry, Not Available in 2010. - -
Pescadero Red - A great tasting hardy Spanish fisherman's Creole garlic that grows well in warm winter areas. - May be Available in 2010 in Sampler Assortments. -.
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Purple Stripe Garlics (Hardneck)
Chesnok Red - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Persian Star - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Belarus - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
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The Glazed Group of Purple Stripes (Hardneck)
Purple Glazer- Great warm, flavorful, very purple hardneck - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
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The Marbled Group of Purple Stripes (Hardneck)
Metechi- Great Bulbs of Fire! - We hope to have Metechi in 2010. -
Bogatyr- Great Bulbs of Fire! - We hope to have Bogatyr in 2010.. -
Siberian- Metechi's Mild-Mannered Twin. - We hope to have Siberian in 2010. -
We have no other Marbled Purple Stripe garlics for sale this year but hope to have some more cultivars next year.
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Porcelain Garlics (Hardneck)
Georgian Fire - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Georgian Crystal - Georgian Fire's Mild-Mannered Twin. - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Romanian Red - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
German Stiffneck - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Not Available this year. -
Music - Rich, Fairly Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
German White AKA German Extra Hardy - Rich, Strong Porcelain. - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Zemo - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - May or may not be available this year.. -
Rosewood - An unusual garlic that actually flowers (it's hot and strong). - Sorry, Sold Out. -
Wild Buff - Another flowering garlic with an attitude - tough and hardy. - Not Presently Available -
Leningrad - Earthy Flavor starts off mild and becomes very hot in 30 seconds. - Sorry, Sold Out for 2010. -
Polish Hardneck - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Order now for shipment in late August/early fall 2010. -
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Rocambole Garlics (Hardneck)
We will have definitely have several different kinds of Rocambole garlics for sale this year. Rocamboles are now a regular part of our inventory of cultivars.
Spanish Roja - Ron England's Favorite. - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Killarney Red - Full, Rich Taste - Grows Well.
- Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
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German Red - Great Classic Strong German Garlic.
- We hope to have some available in 2010. -
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Polish Carpathian - Garlic that Gives Polish Dills that great Taste. - We hope to have some in 2010. -
Amish Rocambole - Garlic with a zing. - Order now for delivery in August/September 2010. -
Purple Italian Rocambole - A Northern Garlic with rich flavor but not overly hot. - Order now forshipment in late summer/early fall 2010. -
Italian Easy Peel - A rich yet mellow Rocambole Garlic. - May be available in 2010. -
Korean Red Hot AKA Korean Red Rocambole - rich flavored garlic with a real zing. - May be available in 2010. -
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As you may know, elephant garlic is not a true garlic; it a leek.Many people think of it as garlic so we grow it. All true garlic species are botanically classified as Allium Sativum and elephant garlic is Allium Ampeloprasum, formerly Allium Gigantum.
Elephant garlic is worthy of great respect because it is extremely hardy and re-seeds itself every year assuring you of many future crops with minimal effort. Elephant garlic is generally pretty resistant to many things that bother true garlic much to the gardeners delight.
It can produce about as much allicin as milder true garlics and its giant cloves make it easy to prepare, much to the cook's delight.
Elephant garlic can store for about a year at room temp - wow!
Large elephant garlic is about twice the size of the
largest real garlics or larger and has a milder taste but with a sharp
onion-like edge to it and a distinctive aftertaste. They average five monstrously
large cloves that are somewhat yellowish compared the milky whiteness of
true garlic cloves. It also has far less allicin potential than real
garlic but grows extremely clean and disease free and does not seem
to be bothered by insects. In our experience, it stores very hard and
clean much longer than real garlic (even when separated into individual
cloves, it will store about a year at room temp).
Unlike real garlic it produces bottom bulbils called corms that
have very hard shells with sharp pointed tops and they store even longer
than the bulbs. The corms are attached to the bottoms of the bulbs
but grow up their sides and are often incorporated into the bulb wrappers
several layers deep. The bulb wrappers on elephant garlic are extremely
white and they cure out to be very thin and flaky and are intact only
on freshly harvested bulbs. After a few months they seem to evaporate,
leaving bare or almost bare bulbs that have a rather rough look but
it does not seem to affect their storability much, only their attractiveness.
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Click Here to learn about Porcelain Garlics
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This year, 2010, all orders for bulk garlic (all the same kind of garlic) must be placed direct with individual market gardeners. |

This Gardener's marketplace is like your local farmer's market.
If you buy from a gardener and later cancel that order and buy from a different gardener, the credit card processing gateway still charges Gourmet Garlic Gardens the full processing
fee plus an additional fee for processing the cancellation and also it places an additional clerical burden on us
so, regrettably, we must charge a 10% cancellation fee when processing the cancellation because that's about what it costs us.
My advice is to look around among the various market gardeners and decide what to buy from whom and then place your orders and stick with the gardeners you have chosen.
If you would like to try a little garlic from several different gardeners, you can order a sampler assortment and request particular garlics from specific growers.
Click here to check out our sampler Assortments.
When using your credit/debit card to buy direct from different gardeners, a separate order is required for each gardener.
You may buy as many different kinds of garlic as you want from any gardener on any order but each grower requires a separate order.
If you want to order garlic from more than one grower, a separate order must be placed with each gardener.

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How Our Garlics are Grown
Some of our growers are Certified Organic and some are Certified Naturally Grown, which we regard as equal to Certified Organic in every meaningful way but without all the bureaucratic rigamarole. All our market gardeners grow organically/sustainably but not all want to be certified and are among the best available sources of sustainable/organic Garlic We do not allow growers who use synthetic petroleum-based fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides or herbacides to participate in our farmers market.
All garlic in our farmers market is grown in the USA, no imports allowed.
This farmers market is strictly for small-scale American market gardeners/growers.


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[ Our Home Page ] [ Online Catalog ] [ Garlic Overview ] [ 40 Varieties ] [ Growing Garlic ] [ Cooking with Garlic ] [ Chemistry of Garlic ] [ Garlic Pills, Etc. ] [ Health Benefits ] [ Links ] [ FAQs ] [ About Us ] [ How to Order ]
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