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Polish Hardneck The Porcelain and Turban Garlics Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About GARLIC!! The Porcelain and Turban horticultural groups of garlic were basicallyunknown in the US until very recently. They are both very distinctive, but for different reasons. They are both hardneck varieties, so it is essential to plant them in the fall. The Porcelains can best be described with one word – impressive. The plants are huge, with incredibly thick stems up to 1 inch in diameter and statuesque. They can reach a height of 7 feet, but mine never have. My Porcelains areusually about 3 feet tall. You should probably leave more distance between these plants – 9 inches between cloves and 2 feet between rows. Without a doubt, though, the most impressive characteristic of the Porcelains

The Marbled Purple Stripe Garlic – Pskem The Most Famous of the Heirloom Garlics - The Striped Garlics Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About GARLIC!! Few Americans have a great depth of understanding or knowledge of garlic. The garlic they encounter in the grocery store, usually California Select, orthe braided garlics they purchase at harvest festivals are they garlics that they know. Americans who have frequented garlic festivals have a slightly broader knowledge, and when they think of Heirloom Garlic, they are reminded of the striking, purple streaked bulbs that belong to the Striped Garlic family of cultivars. In America, the Striped Garlics are synonymous with Heirloom Garlic. The Striped Garlics comprise a numerous collection of cultivars which have been organized into three groups: Glazed Purple Stripe, Marbled Purple Stripe