I hope interesting is not bad! All the varieties I got were reported to do well in my climate (east coast 6b) so not picked by any particulars other than that. I do not know if I got red or white Dunjanski - it’s listed as “purple stripe”. Here is the page: Dunganski Garlic.
YES! the flowers are great. They look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. Ramps are also tasty. Also, they are a flower I can grow (other than daffodils) that the deer don’t attack. As long as you’re not expecting a strong garlic flavor they’re pretty good. Otherwise you’d be disappointed. They are good roasted as a spread or more like you’d use a leek in other dishes.
They do have some exclusive varieties that are pretty good. I have a “Flat Wonderful” peach which is pretty great - also no longer on patent. I’d keep it around just for the foliage which is really nice looking.
Glad to hear your tree did well! Along with the sad garlic I got some dead plants which didn’t get refunded or replaced. They were making it very hard and I gave up. So I’m pretty wary of them.
doesanyone have any suggestions of elephant garlic for zone 7a/b? I’m a huge leek fan and i just found out theyre not actually garlic and in the leek family so i may give it a shot
As to the thread, I am actually trying out sweet garleek this year
Ive contacted different sellers of dunganski in the US and so far none even knew there was different sub species.
As far as a home grower is concerned i cant imagine there will be any difference.
Here is link to Australian seller:
I am doing elephant garlic for the first time this year, 9b south Louisiana. It is not for the garlic flavor, it’s barely there, it is for the flowers and its reproduction cycle of producing corms. It is good in a crawfish boil smashed into a boiled potato, but so is regular garlic!
Not a disease, but allium leaf miner has become a major problem here in the Finger Lakes. Native to Europe, it was first detected in 2015 near Lancaster, PA, and it has spread north and south ever since, at least as far as Virginia and Massachusetts. It can cause deformities and other significant cosmetic injury through eye-laying punctures and larva feeding. We learned of it from friends about 10 miles away who reported it in their leeks, destroying a cash crop for them. We discovered it in our garlic two years later, but minor miner damage. Crop rotation and removing plant debris (hundreds of feed sacks full of it) has helped since then.
from time to time i buy garlic from the store and its just 1 big clove. do any varieties routinely produce this way? ive always prefered less peeling lol. an example pic from the internet:
PAT COOKS: Single Clove Garlic, A Growing Experiment i found this reference, which says if you plant the bulbils you get this single clove stuff.i dont see the update, but they then planted some regular garlic in april and it didnt bulb out, which sounds about right as well. Im thinking i will try this bulbis method in a fw years (not planting garlic this year, so no bulbils unless someone donates to me) seems very desirable to me! much nicer for roasting
