White with excellent flavour for all culinary uses. Softneck variety. Plant October-January. 250g pack (10-11 cloves per bulb).
Virus-free French variety – bulbs come from virus-free stock, ensuring that they’ll grow into healthier plants and produce larger harvests! Softneck types – the majority of modern varieties. This type, despite its name, stores for longer and has more numerous but smaller cloves.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re growing them in pots on the patio or in a half-acre vegetable patch – either way the rewards are great! Now an essential part of so many kitchen gardens, with excellent health benefits (lowering blood pressure, fat and cholesterol levels and combating infections). And they couldn’t be easier to grow – simply plant the garlic cloves in autumn, and they’ll be ready to lift and dry next July!
Growing Information
Plant garlic in rows in any well drained soil in full sun. It is important that the soil does not become waterlogged so incorporate plenty of well rotted manure or garden compost to improve drainage and feed the soil. On particularly heavy soils, grow garlic in raised beds. Carefully split the bulb into individual cloves. Plant each clove at a depth of 2cm (1″) below the surface of the soil and 10cm (4″) apart, leaving 45cm (18″) between each row.
