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Ok, I am intending to place an order for some garlic for overwintering and was wanting all you knowlegable folks input...

What is your favourite variety, why and where do you purchase it from?

cheers

Jelly Welly, hope you don't mind my adding to this, but what's the best way to grow them? any hints and tips appreciated?

Kathi

Check out The Garlic Farm. Have watched the threads over the last year and Solent Wight seems to be a fave variety...

http://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/shopgarlic.asp

I like Marco, a hardneck (seedheading) garlic which is a fantastically easy to peel garlic. It doesn't get that large (so I grow lots!) but with hardly any of those tiddly little cloves from the centre of bought garlics which tend to get chucked in this house!

And, as I've mentioned before, you can use the scapes too...

moonbells

Thanx for the replies.

Moonbells - Where do you get marco from?

the Garlic Farm isn't cheap, but I can't recommend it too highly; I grew two of their varieties this year; Solent Wight and Albigensian Wight. Both gave me large, tasty bulbs. The Albigensian bulbs were bigger overall, but that could simply be the bed they were in.