Details

• Type: hard neck porcelain (continental) garlic
• Color:
  • creamy white/shiny thick white wrapper
  • rose skinned cloves
• Maturity: ?
• Size: “big & fat”
  • 2″ and larger diameter bulbs
  • 4-7 large cloves per bulb
• Yield: ?
• Taste:
  • Heat: 5 (very strong)
  • Good for salsa
  • “one of the hottest garlics”
  • “full-bodied & strong; intense but flavorful”
  • “raw flavor is intense and sweet, with a creamy finish”
  • “heat that builds to a late surprise kick in the back of the throat”
  • “preferred variety for eating fresh, pickling, or roasting”
• Disease or Environmental Tolerance: 
  • “Disease resistant”
• Storage Quality: good
  • “long-storing”

Notes:

Sources: (where to buy)

• Peaceful Valley Farm: $17.99 for 1 lb seed stock

Results from My Garden:

• 2010-2011: 3 heads from PVFS (planted 10 cloves)
  • Creamy white wrappers, Rose colored cloves
  • 5 large cloves per head
  • planted 10/13/10 at 4″ spacing in rows 14″ apart
  • first time (and first variety) that stem & bulb nematode showed up (5/9/11)
    • lost 6 of 10 to s&b
  • harvested 4 heads on 5/18/11 (217 days) (no weight recorded)
• 2013-2014: 1 lb seed stock (PVFS) = 8.5 heads = 36 cloves
  • planted early November (11/5) at 6″ spacing
  • s&b nematodes showed up in mid-March (confirmed with microscope)
  • harvested 6/14/14 (217 days:
    • 22 (out of 36) heads = 1.6 lbs (~1.1 oz each)
    • 61% survival rate