Details

• Type: ophioscorodon, or hardneck, garlic
• Color:
  • Leaf: deep green or blue-green; moderately spreading and fan shaped
  • Bulb skin: off-white with varying amounts of streaks in degrees of light to moderate purple; kind of coarse textured
• Maturity: midseason (ie, after artichoke garlic)
• Size:
  • Bulb: fairly symmetrical, flat globe shaped, some irregularity; 2 to 2 3/4 inches
  • Cloves: 6-11 per bulb, but can have 3-14; plum, if well-grown, but tall, narrow, wedged shaped when many cloves per bulb; dull-colored brownish with red-purple blush
  • Flower Stalk: 3-5 feet when uncoiled; distinctively coils in 1-3 tight loops
  • Bulbil: almost always present unless stressed or in mild winters; umbel forms at tip of stalk; generally 10-40, usually large
• Yield:  6-11 cloves per bulb, but can have 3-14
• Taste: Exceptional flavor; Rocambole are said to be the best tasting of all garlics when well-grown and locally adapted
• Disease or Environmental Tolerance:
  • Soil & climate: best in cold winter climes; require fertile soil; generally fussy about soil
  • May develop yellow leaf tips easily in poor or unbalanced soils or during cool wet periods

Notes:

• tightly coiled flower stalks
• Most common hardneck grown in US
• Harder to grow
• Shorter shelf life (storage life)
• Dormant: 3-4 months
• Storage: 3-4 months, but 6-8 possible if well-grown & cured

Sources: (where to buy)

Results from My Garden with Rocambole Garlic:

I haven’t tried this one yet…