The following garlic varieties are still available.

Order at mccluregarden@gmail.com and pick-up at 5510-26th Avenue NE on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10-3:00pm when your order is ready.

Purple Stripe - The oldest group of the garlic family and closest to its wild origins. These garlics are very flavorful and good at retaining flavour after cooking. The plants are smaller, with more slender leaves, but the bulbs can grow quite large.

Belarus (Early) Starts off sweet and mild and the heat builds to medium. Lingering, warm taste.
Chesnok Red (Mid to Late) Very productive. Can grow quite large if growing conditions are favorable. More cloves per bulb so cloves are closer to regular garlic clove sizes. Good for roasting.
Persian Star (Mid) Produced very well. Has more cloves per bulb. Building heat. Very striking looking cloves. Spicy raw and good for roasting.

Glazed Purple Stripe – The bulbs have a glazed appearance with a metallic sheen. The cloves are shiny and more squat than the Purple Stripes. Glazed purple stripes have good flavour and bake up sweet.

Purple Glazer (Early to Mid) A favorite for eating raw. It’s fairly mild and the flavour and heat develops gently over time and lingers for a while. Adds a subtle richness to cooked foods.

Rocambole – Prized for flavour. These garlics produce squat cloves that peel very easily but don’t store very long. They produce scapes with 1-3 tight coils.

Russian Red (Late) Available in rounds only. A highly aromatic garlic with deep layers of flavours and a sweet finish. This garlic can grow very large in good growing conditions.
Ontario Purple Trillium (Early) Hot, direct garlic flavour that does not linger long.

Porcelain – Big, brawny plants with scapes that can grow over 5 feet tall if you leave them on. The cloves tend to be few (4-6) and large. The bulbs are usually white and symmetrical which gives them an elegant look even though they are hefty. The flavours are strong but not necessarily hot. These large plants will produce better if given more space.

German White (Mid) Best enjoyed raw. Mild to medium heat. Large bulbs with very few cloves.
Music (Mid to Late) Very large cloves (4-6). The most commonly grown hardneck variety in Canada. Brought to Canada in the 80’s from Italy.
Northern Quebec (Mid to Late) Available in bulbils only. Hot. Grows easily.
Yugoslavian (Mid to Late) Available in bulbils only. Hot. Heirloom commonly grown in B.C.


Unclassified Hardneck Garlics

Fireball (Mid to Late) The name refers to the colourful bulb wrappers. It’s hot, but not too hot and the heat is short-lived and there’s very little aftertaste.
Kazakhstan (Very Early) Available in bulbils only. Smells great and has a hot, lively, garlicky flavour. Blazingly fast to mature so harvest sooner rather than later.