Availability Updated January 31, 2009
2009 Garlic, Leek, and Onion
(Amaryllis Family)
[ Garlic | Leek | Onion | Perennial Onion ]
ORGANIC CERTIFICATION UPDATE: Next year we will be listing everything that we grow here at our farm as Certified Organic. If the item is being offered as CERTIFIED ORGANIC, it will have an OG after the price of the seeds.
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2009 Garlic
Note: We are no longer sending out garlic plants. We are shipping only bulblets. You may order these on the seed order form. Please remember with bulblets that not every bulblet will grow. We try to send plenty of extras.
Marie's Special: This very special garlic comes to us from our neighbor who first provided us with the start several years ago. The garlic is the topsetting kind that produces numerous small bulblets at the tops of the stalks in August which in turn can be planted for more plants the following season. The bulbs on this type are small but very flavorful. I have had great success by planting the bulblets in the Fall and transplanting the young plants in the Spring. Pkt. (about 300 topsets) for $3.00 (postpaid). (Fall shipment only.)
Old Homestead: An heirloom topsetting garlic sent to us by Tom Greenwood of Oklahoma. Produces much larger bulbs than does Marie's Special Garlic, but does very well when planted from the topsetting bulblets. Pkt. (about 200 topsets) for $3.00 (postpaid). (Fall shipment only.)
Moano Special: A topsetting garlic producing medium sized, very strong flavored bulbs. Pkt. (75 topsets) for $3.00 (postpaid). (Limit 1 Pkt.) (Fall shipment only.)
2009 Leek
Leeks culture: Culture is same as for onions.
Ester Cook: 120 days. Very tall, thin, white leek. Excellent quality. Pkt. $1.75 OG
Giant Musselburg: 120 days. Scottish variety dating to 1834. Thick stalk, self-blanching. Pkt. $2.00
Scotland: 90 days. Shorter stalks. Good variety for over-wintering. (Unavailable for 2009)
2009 Onion (Seed)
Onion culture: Best suited to being planted direct seeded as soon as possible in the Spring. Keep weed-free. Thin and transplant later as needed.
Borettana Cipollini: 100 days. An old Italian heirloom producing flat, yellow skinned onions. Unique shape, good textured flesh. Pkt. $2.00
Red Wethersfield: 130 days. Large deep red slicing onion. (Sold Out for 2009)
White Portugal: 105 days. Best used as a green onion. Pkt. $1.50
Yellow Sweet Spanish: 115 days. Large, yellow globe, average keeper onions will store well until January or February. Pkt. $1.25
2009 Onion (Perennial)
Egyptian Winter: A very nice treat in the early Spring when they are frequently the first things edible from the garden. This is a topsetting type, where you harvest the topsets in late August, separate them, and then plant them. The roots grow slowly all winter and you eat the tender shoots as mild green onions first thing in the Spring. The topsets will be shipped in late August. (Rabbits destroyed our entire parent stock in March, 2007. Hope to be back in the catalog for 2010.)