Description
Key Facts
- Often used in French kitchens, ideal for slow cookers.
- Sweet and sharp
- Easy to grow.
- Takes about 3 to 4 months to grow
- Where to buy garlic cloves
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Background
Messidrome garlic (Also known as French Garlic) is the type of garlic very often used in French kitchens.
- Ideal location – balcony, patio or vegetable garden. (Or possibly unused spare room with extra light)
- Sweet and sharp with a regular garlic taste.
- Ideal for French recipes and especially good in slow cookers.
- Days from seed to harvest – about 90 to 120 (3 to 4 months)
- About 60 cm high
It is the type of garlic that is very often used in French kitchens, and ideal for use in slow cookers.
Typical recipes:
How to grow Messidrome garlic
The French Messidrome Garlic is very easy to grow, but (like all garlics) it does tend to smell when growing – you won’t notice it outside (terrace, balcony, etc.) but will notice it indoors.
The skins are a nice off-white with a purple blush and it produces 8-10 cloves per head.
Sweet and sharp with a regular garlic taste.
- Soil: light sandy, rich fertile
- Hardiness: hardy
- Height: 60cm (24in)
- Spread: 15cm (6in) Softneck garlic.
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More information
Minze Vries –
Of the softneck type garlics this is the best one to grow – lovely flavour and great as an ingredient
Martin Wild –
The best garlic I have grown. great flavour, small number of good sized cloves. I plant 4 or 5 cloves in big pots/tubs in my greenhouse over winter with salad leaves on top like mizuna etc. then put them out mid spring.