Purple stripe garlic

(1 customer review)

Good ‘all purpose’ garlic. (H)

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Description

purple stripe garlic

Key Facts

  • Ideal for Russian and Ukrainian recipes
  • Moderately hot garlic flavour.
  • Easy to grow.
  • Takes about 3 to 4 months to grow
  • Where to buy garlic cloves

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Background

Quick Summar

Purple Stripe Garlic is great for growing if you like a moderately hot garlic ideal for all types of recipes.

  • Ideal location – balcony, patio or vegetable garden. (Or possibly unused spare room with extra light)
  • For best results plant in Autumn in cold climates or even better put in a fridge for 2 weeks before planting.
  • Moderately hot garlic flavour.
  • Ideal for Russian and Ukrainian recipes (As well as items like garlic bread or chicken dishes).
  • Days from seed to harvest – about 90 to 120 (3 to 4 months)
  • About 60 cm high

Typical Recipes

Because this garlic has such a nice flavour it’s ideal in all kinds of recipes – where instead of simply using ‘garlic’ you use the more intense, better tasting option.

Example recipes

How to grow purple stripe garlic

This type of 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.

They are ideal for areas with very cold winters (such as the UK, Northern Europe, North America, etc.) so they are dormant and then start in the spring i.e. ideal for outdoors, vegetable garden plots, etc.

There are a number of different varieties of Purple Stripe garlic types Red Hardneck

  • High germination rate seeds
  • Krandasger red hardneck garlic bulbs – 2 medium bulbs
  • Package contains 1 set of seeds
  • Picture is an indication of kind only

Hardiness Zone 3-9 Allium Sativum Ophioscorodon ‘Krandasger Red Seed Garlic’ Purple Stripe Type A Purple Stripe Garlic That Can Get Huge. Gets About 6-8 Plump Cloves Per Bulb. Wrappers Can Be Red Or White

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1 review for Purple stripe garlic

  1. Minze Vries

    Simply so much better than softneck garlic varieties – great & very easy to grow

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