sadly not for harvesting, but planting !
Popped out to a food festival during my lunchtime and fell across a Garlic Farm stall selling various garlicky items including 'seed garlic'. Yippee. So I bought two bulbs - confusingly though the man on the stall said that the variety is 'Isle of Wight' ... but there isn't an 'Isle of Wight' variety right ? I think I'll go back tomorrow and quiz him again !! It was a white variety, so I'll have to keep my eye open for a purple variety. Planning to plant it September / October :)
Lots of the garlics come from the Isle of Wight garlic farm but aren't just called that they are all something Wight
ReplyDeleteI was just about to say what Sue just said!!
ReplyDeleteThe Isle of Wight garlic farm is a great visit and does grow fantastic garlic, so I'd get some more if I were you! :-)
well they didn't have many yesterday and today the queue was too long for me to wait during my lunchbreak - but I've got two lovely bulbs and if I can get a purple one from somewhere else then I think I'll be a happy bunny :) I appear to have missed the all important information that it was indeed THE garlic farm from IofW ... not just a garlic farm !!! It's all in the detail haha. Cost me £1 each ... maybe I should have bought out his whole stock on reflection ...
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