Description
Allium sativum – Garlic – The bulb is the common garlic is quite like an onion, its tight papery sheath enclosing several to many ‘cloves’. The cloves pungent flavor is valued around the world. It bears dainty pink to white flowers produced in small umbels on stalks 18” tall. Garlic takes up to 5 or 6 months to mature, harvest when leaves turn yellow.
They prefer to grow in open sunny position in fertile well-drained, weed free soil.
Prone to onion fly, stem eelworm, rust, onion white rot, bulb rots, White rot, mildew, smut and various fungal leaf spots thrips.
Zones 7-10
