Please note, as I shift gears to focus on two final festivals, all new orders will be shipped on October 4th at the soonest, and October 11th at the latest! Only garlic currently in stock is pre-busted cloves of Pskem River (click banner here), or pre-busted Shandong Purple (find in the Asiatic family). Thanks!

Metechi heirloom garlic bulbs

Metechi

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Metechi had the latest harvest date of all garlic in 2019, was able to wait til August for harvest. In 2020 and 2021, also a later harvest, which helps protect it from lost yields due to June droughts. Tough in the field and tasty in the kitchen, Metechi is a roaster that's great in mashed potatoes or squash.

I've seen it listed as a Marbled elsewhere, but I feel it's quite similar to other known Purple Stripes...worth noting that it is a possible mis-assignment. The proper delineation of Marbleds from regular Purple Stripes is a running issue in the garlic-growing community. I strongly believe it's a Purple Stripe, conforming closely to its relatives, Hungarian Purple Stripe and Chesnok Red / Shvelisi.

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