Garlic cultivars

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. There are two main types of garlic, hard neck and soft neck. You’d think that was it, you grow hard neck garlic where it’s colder and soft necked down here where we are. But within those categories, there are lots of cultivars to choose from. This is the time to plant garlic here, but don’t use garlic from the grocery store, it may have been treated not to sprout and have some diseases. There are two main types of soft necked garlic with apparently subtle but important differences in flavor and differences in color. Nootka Rose, what a lovely name, has very pungent taste, and is great for braiding. Martha Stewart’s favorite, apparently, is Inchelium Red, which is milder. Probably need breath mints or perhaps mint leaves after eating either one.