Garlic Variety – Large Russian Garlic

Giant garlic, massive cloves, easy peel, mild flavour. Great for those who like a mild garlic flavour and don’t like peeling smaller garlic cloves. Officially a leek. We use it as you would any garlic/ onions/leeks. Good storage.

Available from January 2nd onward.

We also supply you with a growing guide including useful hints and tips to give you the best chance to grow your own awesome garlic.

We plant, weed and harvest our garlic by hand. This takes extra human labour, and supports other peoples livelihoods that help us on our farm. We grow our garlic organically, using SA Composters Certified Organic Compost, Organic fertilizer, and organic liquid fertilizers.

We weed our garlic by hand, usually every 1-2 weeks from planting time May/June to harvest time (November/December). We rotate where we plant our garlic in a different patch each year and plant other crops such as flowers, brassicas and green manures when we are not growing garlic in those beds. We have a movable chicken system that we put over the areas before we plant the garlic to help weed and fertilise the beds.

We save our own seed, and it gets better each year adapting to our environment and systems. We have seen the soil improve hugely in soil life, structure and water holding capacity over the 5 years we have been growing here @Cockatoo Creek Farm, and look forward to seeing it improve further.

You will taste the difference.