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Garlic Seedling #1

Variety: Marbled Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Late
Maximum Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From David Cavagnaro. SSE 165

Garlic Seedling #2

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.3 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From David Cavagnaro. SSE 166

Georgia Homestead

Variety: Not a Garlic!! Harvest Date: Late
Maximum Head Weight: 4.2 oz.

From Hal Bridges of Midville, Georgia. This is actually an Elephant 'garlic' which is a type of leek. However, it has been accessioned in the SSE collections as a garlic. SSE 282.

German Brown

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2007 Picture

From Filaree Farm, this strain was mixed in with German Red, but clove colors have a distinctive brown hue, rather than red; SSE 296

German Extra Hardy

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2007 Picture

From Doug Browne, Wellspring Farm, Little Falls, New York. SSE 229

German Porcelain

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2007 Picture

From Grace Reynolds of Hillside Organic Farm, Troy, New York; SSE 339

German Red

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

John Swenson obtained this strain from S&H Organic Acres of Watsonville, California in 1981; Filaree Farms claims it comes from German farmers in Idaho; SSE stock is from Mary Schultz of Monroe, Washington. USDA PI 540358; SSE 164

German White

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.5 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Melvin Lee Bristol of Sherman, Connecticut. SSE 195

Gigante Morado

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Chilean variety bought at a Chicago Hispanic market by John Swenson in 2000. SSE 204

Gomecari

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.4 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected from Republic of Georgia by Dr. Pater Hanelt, via John Swenson. USDA PI 615417; SSE 31

Gravel Switch

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 0.7 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Gravel Switch, Kentucky via Pat Williams of HortIdeas. SSE 2

Greek Artichoke

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Richard Smith of Kettle Falls, Washington. This is supposed to be an artichoke variety. SSE 233

GSF-50

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.5 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Doug Browne, Wellspring Farm, Little Falls, New York. SSE 230

GSF-65 (aka GSF #65 Rocambole)

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Garlic Seed Foundation. SSE 231

GSF-79 (aka Chrysalis Purple)

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Marcia Halligan and Steve Adams of Chrysalis farm of Viroqua, Wisconsin. SSE 232

Guatemalan

Variety: Creole Harvest Date: Late
Maximum Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Filaree Farm. Perhaps the same as Chester Aaron’s Guatemalan Ikeda which originated from Janet & Margaret Ikeda from the village of Aguacatan in Huehuetenango Province, Guatemala; SSE 154

Himalayan

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz.

From John Swenson. SSE 344

Himalayan Red

Variety: Middle Eastern? Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.2 oz.

Obtained in 1980 above 8000 feet in Nepal, from Filaree Farms. SSE 61.

Hokkaido-zairi (aka Hokkaido, Hikkalda Zairai)

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 1.4 oz.

From Kazumitsu Tsutsui, Kagawa, Japan, used to be grown in northern Japan. Alternative spellings first showed up in 1999 SSE Yearbook; SSE 387

Hungarian Purple Stripe

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.5 oz. 2007 Picture

From a friend of Ken Carter, Enosburg Falls, Vermont; SSE 300

 
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