Thought I'd try my luck at garlic having read the discussions in this group.

Having established that it's best to get the garlic bulbs for autumn
planting from a garden centre, I happened to be passing one today and in I
went.
Found the garlic on display just inside the entrance. Then disaster. There
was a choice. Help!

Five varieties with different strengths of flavour.


Cristo (strong)
Iberian Wight (full)
Thermidrome (full)
Lautrec Wight (creamy and smooth)
Germidour (mild)


Any recommendations?
Any to avoid?


mark

"mark" wrote
Thought I'd try my luck at garlic having read the discussions in this
group.

Having established that it's best to get the garlic bulbs for autumn
planting from a garden centre, I happened to be passing one today and in I
went.
Found the garlic on display just inside the entrance. Then disaster. There
was a choice. Help!

Five varieties with different strengths of flavour.


Cristo (strong)
Iberian Wight (full)
Thermidrome (full)
Lautrec Wight (creamy and smooth)
Germidour (mild)


Any recommendations?
Any to avoid?

We grew Thermidrome and Germidour last season and had an excellent crop of
large bulbs. Still looking for Thermidrome this year, can't find it
anywhere. Wouldn't describe Germidour as mild either, but then everyone says
our onions are lethal so perhaps it's our soil.
We tried a "Wight" some years ago and it was dreadful so have avoided
anything with that name ever since.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"mark" wrote
Thought I'd try my luck at garlic having read the discussions in this
group.

Having established that it's best to get the garlic bulbs for autumn
planting from a garden centre, I happened to be passing one today and in
I went.
Found the garlic on display just inside the entrance. Then disaster.
There was a choice. Help!

Five varieties with different strengths of flavour.


Cristo (strong)
Iberian Wight (full)
Thermidrome (full)
Lautrec Wight (creamy and smooth)
Germidour (mild)


Any recommendations?
Any to avoid?

We grew Thermidrome and Germidour last season and had an excellent crop of
large bulbs. Still looking for Thermidrome this year, can't find it
anywhere. Wouldn't describe Germidour as mild either, but then everyone
says our onions are lethal so perhaps it's our soil.
We tried a "Wight" some years ago and it was dreadful so have avoided
anything with that name ever since.

--


The Lautrec Wight only had one bulb in the packet, the others all had three.
All cost £2.49/pk
So that's narrowed it down to three!

mark

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 Bob Hobden wrote:

We tried a "Wight" some years ago and it was dreadful so have avoided
anything with that name ever since.

Do you think it's a case of association? ;-)

David

--
David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
http://rance.org.uk

"David Rance" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 Bob Hobden wrote:

We tried a "Wight" some years ago and it was dreadful so have avoided
anything with that name ever since.

Do you think it's a case of association? ;-)

David




More 'poison tongues'

--
Mike

The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association
www.rneba.org.uk
Luxury Self Catering on the Isle of Wight?
www.shanklinmanormews.co.uk

"mark" wrote in message
o.uk...
Thought I'd try my luck at garlic having read the discussions in this
group.

Having established that it's best to get the garlic bulbs for autumn
planting from a garden centre, I happened to be passing one today and in I
went.
Found the garlic on display just inside the entrance. Then disaster. There
was a choice. Help!

Five varieties with different strengths of flavour.


Cristo (strong)
Iberian Wight (full)
Thermidrome (full)
Lautrec Wight (creamy and smooth)
Germidour (mild)


Any recommendations?
Any to avoid?


mark




I've gone for Thermidrome.
Thank's Bob.

mark

"mark" wrote:

Having established that it's best to get the garlic bulbs for autumn
planting from a garden centre, I happened to be passing one today and in I
went.

I can't advise you on varieties, since names vary so much (often for the
same thing!). By all means, get a good known variety to start, but then
re-plant some of your own next year. There's a wide belief that garlic
gets acclimated to where it's grown, so it will do better in successive
years. Plus, not having to buy any more planting stock!

Yours in bad breath,


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G