Our Garlic

Can you ever have enough garlic? We don’t think so! We grow ten different varieties of delicious hardneck garlic. These are: Amish Rocambole, Georgian Crystal, German White, Krasnodar Red, Music, Persian Star, Red Grain, Romanian Red, Russian Giant, and Ukrainian Rose.

We begin our garlic season in June when we harvest garlic scapes (flower stalks) from all of the plants. We do this so the garlic will puts its energy into making fat, tasty bulbs instead of creating seed. In mid-July, we head back out to the garlic beds and dig the garlic plants from the ground. We then hang the plants in the barn to cure for three weeks before we cut them down and tidy them up for selling and for seed.

The bulbs that we save for seed are placed in our storage cooler until October when we bring them out, separate them into individual cloves, and plant the cloves out in the field. They then lay nice and cozy in the soil, under a thick layer of straw mulch, until the following spring when each clove sprouts, eventually growing into a full-sized bulb, starting the process all over again.

You can find our garlic at our booth on Saturday mornings at the Rochester Farmers’ Market starting in mid-August. We will also be at the Minnesota Garlic Festival on Saturday, August 15, 2026 in Hutchinson.

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