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Seed Garlic: Russian Giant
Seed Garlic: Russian Giant
Seed Garlic: Russian Giant
Seed Garlic: Russian Giant
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Seed Garlic: Russian Giant

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THIS IS A PRE-ORDER, SHIPPING APPROXIMATELY SEPTEMBER 20TH. We will hold your ENTIRE order until then. Super early frost? Need to plant asap? Put a note on your order. We ship by frost date, Northern & Interior AK orders are always first.

Bulk Discount: 10% off when you order 3+ total pounds, any combination, automatically taken at checkout. Sold by the 1/2 pound. 

Graded by size:
Larger bulbs = less plants, bigger cloves. 
Smaller bulbs = more plants, smaller cloves, and will size up annually if you save your largest, best, and brightest for replanting. 

Grown by Farragut Farm in a remote, roadless bay about 25 miles north of Petersburg in Southeast Alaska. They are uncertified organic, caring for and improving the soil everyday. 

Russian Giant is a Marbled Purple Stripe garlic with a rich flavor that is very hot when raw. Very large heads with fat cloves are great for beginners and new growers can achieve first year success more easily with Russian Giant than with most other varieties. The heads are broken into 4 to 8 equally sized huge and very pretty cloves. No small cloves to peel makes this a cook's favorite. It pulls a bit harder in heavy soils than is ideal for commercial production but is a wonderful variety for the home gardener. Great storage. 

Sold by the 1/2 pound. Seed garlic is a clone of the parent plant. You will receive what you see pictured.  4-8 cloves per bulb, 6-8 bulbs per pound. Approximately 24-64 plants per pound. If planting 6" apart in a grid pattern, approximately 50 plants will fill a 4 x 4' bed. 

FROM THE GROWERS

This Farragut Farm garlic seed is propagated from bulbils, the small aerial cloves produced by a mature garlic scape. Each bulbil is grown out for two years before it is harvested as a full size, seed quality bulb. Seed garlic grown out from bulbils has the distinct advantage that it is more likely to be free of soil borne diseases.

PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS

Keep your garlic at room temperature in a well aerated place until it is time to plant. Do not store garlic in the refrigerator. Keep bulbs whole until just before planting. 

Sow in the fall just after the first or second light frost of the season but while the soil is still workable. Plant into well-drained soil. Waterlogged soil will cause rot. 

Plant at least 6" between your cloves, 8" is even better. Garlic is a heavy feeder and you will get much larger bulbs if you provide it with lots of growing room and nice fertile soil.

Place the end where the cloves was attached to the bulb down 2-3" deep . Mulch with 1-3" of leaves, straw, seaweed, etc to keep soil insulated until spring.