Glazed Purple Stripe garlic

Purple wrappers with a gold or silver sheen.

Good for roasting whole heads and most plants per pound of seed.

By winter

Frozen hard for weeks. Handles hard winters. Its wrappers are fragile, so harvest on time.
Frost, then thaw, repeatedly. Grows where frost comes and goes. Harvest on time.
Rare or brief frost. Not a good fit. Try Artichoke, Silverskin or Creole.

At a glance

Neck: Hardneck
Keeps: About 5 months
Flavor: Holds its flavor through cooking, so it suits baking.
Braiding: No
Harvest: Mid to late
Seed per pound: About 60 plants per pound of seed.

Varieties to order

Purple Glazer

Hardneck · Early harvest

Order from Filaree Hood River

What each supplier says

Group: Glazed Purple Stripe (Filaree)
Glazed Purple Stripe (Hood River)
Neck: hard (Hood River)
Cloves per bulb: 8 to 10 (Hood River)
Per pound: 5 to 8 bulbs/lb, 50 to 60 cloves/lb (Hood River)
Flavor: Good raw, sweet cooked (Hood River)
Harvest: Early (Hood River)

Blanak

Hardneck · Keeps 5 to 7 months · Mid harvest

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What each supplier says

Group: Glazed Purple Stripe (Filaree)
Neck: hard (Filaree)
Cloves per bulb: 6 to 10 (Filaree)
Per pound: 5 to 7 bulbs/lb (Filaree)
Keeps: 5 to 7 months (Filaree)
Flavor: Rich, Complex (Filaree)
Climate: Cold winters (Filaree)
Harvest: Mid (Filaree)

Red Rezan

Hardneck · Keeps 5 to 7 months · Mid harvest

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What each supplier says

Group: Glazed Purple Stripe (Filaree)
Neck: hard (Filaree)
Cloves per bulb: 6 to 10 (Filaree)
Per pound: 5 to 7 bulbs/lb (Filaree)
Keeps: 5 to 7 months (Filaree)
Flavor: Strong, Smooth (Filaree)
Climate: Cold winters (Filaree)
Harvest: Mid (Filaree)

What the catalogs say

Royal purple wrappers tinged with gold or silver. Boundary warns the wrappers are fragile, which makes harvest timing more critical here than in any other group. Only two strains are widely sold. Underrepresented in the USDA genetic study and not clearly differentiated, so the group rests on morphology. Varieties include Purple Glazer and Vekak.

Clove count is contradicted. Hood River gives 9 to 12 elongated cloves; Filaree describes fewer, smaller and less elongated cloves than standard Purple Stripe. The cell is left blank.