All varieties
Marbled Purple Stripe garlic
Fewer, fatter cloves than Purple Stripe.
Good for fast peeling, roasting whole heads and raw heat.
By winter
- Frozen hard for weeks. Made for hard winters. Cure it carefully in a wet year.
- Frost, then thaw, repeatedly. Grows well where frost comes and goes.
- Rare or brief frost. Not a good fit. Try Artichoke, Silverskin or Creole.
At a glance
- Neck
- Hardneck
- Keeps
- About 6 months
- Cloves per bulb
- 4 to 7, very large
- Flavor
- Rich and complex with a smooth finish, close to Purple Stripe.
- Braiding
- No
- Harvest
- Late
- Seed per pound
- About 55 plants per pound of seed.
Varieties to order
Bogatyr
Hardneck · Keeps 6 to 8 months · Mid to late harvest
Order from Filaree Hood River
What each supplier says
- Group
- Marbled Purple Stripe (Filaree)
Marbled Purple Stripe (Hood River) - Neck
- hard (Filaree)
hard (Hood River) - Cloves per bulb
- 4 to 6 (Filaree)
5 to 9 (Hood River) - Per pound
- 5 to 7 bulbs/lb (Filaree)
35 to 40 cloves/lb (Hood River) - Keeps
- 7 to 8 months (Filaree)
6 months (Hood River) - Flavor
- Rich, Bold, Medium-Hot (Filaree)
Medium-hot (Hood River) - Climate
- Cold winters (Filaree)
Zones 1 to 6, tested in warm winter regions (Hood River) - Harvest
- Mid (Filaree)
Late (Hood River)
Metechi
Hardneck · Keeps 6 to 8 months · Mid harvest
Order from Filaree Keene
What each supplier says
- Group
- Marbled Purple Stripe (Filaree)
Marbled Purple Stripe (Keene) - Neck
- hard (Filaree)
hard (Keene) - Cloves per bulb
- 5 to 8 (Filaree)
5 to 7 large fat (Keene) - Per pound
- 5 to 7 bulbs/lb (Filaree)
6 to 8 bulbs/lb, 42 to 56 cloves/lb (Keene) - Keeps
- 6 to 8 months (Filaree)
- Flavor
- Rich, Medium-Hot (Filaree)
One of the hottest garlics raw (Keene) - Climate
- Cold winters / Adaptable (Filaree)
Productive in all regions including warm (Keene) - Harvest
- Mid (Filaree)
Russian Red
Hardneck · Keeps 6 to 8 months · Mid harvest
Order from Filaree Keene
What each supplier says
- Group
- Marbled Purple Stripe (Filaree)
Marbled Purple Stripe (Keene) - Neck
- hard (Filaree)
hard (Keene) - Cloves per bulb
- 5 to 8 (Filaree)
6 to 8 (Keene) - Per pound
- 5 to 7 bulbs/lb (Filaree)
6 to 8 bulbs/lb, 36 to 48 cloves/lb (Keene) - Keeps
- 6 to 8 months (Filaree)
- Flavor
- Rich, Strong (Filaree)
Strong, medium-hot, rich, complex, true garlic (Keene) - Climate
- Cold winters / Adaptable (Filaree)
Mid to northern states (Keene) - Harvest
- Mid (Filaree)
Siberian
Hardneck · Keeps 6 to 8 months · Mid harvest
Order from Filaree Keene
What each supplier says
- Group
- Marbled Purple Stripe (Filaree)
Marbled Purple Stripe (Keene) - Neck
- hard (Filaree)
hard (Keene) - Cloves per bulb
- 5 to 7 (Filaree)
5 to 7 large (Keene) - Per pound
- 4 to 6 bulbs/lb (Filaree)
- Keeps
- 6 to 8 months (Filaree)
- Flavor
- Rich, Medium-Hot (Filaree)
Rich and sweet roasted, strong lasting raw with no aftertaste (Keene) - Climate
- Cold winters (Filaree)
Good in most US regions (Keene) - Harvest
- Mid (Filaree)
Estonian Red
Hardneck
Order from Keene
What each supplier says
- Group
- Marbled Purple Stripe (Keene)
- Neck
- hard (Keene)
- Cloves per bulb
- 5 to 7 large fat (Keene)
- Flavor
- Strong, large fat cloves, all-purpose, good raw (Keene)
- Climate
- Northern states, productive in some warm southern regions (Keene)
Lithuanian Purple
Hardneck · Keeps 5 to 6 months · Late harvest
Order from Hood River
What each supplier says
- Group
- Marbled Purple Stripe (Hood River)
- Neck
- hard (Hood River)
- Cloves per bulb
- 10 to 12 (Hood River)
- Per pound
- 50 to 60 cloves/lb (Hood River)
- Keeps
- 5 to 6 months (Hood River)
- Flavor
- Hot (Hood River)
- Climate
- Zones 1 to 9 (Hood River)
- Harvest
- Late (Hood River)
Russian Giant
Hardneck
Order from Keene
What each supplier says
- Group
- Marbled Purple Stripe (Keene)
- Neck
- hard (Keene)
- Cloves per bulb
- 5 to 7 large fat (Keene)
- Per pound
- 6 to 8 bulbs/lb, 42 to 56 cloves/lb (Keene)
- Flavor
- Mild, large fat cloves, all-purpose, good raw (Keene)
- Climate
- Productive in all regions including warm (Keene)
Svea
Hardneck · Keeps 4 to 5 months
Order from Hood River
What each supplier says
- Group
- Marbled Purple Stripe (Hood River)
- Neck
- hard (Hood River)
- Cloves per bulb
- 6 to 8 large (Hood River)
- Keeps
- 4 to 5 months (Hood River)
- Flavor
- Hot, mellows when cooked (Hood River)
- Climate
- Thrives in cold climates (Hood River)
- Scapes
- Yes (Hood River)
What the catalogs say
Fewer and fatter cloves than standard Purple Stripe, with mottled rather than striped wrappers. Filaree puts storage slightly longer than either Rocambole or standard Purple Stripe. Boundary notes it needs careful curing in a wet summer. Genetically differentiated in the USDA study, unlike the glazed type. Varieties include Metechi, Bogatyr, Siberian, Khabar.
Catalog spellings vary. Hood River prints Bogytar, Khbar and Kranagasger Red for what appear to be Bogatyr, Khabar and Krasnodar Red. Check against a second supplier before ordering.