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Went to your link Black Agnes. Thanks! - How do I choose???

I saw they had a list of “mild” garlics, which would probably be appropriate for Darlin’s and my palettes. Do you know what might grow well in northern Oklahoma?

I saw this blurb about China Dawn, and sounds interesting. Do you know anything about it yourself? I thought it was interesting that it suggested others to plant along with it for a sustained garlic harvest:

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China Dawn (Hardneck Turban garlic)

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China Dawn is another beautiful Turban garlic with a rich garlicky flavor and it has a floral-like aroma when raw. China Dawn has a mellow/moderate pungency that you notice immediately upon biting into China Dawn raw - instant mellow sweet earthy richness that builds to a crescendo in about 45 seconds, levels out and slowly dissipates leaving you warm and grinning.

Turbans are among the very earliest harvesting garlics and store until mid-November or longer and need to be planted early in the fall.
If you grow these you’ll have garlic before anyone else and if you also grow a long storing kind, like Ajo Rojo or a Porcelain like German White or a silverskin like Mild French, you may never run out of good garlic.

Grows well in most of the USA.

Harvests in late spring/early summer, stores into winter.

— Order now for shipment in the fall.
Get in line early as there will likely be shortages this year.—

Well, in northern OK, you have coooold winters usually so you can grow stuff with ‘Siberian’ in the name LOL. Those aren’t happy in my hood here about 150m from the GOM.

I order the ‘Creole’ variety to be sure they’re happy down here. Other than that I don’t really know much about garlics.

The farm I ordered from is ‘Forever Yong’ in AZ. I figure if it’s happy in AZ it’ll probably be happy here.

I had really good luck with their garlic a couple of years ago but didn’t get around to ordering it last year. The difference between the different varieties and the ‘generic’ garlic you get at Kroger is amazing. That much I will say.