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For garlic, I like Great Northern White and Romanian Red. Both produced huge cloves.

Music is another variety but they didn’t do as well in my garden. I planted some anyways this year in the raised garlic bed. It should be interesting to see how they all compare this year.

Stuttgarter onions produce a decent size bulb and they are good long storage onions and heirloom. You can save the seeds if they don’t cross pollinate.

For onions I planted Red Wing hybrid as a good long storage onion, and Rossa di Milano. Sadly, Johnny’s Selected seeds is sold out of them already.

I’m in NH. Same growing zone.

M.M. Glad you can get onions to grow well! I purchased Stuttgarter 2 times. I can grow leeks, but onions do not like my soil I think. (Or they do not get enough sun or water here in KS.) I have Estonian red Garlic, very mild, but with large cloves that store well. (Have a braid in my garage.) I think that they were from Territorial seeds or possibly Baker Creek.

This is about the 5th year I have planted them from the original 1/2 lb purchase. Fifty bulbs from the Fall planting are coming up right now!

I planted peas Thursday, and sprinkled some EZ straw over them. (Seeds removed) It rained yesterday should be warm all week so should work well. I need to get hoops and insect barriers over them so they can grow enough that the squirrels don't dig the plants for the peas. I'll go out today and plant spinach, turnips, radishes, maybe several Rutabagas. I also need to get some watering lines laid out and ready to go because I do not want to stand for 2 hours watering the garden!