Australian Garlic
Celebrating and understanding our garlic groups and cultivars
Middle Eastern Group
Hardneck - Weakly Bolting
This cultivar falls into the Artichoke Group, Type 2 and shares its evolution with others in this sub-group from Formosan to Taiwanese and Taiwanese Purple. Long time grower Roger Schmitke selected bulbs from this heritage that produced larger bulbs and cloves then other cultivars grown in the 80s and 90s. These went to Queensland’s Gatton Research Station and over a 6 year period they were grown and selected and replanted, selecting only the biggest and best bulbs and cloves. In 1997 Southern Glen named and released.  See the Production of Garlic here
This day-length neutral cultivar is a very important cultivar for growers in warmer more northern regions.
General Information
International name/s:
Flavour: Mild
Storage: Medium to long
Growing location: Tasmania, Victoria but could be grown in SA and Southern NSW and WA.
Growing requirements: Cool to cold winters and warm springs. Will tolerate hot dry summers.
Planting and harvest: Early to middle.
Bulb
Shape: Small to large, lumpy.
Skin colour and texture: Generally white to mauve with fairly coarse skins.
Clove
Number and layout: Numerous in layers.
Size and shape: Small to large in numerous layers.
Skin colour and texture: White, fine and difficult to peel.
Plant
Size and shape: Slender to thick, medium height.
Leaves: Slender to thick.
Young plants: Strong and solid.
Matures: Early maturing.
Scape: Slender and weak and usually upright.
Umbel and beak:
Bulbils and flowers: Sometimes bublils in pseudostem.
Artichoke Group
Silverskin Group
Subtropical Group
Asiatic Group
Creole Group
Middle Eastern Group
Turban Group
- Flinders Island Purple
- Glamour
- Italian Purple
- Monaro Purple
- Ontos Purple
- Shandong
- Tasmanian Purple
- White Crookneck
- Xian