Does anyone have a garlic I should order to grow?

[AngryAmish]

An aunt grows the best garlic. Both harsh and sweet, but not bitter at all.

She will not tell me where she orders it from.

So, if you grow garlic, make some recommendations.

[blogslut]

1. You can grow it from a clove.

http://www.reclaimgrowsustain.com/content/foods-you-can-grow-kitchen-scraps

[trueblue2007]

2. i just planted 3 cloves yesterday.

[Myrina]

3. buy the kind you like at the grocer & plant it.

n/t

[panader0]

4. Garlics do not like to ordered to grow.

[femmocrat]

5. Try the Gardening Group for more recommendations:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1159

[KamaAina]

6. Someone in Gilroy, CA probably does

As improbable as it sounds, the Garlic Capital of the World is located at the opposite end of Santa Clara County, CA from $ilicon Valley! The whole town reeks of the stuff, and they have an annual garlic festival complete with garlic ice cream!

[So Far From Heaven]

7. No, but I have a boatload of leeks you can order around... (nt)

[Kali]

8. this guy may know

http://thedeliberateagrarian.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-i-plant-my-garlic.html

I have his garlic powder book somewhere, and I think he makes some recommendations. If I can find it I will post again.

[mackerel]

9. My mother grows elephant garlic and she lets about 25% got to seed

every year so that it will come back the next year. I think you can just plant the bulbs like you can plant onion bulbs just straight into the ground.

[LNM]

10. I think it depends on where you live.

I live in Minnesota and learned from (IIRC) the U of M gardening site that the California garlic from the grocery store will not grow well here. I get my hard-neck (Cali stuff is soft-neck) bulbs from the local farmer's market and plant the individual cloves in the fall. It's way better than the store-bought.