King Island Garlic
"Good clean food, that's what we're known for."
My specialty is providing the home garlic gardener with a range of interesting and unusual garlic varieties to plant, grow and store for a supply of fresh garlic all year.
I offer a selection of cultivars which I have gathered over two decades from Tasmania's rich cultural heritage of migrant heirlooms and industry trials.
My garlic is grown under the clear sky and fresh air of King Island, Bass Strait,Tasmania, in the path of the Roaring 40's, using NO pesticide or herbicide, NO fumigant or GMO
Did you know?
There are at least eleven different known 'types' or groups of garlic.
Ancestral wild garlic originated in the ravines of the Silk Road region of central Asia, then spread around the Earth, domesticated and carried by humans, evolving and transforming into many, many varieties to arrive ten thousand years later on our small island at the bottom of the world, on a journey to you! And that's another fascinating story ......
"Is purple garlic best?" Not necessarily! Garlic comes in many colours - purple, white, pink, tan or red. While interesting and beautiful, colour is not the most important factor of good garlic. Some garlic groups include many varieties with a range of subtle flavours, shapes, sizes and storage qualities. Some are early maturing, some are harvested later, some are short-storing, others keep longer, even up to a year. Some are mild and sweetly tasting when cooked whole, where others are strong and pungent! So if you know your garlic and carefully choose your varieties, you can grow fresh garlic to last through the year, to suit any dish! No longer just hardneck or softneck, purple or white!
Garlic is not just garlic!
2021 JANUARY UPDATE
While rain is a wonderful thing, we have had quite a bit too much here, which has disrupted the harvesting and affected our crop. Please hold enquiries until February 2021 once we have assessed what varieties we can offer
BUY LOCALLY ON KING ISLAND
BIOSECURITY???
BUY ONLINE - 2021 ONLINE SALES currently suspended. Rain affected crop is being assessed.
Storage tip: smaller bulbs of any particular variety will last longer than large ones of the same variety.
"Shallots are for babies, onions are for men, garlic is for heroes" - a 16th Century poet.
I offer a selection of cultivars which I have gathered over two decades from Tasmania's rich cultural heritage of migrant heirlooms and industry trials.
My garlic is grown under the clear sky and fresh air of King Island, Bass Strait,Tasmania, in the path of the Roaring 40's, using NO pesticide or herbicide, NO fumigant or GMO
Did you know?
There are at least eleven different known 'types' or groups of garlic.
Ancestral wild garlic originated in the ravines of the Silk Road region of central Asia, then spread around the Earth, domesticated and carried by humans, evolving and transforming into many, many varieties to arrive ten thousand years later on our small island at the bottom of the world, on a journey to you! And that's another fascinating story ......
"Is purple garlic best?" Not necessarily! Garlic comes in many colours - purple, white, pink, tan or red. While interesting and beautiful, colour is not the most important factor of good garlic. Some garlic groups include many varieties with a range of subtle flavours, shapes, sizes and storage qualities. Some are early maturing, some are harvested later, some are short-storing, others keep longer, even up to a year. Some are mild and sweetly tasting when cooked whole, where others are strong and pungent! So if you know your garlic and carefully choose your varieties, you can grow fresh garlic to last through the year, to suit any dish! No longer just hardneck or softneck, purple or white!
Garlic is not just garlic!
2021 JANUARY UPDATE
While rain is a wonderful thing, we have had quite a bit too much here, which has disrupted the harvesting and affected our crop. Please hold enquiries until February 2021 once we have assessed what varieties we can offer
BUY LOCALLY ON KING ISLAND
- FARMGATE GARLIC - Frogshack Farm, 1049 Grassy Rd, Pegarah, King Island.
- Produce of King Island POKI Market - Find me in person at (mostly) monthly markets in Currie.
BIOSECURITY???
- Can I take garlic home from a visit to King Island? YES, unless you are going to WA.
- Regulations do allow Tasmanian garlic into all states (except WA)
- King Island is Tasmanian, so you may take garlic between King Island and Tasmania
- You MAY NOT bring garlic into Tasmania (including King Island) from mainland Australia
BUY ONLINE - 2021 ONLINE SALES currently suspended. Rain affected crop is being assessed.
- Garlic Gardener's King Island Collection - named varieties
- (SEE SAMPLE click here, currently unavailable, undergoing update)
- (SEE SAMPLES click here)
- (HOW TO ORDER BY MAIL click here)
- We post to all states (Exc WA)
Storage tip: smaller bulbs of any particular variety will last longer than large ones of the same variety.
"Shallots are for babies, onions are for men, garlic is for heroes" - a 16th Century poet.
