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.
Start your garlic garden with my collection, gathered from Tasmania's rich cultural heritage of migrant heirlooms and industry trial varieties. Almost two decades of garlic collecting, planting, weeding, harvest, research, observation, trial, failure and success. Choose from short, medium and long storing types for your own fresh garlic supply. No more foreign fumigated garlic later in the year!
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, 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!
BUY LOCALLY ON KING ISLAND
- FARMGATE GARLIC - Frogshack Farm, 1049 Grassy Rd, King Island. Feb 2021 Currently closed
- Produce of King Island POKI Market - Find me in person during garlic season at (mostly) monthly markets in Currie.
- 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 SALES CLOSED. RE-OPEN Feb 2022
- (MAIL ORDER ENQUIRY click here)
- We post to all states (Exc WA)
Storage tip: smaller bulbs of any particular variety will generally 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.
