People ask why we grow hardneck garlic in Maine like it just happened by chance.
It didn’t.
Hardneck garlic needs real winters.
Cold that settles in and stays awhile.
Soil shaped by ice, rock, and stubbornness.
Spring light that stretches long enough to wake the bulbs and tell them it’s time to size up.
This isn’t “toss it in the dirt and pray” garlic.
This is garlic that earns its bite.
Big cloves.
Tight wrappers.
No shortcuts.
Hardneck garlic doesn’t want easy.
It wants Maine.
Culinary Garlic-
Garlic pound- $14 out of stock for 2025
Garlic assorted pound- $18 out of stock for 2025
3 varieties to choose from —
Bogatyr Hard Neck: Marbled Purple Stripe Garlic: Strong and robust flavor. Great for cooking and baking. Its bulb wrappers are thick and parchment-like with white skin showcasing purple and violet stripes. A single bulb will house five to six plump cloves. The peeled cloves are creamy white and dense. Bogatyr garlic is known for its fiery, raw heat that diminishes quickly to a mild and pleasant flavor.
Music Porcelain Garlic: White skinned with just a blush of pink, easy to peel taste is medium hot and true garlic flavor. Excellent storage. Huge cloves are wonderful in the kitchen, and perfect for production pesto-or baking whole. One of the best known and most sought after. Large easy to peel cloves have complex mild flavor
Phillips: Named for a town in Maine. Strong rich pungent garlic flavor. It has a very rich, warm garlicky, mustardy, horseradish-like flavor with a healthy bite. Large cloves with a milder flavor than Russian Red.
Call 207-545-1115 to order.
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Seed garlic-
Very limited availability, order early $28 pound-Sold out for 2025
Only the largest heads of garlic are chosen for seed garlic so that you can grow large heads of garlic at home.
3 varieties to choose from —
Bogatyr : Hard Neck Marbled Purple Stripe Garlic: Strong and robust flavor. Great for cooking and baking. Bogatyr garlic is known for its fiery, raw heat that diminishes quickly to a mild and pleasant flavor. Sold out for 2025
Phillips: Named for a town in Maine. Strong rich pungent garlic flavor. It has a very rich, warm garlicky, mustardy, horseradish-like flavor with a healthy bite. Large cloves with a mild flavor. This garlic is an excellent keeper. Sold out for 2025
Music Porcelain Garlic:
White skinned with just a blush of pink, easy to peel taste is medium hot and true garlic flavor. Excellent storage. Huge cloves are wonderful in the kitchen, and perfect for production pesto-or baking whole. One of the best known and most sought after. Large easy to peel cloves have complex mild flavor. Sold out for 2025
Garlic Braids
Braids start at 4 bulbs and increase in increments of 3.
Because of the fragility of the braids, they can’t be shipped.
Available seasonally by special order only
Order now by calling 207-545-1115
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