Purple garlic
Purple garlic: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Purple garlic describes varieties of Allium sativum with purple on the bulb wrappers, often as stripes against a pale background. It belongs to the amaryllis family. The name identifies a colour group rather than one single cultivar or guaranteed geographical origin. Its appeal combines visually distinctive bulbs with a pronounced garlic aroma.The head consists of several cloves, the individual parts used in cooking. An outer wrapper surrounds the whole bulb, while each clove has its own covering. These two layers are not necessarily the same colour. In some purple varieties, external membranes are purple-striped and individual clove skins are more brownish. Edible flesh generally remains white to cream.Purple may be extensive or restricted to a few areas. Its intensity varies with cultivar and conditions. Clove number, size and head dimensions vary too. A purple wrapper therefore establishes neither a precise weight nor the same internal arrangement for every bulb in…
