Pink garlic
Pink garlic: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Pink garlic covers varieties of Allium sativum with pinkish wrappers around their cloves. It belongs to the amaryllis family, alongside other garlic and onions. The name describes a colour group without identifying one precise cultivar or regional origin. Its appeal is both aromatic and visual.A garlic head is a bulb made up of several cloves, the individual parts used in cooking. Each clove has its own wrapper, a thin protective covering. Additional membranes surround the entire head. In some pink garlic varieties, these outer layers remain white while pink surrounds the cloves. The colour category therefore does not mean that the flesh itself is pink.Shades range from pale pink to deeper pink, sometimes with stripes. Clove number, size and arrangement vary with the cultivar. Some heads contain fairly evenly sized cloves, while others combine different sizes. The basic structure remains a compound bulb, unlike an onion with concentric layers around…
