Lazy J Garlic Farm

06/28/2024

New business card for a new year! Garlic is ready to share.

12/08/2023

Looks like about 90% of my planted garlic is up and doing well. Mulched with about 6 inches of leaves. Waiting time for spring!

12/08/2023

My sorting and planting for the 2024 crop is finished! I have some nice large/med bulbs for sale. Everything reduced on lazyjgarlicfarms.com

12/07/2023

We started out the 2023 crop planting over 1800 cloves from three varieties.

07/03/2022

Viola Francese is a very special garlic variety. It is a beautiful softneck artichoke variety popular in the south of France and Northern Italy. The large cloves are blushed with a beautiful purple which even tinges the leaves of the plant. The whole plant takes on the violet hue. Very nice balanced flavor with a mid-season harvest. These bulbs will have a beautiful purple striped wrapper and will be medium in size. This garlic is rated 4/5 and thus is mild in garlickiness and pungency.

Viola Francese yields approximately 70 cloves per pound and is one of our most popular items. Perfect for everyday use. Exceptional quality and choice. Great flavor!

We planted around 140 cloves of Viola Francese and harvested right at 130 of good sized large and medium bulbs over 2-3 inches. They made beautiful braids. We have some medium and small braids left as well as medium 1/2 lb. free bags. Check our website for more information.

We are taking orders for the fall planting. I will send in time to vernalize.

06/22/2022

This fall (October) we planted one bed approximately 144 cloves of Lorz Italian. We harvested on April 25. It was very early but the results were pretty good with a total count of 120 cloves accounted for. The bulbs were mostly medium and small bulbs but the big ones fit nicely in my hand (approximately 2-3 inches). We will have braids and groups of ½ lb. mesh bags for sale. I look forward to planting Lorz Italian again this fall. Here are some interesting facts about Lorz Italian.

A real garlic lover's garlic. Most Italian garlics are somewhat mild, but this one is different. Depending on growing conditions, it can be very hot and strong. At first, it doesn't seem to have any aftertaste at all - then in a few minutes it begins to grow and becomes very noticeable and builds to a peak in about thirty minutes. If you like garlic with a bold flavor that really sticks around, this one is for you. This medium-large Italian artichoke is unusual in color, taste, and storability. Lorz has more purple in the bulb wrappers than one usually sees in an artichoke and the semi-thick wrappers peel easily away revealing large cream-colored cloves with elongated tips and only the faintest hint of purple.
Lorz Italian, a superb heirloom garlic, was brought to Washington State's Columbia River Basin in the early 1900s by the Lorz family when they emigrated from Italy. This flavorful softneck garlic has a robust, bold, and spicy flavor that lingers in dishes. Try it in pasta or mashed potatoes, or simply roasted.
Lorz Italian is very prolific: just one pound of cloves can yield 8-10 pounds of bulbs. The white bulbs, with occasional purple and brown streaks, are very large and have a slightly flattened shape. This mid-season garlic may be stored for 6-9 months. It averages seven large fat cloves in three clove layers, and usually has no small internal cloves.

06/16/2022

This fall (October) we planted one bed approximately 140 cloves of Shilla. We harvested on April 24. It was very early but the results were pretty good with a total count of 116 cloves accounted for. The cloves were mostly medium and small bulbs. We will have braids and groups of ½ lb. mesh bags for sale. I look forward to planting Shilla again this fall. Here are some interesting facts about Shilla.

Shilla has a very strong garlicky flavor with a moderate heat. In addition to a nice garlickiness they have a distinct undertone that strongly reminds of Dijon mustard, like Rose du Lautrec, a Creole garlic from the South of France. They have a strong aftertaste that sticks around for a while. While they are not the strongest garlic, their Dijon-like flavor makes them very unusual.

Shilla is a beautiful early harvesting very rich flavored and moderately pungent Turban garlic from Korea. Straw-colored clove covers and parchment-like bulb wrappers occasionally have thin stripes and a little color to them. Asiatic and Turban garlics are always the first garlics harvested as they mature weeks before any of the others.

Another surprise is the bulbs, which are much larger than you would think as you look at the size of their foliage. When you see them growing among other types of garlic, their leaves are not nearly as large as the others and you begin to think they aren't going to form very big bulbs, but the bulbs turn out to be larger than you might think.

They store clean but they don't store long as most other garlic varieties. Earliest harvesting garlic that wants to be planted first in the fall and stores until mid-November. Harvest spring planted garlic the same season, about 90 days from planting. This garlic is great for baking. Shilla is a hardneck variety garlic and averages about eight big fat cloves per bulb in a rather circular configuration around a central core with no tiny interior cloves.

06/03/2022

Medium garlic bulbs braided and ready to hang in a dry, cool place. Use as you need. You can choose the variety that appeals to you.

06/01/2022

06/01/2022

The way it all started in October, 2021