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Seed Garlic
2 Sisters Garlic offers garlic for sale to be planted in gardens
or for production of garlic. We do not intend for our garlic to be
used for cooking/eating.
What's the Difference Between Seed
and Culinary Garlic?
- Really, there isn't a set-in-stone difference. They are grown
the same way.
- Culinary garlic is often smaller than seed garlic, but this is
a personal choice. Smaller bulbs often last longer in the cupboard
than larger bulbs do.
- Garlic bulbs grown for seed at 2 Sisters Garlic are from the
same rows we choose our own garlic to eat.
- Our bulbs are not disinfected, however, as they are intended
for use as seed instead of eating.
We sell garlic bulbs for use as seed for many
reasons which range from:
- Our lack of time/manpower to clean bulbs to make them spotless
and pretty.
- Because we do not disinfect our garlic with cleaning agents,
and don't want liability issues.
- Harvesting later in order to allow the bulbs and cloves to
grow larger (which can cause bulbs to not be as pretty or store
quite as long, as they are intended to sprout and grow before
winter begins).
- Seed garlic is just plain our goal!
Unless otherwise specified, our garlic ships as whole bulbs (not
broken apart into individual cloves), with dirt removed, but not
brushed totally clean. Most of our garlic (with periodic exceptions) has long roots removed. We
leave as many wrappers on as possible, although especially with
softnecks, some wrapper loss occurs due to the allowance of extra
growth time for larger garlic seed.
Garlic purchased from us might be brushed clean and
pretty. Or, it might have some dirt still on the
wrappers because we intend it to be used as seed.
Our goal is to remove dirt that
affects weight, so customers are not paying for dirt.
Garlic "as harvested," left. Cleaned and brushed, right.
We do not typically ship garlic as dirty as the left two bulbs unless
it's for large, bulk production with agreement by the buyer, or when
it is labeled as such in the shopping cart.
Seed garlic, example of being lightly cleaned.
If you ordered garlic with the intention
of eating it, expected sparkling clean bulbs, and would like a refund (before shipping only), please
contact us immediately via e-mail (see the bottom of the page for
contact information). To search for your order, we may
need to know an approximate purchase date, the e-mail address used
for the shopping cart purchase, and of course, the name of the
purchaser.
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