KNOWING VARIETIES FOR A SMART CHOICE

KNOWING VARIETIES FOR A SMART CHOICE

GARLIC

-    Autumn garlic

  • Purple or white garlic with no flower hamp (except very early varieties), to be sold as fresh garlic or half-dry.
  • Good conservation (up to 6 month off refrigeration), good regular yield.
  • Planting in October and November and harvest in June or early July depending on regions.
  • Varieties : Germidour, Messidrôme, Thermidrôme, Messidor, Sabagold, Rustisem, Therador.

- Very early autumn garlic

  • Purple garlic but new white variety have been developping
  • To be sold as fresh garlic from May.
  • Planting in September and october.
  • Poor conservation.
  • Varieties : Primor, Precosem.

- Spring garlic

  • Pink type garlic with floral hamp, late variety due to its late cropping, long conservation,
  • Varieties : Flavor, Cledor, Gayant

- Hardneck garlic :

  • Pink garlic with hard neck, hardy, good conservation.
  • Planting from late autumn to early winter and harvest late June to early July.
  • Variety : Edenrose.


SHALLOT


- Pink shallot (Jersey type) :

  • Long : elongated and regular bulb with copper-yellow scales and a vividly coloured flesh. A delicate taste with an aromatic flavour. The long shallot is an earlier variety than the half long shallot.. Longor, Jermor, Pesandor, Vigarmor
  • Half long : rounded shape with copper pink or red scales. Mikor, Melkior
  • Round : mainly cultivated in eastern France. Hermine,

- Grey shallot :
a breed of Jersey, long and arched bulb, thick an solid scales of grey colour, pink to purple flesh. Strong taste and with medium preservation properties (6 to 7 months). Mainly produced in southern and eastern France.

- White shallot :

ONIONS


For detailed information, please refer to the contemplated variety