Printanor Garlic

Flavoursome and long-keeping, our Printanor is grown right here in New Zealand and is ready to plant right now.

Printanor is a Silverskin garlic and is a soft-neck garlic, meaning it has no central flower stem. Silverskin types have many cloves when broken apart, up to 30 in each bulb. Only the largest third of the cloves should be planted - smaller cloves will grow and produce bulbs but they will be quite small and give disappointing results.

These are large bulbs, and a pack of 5 bulbs weighs almost 250g, making this exceptional value compared with garlic selling upwards of $40/kg in supermarkets, and seed garlic costing much more per bulb elsewhere as well.

Please note that due to wet weather we had a late harvest of this crop and the bulbs look a bit 'scruffy' compared with past years. They're starting to split open a bit, but this has no effect on the garlic and it can still be planted and/or eaten as usual.

Break the bulbs into individual cloves and plant them in rows 2-3cm deep with 8cm between cloves. If you have more than one row, space the rows 20cm apart to make sure all the plants get plenty of light.

Printanor is best planted after the shortest day, as late as early August, and harvested when it is ready to harvest, which is often late January. Don't go by the old 'plant on shortest day, harvest on the longest day' theory. Plant according to what each variety needs and harvest it when it is ready.

Fertilise with general purpose fertiliser in early September and again in early November to boost them for their final growth push. No fertiliser is needed at planting time.

Please note that garlic and shallots are shipped in May/June and freight is charged separately from other bulb orders

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