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Post by diane on Sept 13, 2014 15:43:23 GMT -5
I find the range of sizes amazing. Those of Spicy Korean Red are big enough to cook with.
I can't upload the photo I took, though, as the message I got was that the forum has exceeded its allowed amount.
So, I can describe the sizes - most varieties have bulbils the size of an uncooked grain of rice. Spicy Korean Red has spherical ones the size of an acorn or cherry.
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Post by flowerweaver on Sept 13, 2014 19:20:54 GMT -5
diane You'll need to use a photo hosting site like Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket. Once you've uploaded your images to one of them there will be a way to share the photo to this forum by using a BBC code, link, or HTML code. That's how we all get photos to post since the allowed amount has been exceeded.
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Post by blueadzuki on Sept 13, 2014 19:38:51 GMT -5
That's pretty normal. SKR is a Rocambole type garlic and they tend to have pretty big bulbils. Or why those growers at the FM who grow it tend to sell BOTH ends of the plant in their season (for most other garlics, selling the bulbil end for cooking would be all but pointless, since they would be too much effort to peel for the average buyer. Better economically to cut them off early and sell the scapes.
But yes the sizes do vary. A few years ago I found a garlic top in a bin at the Farmers market where each bulbil was probably only the size of a sesame seed but there were so many I originally mistook the top for an unusually large red clover flower! On the other side, while I have never seen it I think I have heard of some sort of garlic which makes only ONE bulbil per head, but that one is so big that, if you plant it, it will break up into a head the next year (most bulbils tend to take a few years of being rounds before the bulk up enough to "break".
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