Finished Planting ... and Knackered!

180 cloves in the ground. The breakdown is below:

28 Persian Star
26 Ukranian Red
25 Georgian Fire
16 Hungarian Purple
15 Turkish Red
12 Music
11 Bavarian
10 Spanish Roja
8 Russian Red
8 Amish
6 Reisig
4 Purple Italian
4 Korean Red
4 Moldovan Purple
2 Solent Wight

I'll post more on the different varieties and where I got them. (Although I have to highlight Moldovan Purple and Solent Wight garlics which were given to me by Colin Boswell who runs The Garlic Farm on the Isle of Wight and smuggled through US. Customs.)

And thanks to Joan for her photographic talents!

Garlic Smuggling Pt. 2

Quickly raced through customs with my Moldovan Purple and Solent Wight garlics safely stashed in my luggage. (I packed them with shoes hoping to confuse the ruthless beagle, but fortunately, our paths didn't cross. (The Solent is the strait that separates the Isle of Wight from mainland England).