Details

• Type: hard neck purple stripe garlic
• Color: 
  • white outer layers
  • almost solid purple striping on clove wrappers
• Maturity: “late maturing”
• Size:
  • 2″ and larger diameter bulbs
  • 5-7 large cloves per bulb
  • “grows larger than other garlics”
• Yield: ?
• Taste: “very strong, hot garlic”
  • Heat: very strong
• Disease Resistance: ?
• Storage Quality: medium
  • stores better than most hardnecks

Notes:

• easy to grow
• easy to peel (a little harder to peel than rocambole garlic)
• sometimes spelled ‘Metechie’

Sources: (where to buy)

• Peaceful Valley Farm $17.99 for 1 lb seed stock (not organic)

Results from My Garden:

2013-2014: 1 lb seed stock from Peaceful Valley = 42 cloves 

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  Metechi seed stock

  

  Metechi planted at 5″x6″ spacing, offset rows

  
  

  planted 11/9/13 at 5″x6″ spacing

• harvested 6/14/14 (217 days)
• 40 heads = 3 lbs 9oz (avg 1.5 oz each)
• 15 have symptoms of stem & bulb nematode
• 2/40 = 5% susceptible to stem & bulb nematode

2014-2015: 1 lb seed stock from Peaceful Valley = 8 heads = 78 cloves (4 seemed diseased/rotting) == 74 good cloves … 40 planted

• planted 11/2/14 at 6″x6″ spacing
• as of 11/29/14, they still haven’t sprouted. I checked on a few, and they look fine and have germinated. Not enough water? Not warm enough soil? planted too deep? 2 other varieties were planted on the same day, at the same spacing, in the same bed…maybe not as deep, though. They have almost all sprouted.