Details

Type: ophioscorodon, or hardneck, garlic
Color:
- Leaf: deep green or blue-green; moderately spreading and fan shaped
- Bulb skin: off-white with varying amounts of streaks in degrees of light to moderate purple; kind of coarse textured
Maturity: midseason (ie, after artichoke garlic)
Size:
- Bulb: fairly symmetrical, flat globe shaped, some irregularity; 2 to 2 3/4 inches
- Cloves: 6-11 per bulb, but can have 3-14; plum, if well-grown, but tall, narrow, wedged shaped when many cloves per bulb; dull-colored brownish with red-purple blush
- Flower Stalk: 3-5 feet when uncoiled; distinctively coils in 1-3 tight loops
- Bulbil: almost always present unless stressed or in mild winters; umbel forms at tip of stalk; generally 10-40, usually large
Yield: 6-11 cloves per bulb, but can have 3-14
Taste: Exceptional flavor; Rocambole are said to be the best tasting of all garlics when well-grown and locally adapted
Disease or Environmental Tolerance:
- Soil & climate: best in cold winter climes; require fertile soil; generally fussy about soil
- May develop yellow leaf tips easily in poor or unbalanced soils or during cool wet periods

Notes:

I haven’t tried this one yet…