Garlic · common
Solent Wight
A softneck bred for British conditions on the Isle of Wight. Plant in autumn, ignore it all winter, and by July you'll have fat bulbs with a mellow warmth that makes shop garlic taste like cardboard.
in the kitchen
Roasted garlic
Slice the top off a whole bulb, drizzle with olive oil, wrap in foil, roast at 180C for forty minutes until the cloves are soft as butter. Squeeze onto toast. The simplest luxury.
where to find the seeds
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