Garlic is a bulb crop Cultivated throughout the world. It is used as spice and condiment. Among all the bulb crops garlic has the highest nutritive values. Garlic can be used by people in different forms like dried garlic flakes, garlic powder, garlic oil and chilled garlic.

It is a good source of proteins and also has   minerals like potassium phosphorus etc. Garlic has many health benefits for example it helps garlic helps in digestion it also helps to lower down the cholesterol level in human blood. Along this garlic also has medicinal properties, its oil is used in different joint pains.

Different varieties of garlic to grow

Basically garlic is divided into two main categories that is soft neck garlic and hard neck garlic. However they further have some subdivisions.

Soft neck varieties of garlic

Soft neck variety of garlic is the most used variety. One can easily find this variety at grocery stores. When garlic is grown at a commercial level then usually a soft neck variety is selected.

This is because this variety is easy to grow and maintain. So this variety has a long shelf life. This variety of garlic has a nice mild flavour.

Warm season is best for growth of soft neck garlic. These garlic have so many cloves that can be used to regrow the garlic and for its multiplication.

The soft neck variety of garlic is further divided into two subtypes. These two subtypes are artichoke garlic and silverskin garlic.

• Artichoke garlic: this variety of soft neck garlic has a few cloves however they are bigger in size. This variety has a mellow flavor.
• Silver skin garlic: This variety of  soft neck garlic is small in size. It is very flavorful. This variety dries very easily and quickly. If kept in the right conditions they can live longer.

For best results gardeners recommend grow companion plants along with garlic. You can grow tomato plants, potatoes, kale and spinach with garlic.

Hard neck variety of garlic

This variety of garlic has large cloves. This Friday is also more flavorful as compared to the other variety. This variety has a central stalk ok along with a green shoot known as scape. These scapes are the stocks where flowering occurs. It grows from a bubil having many tiny cloves.

Farmers usually cut off these scapes. Cutting them off helps to encourage the growth of bulbs. Cold weather is suitable for this variety and it grows well then this soft neck variety in this weather.

Mainly 5 subtypes of garlic come under hard neck variety. They are as follows:

• Rocambole garlic: this variety of hardness garlic has the best flavour.  This is the best variety for the people who grow garlic at home. It is very rich and has a very nice taste.
  However over watering can be a big trouble for this variety of garlic. This variety needs hotter weather as compared to the other varieties. It doesn’t grow well in wet and

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