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Cooking & Baking

markodochartaigh

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1. Do you mean at the grocery store?

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Sun Jun 15, 2025, 05:32 AM

Jun 2025

Different types of garlic have different storage qualities. Maybe the purplish ones you're seeing are ones with a longer storage life, since garlic is normally harvested in the fall in the Northern Hemisphere.

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What's going on with garlic? [View all] no_hypocrisy Jun 2025 OP

Do you mean at the grocery store? markodochartaigh Jun 2025 #1

I'm looking out the window at my garlic right now, the scapes have been cut dem4decades Jun 2025 #2

will be harvesting ours in a month ShepKat Jun 2025 #3

Probably just different cultivars. Store may have switched suppliers. eppur_se_muova Jun 2025 #4

Where are you? Retrograde Jun 2025 #5

New Jersey no_hypocrisy Jun 2025 #6

Im a nature guy, kozar Jun 2025 #7