Meet Your Garlic Grower

Tony Hatfield-Nicholson is one of Central Pennsylvania's foremost authorities on garlic. Tony literally lives and breaths garlic. Tony and his wife Sharon moved to Mifflintown, Pennsylvania several years ago. The former teacher and his wife have formed, Juniata Stinking Rose, a thriving garlic growing business beginning with a harvest of 75 pounds to over 10,000 pounds today.

According to Tony, "garlic is not just garlic". There are two basic types - softneck and hard neck. There are over 400 different varieties of garlic. Juniata Stinking Rose grows 27 different types.

 

 

Garlic Grower

When to Plant: October, November, December and sometime in January - the main consideration to help you know when to plant is that garlic needs to grow roots before the freezing weather sets in. So if you plant about 4 to 6 weeks before the ground normally freezes, you will allow good root development, but not top growth prior to winter.

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