Did you find a source for your garlic? This past October I drove up to the Sussex County Harvest, Honey and Garlic Festival in Augusta for garlic planting stock and found quite a nice variety of both hard and softnecks. Plenty of other interesting things, too, but, having left it till the last minute and a 1.5-hour-plus drive, I had less time than I would have liked to look around. Will definitely go earlier next year!

The garlic I purchased from Valley Fall Farm is excellent and nice large bulbs/cloves. It's Musik, a hardneck, German white porcelain.