OUR PRODUCT
We provide sized seeds treated against fungal and bacterial diseases. One of the major contributing factors to a successful start of a garlic plantation is the size and weight of the initial seed (clove).
CGG does not keep the biggest cloves for themselves, supplying farmers with smaller ones or even wedges. CGG sizes cloves mechanically and then selects them manually, delivering guaranteed sized seeds over 3,0g per clove with an average size above 3,5g per clove.
Wedges and smaller cloves get discarded. Considering that we supply with some extra seeds for the event of an odd clove not being in the ideal condition, the above weight in seeds is equivalent to over 900kg worth of cloves per planted hectare.We also provide cloves that have been broken down from bulbs not longer than one week and not shorter than 4 days.
Once the bulbs are broken down to separate cloves from the root disc, cloves start dehydrating and should ideally be planted not later than 10 days thereafter.
However, it is also not advisable to plant them immediately after being separated from the disc. The clove base must heal and form a scar before burying into the ground, to minimize potential infections.
After breaking and sizing, the cloves are dipped into a solution containing a fungicide, a bactericide and an insecticide.
The Clove Skins,
are then left to dry, so as to avoid the wet and soft clove skins falling off. Then cloves are bagged and readied to deliver for planting.
Seeds are packed and shipped
to growers including a short technical paper on how to grow garlic, harvest and dry the garlic, so you have an excellent marketable product.
Below photograph is of our “CGG Morado Fire” variety grown in the Klein Karoo, dried for seeds in 2022/2023 and the resultant crop just before our intended harvesting later in November 2023.
