Elephant garlic, chuffed

[Pies]

Lifted my first elephant garlic today was well chuffed got 20+ more to lift as well

[Germinater]

That looks awesome .defantly gowing to plant garlic this autum ..

[miker2d2]

wow, when did you plant those?

whats the flavour like?

[Pies]

Planted last september, no idea what the flavour is like yet.Will eat one asap

[Helgalush]

Looks fantastic. Mine didnt do anything and neither did the one I gave to my Dad.

[FionaH]

I lifted some yesterday. Flavour is mild and yummy.

[miker2d2]

might have to try some of those, not grown garlic before. love roasted garlic-only when not working the next day though!!
well done pies

[pipscariad]

Wow, Pies, that's fabulous! You have twenty more of those beauties? Lucky you. I planted 4 elephant garlics, but only two came to anything - and then got strimmed in error by my OH! Survived though, thank goodness. Do you think you'll be able to save some to plant next year? The price of the cloves always puts me off...

Hope it was as delicious as it looks!

[Florence Fennel]

They look lovely, well done. I didn't bother this year, just did the normal garlic. My elephant garlic last year was just like a giant spring onion, it didn't split into cloves.

[Pies]

ive worked out elephant garlic needs planting in September as it puts down alot of root mass before it shoots also if the cloves are small it wont split but will form rounds. These rounds can be eaten or replanted to give a very large bulb next year

I started of with buying two cloves but got supplied four.I replanted everything last year and got a 21 plants ill replant the best and eat the rest