Elephant Garlic - 6 Cloves (Autumn Planting)

Marshalls Garden

Catalogue Code: 10406046

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Elephant Garlic cloves are mammoth in size. They produce big bulbs made up of multiple big cloves, making them an extra productive member of the allium family.

Key Features

Perfect for pots and containers
Prefers full sun

Pack Contents: 1 Pack of 6 x Jumbo Cloves

Description

Autumn Planting
Big bulbs that produce big cloves
Sweeter and milder than smaller garlic
Easy to grow
Get four times the quantity at harvest time

Elephant garlic is a crop on the vegetable plot to turn heads. More closely related to the leek this variety acts more like a garlic in taste, smell and the way it grows.

Plant your Elephant Garlic in autumn or winter. It needs that guaranteed cold spell in winter to break the bulb into separate cloves. We recommend you choose a site that has well-drained soil and is in a sunny position. Make sure they are 20cm (8in) apart to give them room to grow. They look dramatic and impactful reaching up to a metre (3 1/2 ft) in height.

They will also produce a lovely purple flowering head which ought to be cut when it emerges to get the best bulb for eating.

The flavour of the Elephant Garlic is milder and sweeter than that of the traditional garlic. This lends Elephant Garlic to roasting whole.

Try basting it with olive oil and then roasting it in the oven where it will give you a creamy-textured vegetable or eating it raw, grated into a salad.

Growing Calendar

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Plant Outdoors
Harvest

How to Guide

Planting Garlic

Prepare the ground with our Pre-Planting Onion, Garlic & Shallot Fertiliser to ensure strong bulb development and growth, early ripening and maturity, good skin and bulb firmness.

Place the cloves in the soil with their tips around 2.5cm (1in) below the surface. Space them about 15cm (6 inches) apart. Keep rows around 30cm (12 inches) apart.

If the weather is particularly wet, or soil very heavy, start cloves in modules in a greenhouse or under other protection until conditions improve.

Read our full How To Grow Garlic Guide here.

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