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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: philistine on February 15, 2017, 22:53:55
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Anybody had any success in propagating from these ?
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None whatsoever. So I gave up on that form of propagation and now only plant the cloves . Fifty this year enough for a years supply and for replanting for next season. They keep much better than ordinary garlic and a lot less fiddly to prepare.
Each year one or two of the bulbs make 'rounds' rather than split into individual cloves pretty much like ordinary garlic can. Up to now I never had any success planting these either. (the idea is that you harvest an extra large elephant garlic head) This year one has grown looking as a shallot would look with a tuft of shoots so it will be interesting to see how it turns out.
I no longer grow the temperamental real garlic. Elephant garlic is a better crop in my view. :happy7:
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I keep meaning to have a go with Elephant Garlic as it's so nice and mild roasted, not to mention huge, but I keep forgetting to order the bulbs in time!
It has a very different taste to proper garlic though, I'd never replace one with the other ... nothing beats the clean taste of a good hardneck garlic when it's nice and fresh.
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this year is my first year of the elephant i was given 5 cloves by a friend to eat however i left them in the shed and not wanting to waste them i planted them in a do or die mission all five are now around 2" high which i must admit i had my doubts them growing at all but no all strong and healthy i too love the taste it was the price that put me off but now i will save ten cloves this year and eat the rest
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Elephant garlic is like a weed on my plot they keep popping up all over the place every year....
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Elephant garlic grows more like leeks then garlic.
As they are derived from leeks as breed by Luther Burbank.
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Elephant garlic grows more like leeks then garlic.
As they are derived from leeks as breed by Luther Burbank.
Why were they bred from leeks by Luther Burbank? Where do you get that from wargarden? They do however occur growing wild in coastal areas in Britain. :wave:
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the source had on this was supposedly debunked about its origins.
as to relating to leek that what Wikipedia say.
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Elephant garlic grows more like leeks then garlic.
As they are derived from leeks as breed by Luther Burbank.
Why were they bred from leeks by Luther Burbank? Where do you get that from wargarden? They do however occur growing wild in coastal areas in Britain. :wave:
they are growing well here on the sunshine coast galina :drunken_smilie: :drunken_smilie: :drunken_smilie: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:
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Yes johhnyco15 and here too. We are as far away from any coast as you can get in England! :icon_cheers:
And our heavy alkaline clay is very different from sandy coastal soil too. :sunny:
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Growing them for the first time, but only planted them a couple of weeks ago. Not sure if that will give them a long enough growing season.
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Even if it doesn't (I suspect you'll be OK) they'll still grow and give you bigger bulbs to replant.