Foreign Garlic

[Old Ace]

Just back from Spain and brought back a huge garlic bulb, no idea what the variety is but it is the size of a large orange, the supermarket was full of them. Have planted them in hope, wondered if anyone has had any joy with stuff brought back or maybe they are just indigenous

[Old Ace]

[galina]

Size of a large orange suggests that what you bought might be Elephant garlic.  I grow that every year here, stick it in during October and harvest like ordinary garlic.  It is related to the leek, rather than a real garlic.

Maybe you can compare google images to what you have bought.

[claybasket]

I did this myself when in Turkey last year, and I bought 3large bulbs the result was very good not as large but a good result 

[BarriedaleNick]

I tried with some Spanish bought garlic and the result was terrible!
However my mate just buys garlic form Catford market and plants that with great results so I guess it is worth a go.

[Old Ace]

Thank you all for your responses, could be elephant garlic but never seen any as big. Planted some cloves so " suck it and see"

[Robert_Brenchley]

What size were individual cloves? A big heffalump harlic clove is about the size of a normal head of garlic.