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I planted all my garlic about 4 weeks ago... the normal garlic are up about 5 inches high, but still no sign of the elephant....

Will it take a lot longer to grow?

It was from my own stock....

Planted mine last year and it took about 6 weeks to show.

I'm not the most patient....  planted 6, so may dig one up for a look....   ;D

We planted our 2 weeks ago with the onions. The ordinary garlic is shooting but the elephant which is also our own seed hasn't shown yet

just been to the garden centre, they were selling 2 ELEPHANT GARLIC CLOVES for 2.99  :o :o
they've gotta be taking the p

If you're desperate I could send you some, Manics. It can take a while to come up, but it gets there in the end.

no, honestly, Robert, I got another 3 heads of Taylors garlic 'marco' for 1.99 today (hangs head in shame) so no more room  ;D
also got 50 'electric' onion sets, Taylors for 1.49...we're going to have to have another half onion bed  ;D
can't be trusted near seeds etc  :-[

Where is the best place to buy some from? and am I too late to plant this year?

If you want some, PM me. There's plenty of time, mine isn't in yet.

I put in three rows today, 2 of garlic and one of elephant in next years allium patch. There's also going to be a row of "funnies" where the three truly enormous elephant garlic cloves I got from Jayb will go, they're currently in pots (with plenty of roots showing at the bottom... that row will also get potato onions and a couple of different tree onions (the Catawissa's will be in a row of their own), plus probably the welsh onions.... given that we're predicted decent weather in terms of temperature for the next week or so I'd say now was a perfect time to get them in.

chrisc