Thanks for this video. I've been trying to figure out what kind of garlic was growing on my property. This is it! I do love them as garlic and the flowers.
I"m glad my video was helpful for you, Linda Pow. But even more, I'm glad you have so much Elephant Garlic all around you! You are rich in good eating and beauty! :D
Thank you so very much for this video!!!! I have been trying to figure out what this plant was!!! It grows wild at the end of my street!!! Going to get some soon!!! Thank you, again!!!
Thanks for the very interesting video. Strangely enough I brought in 4 of the seed pods today! Yes, bees LOVE them. Can I dry the seed pods and separate the seeds for growing? How long will it take to produce seedlings please? I LOVE your voice :)
Sorry to have missed your question, Pat Pathinayake. It's great that you have seeds in those big seed pods. Many times, they don't make seed at all. Yes, you can dry the seedheads and save the seed. But just expect the germination to not be super high. I find self-seeded Elephant Garlic around my yard, so at least some seeds germinate. When I see the little Elephant Garlic leaves in different places in my yard, I make sure to not mow them down or step on them. It takes 2-3 years for the seeds to turn into the big heads of garlic with large cloves. And then another year or 2 for them to turn into a large patch of crowded plants that you can use like spring leeks. That seems like a long process, and planting the Elephant Garlic cloves is faster. But once you have a bunch of plants, there's always some coming into their different stages of growth. Enjoy your Elephant Garlic!
@@HaphazardHomestead بہت شکریہ۔ mam It means the flowers which appear on the top of the elephant garlic can grow and it trun into elp garlic with in 2 or 3 years.. Please reply.. Thank you
If you leave the flowers, the size of the elephant garlic cloves under ground will be a lot smaller. But with elephant garlic, you can have some plants that you let flower, and then others that you use for the garlic cloves. At least you can eat the flower stalk when it's young. Here's a video I made that shows how the flower stalk affects the size of the garlic: ruclips.net/video/eRuadb28-vA/видео.html
Haphazard Homestead thanks for your response, hopefully I didn’t wait too long.. I love this plant and will keep it going.. next year will be great! Thanks again
Hi ya Hap! WOW! Those must be a sight to see, their big, I will get some to plant this fall, if I remember correctly, I’m to plant them with the pointed end up, am I right??? Thank u
Yes, pointed end up! Elephant garlic have so many good uses. I'm surprised more people don't grow them. Plant them once and you can have them around forever.
Haphazard Homestead Hello Hap! Appreciate the reply! And my thoughts to ur comment as to why more people don’t grow garlic is 1) a lot of people don’t like it, I use to not, but do now, especially picked garlic, it’s hard for me not to eat the whole jar n one setting Lol, and when I get mine growing, I’m going to see if I like them fermented 2) those that do like them, it may never have accrued (spell check) to some that they can be grown (many do not know where food comes from) OR they do know but prefer the easy way and buy them opposed to growing them which requires labor, which a lot of people don’t like. When mine gets going, I’m gonna try and dry the flowers and hope the flavor remains. I went to Walmart after work Wednesday morning, checked out the garlic bulbs, I was not impressed with the size difference between the elephant and regular garlic, they were about the same size, and that makes me wonder if the elephant garlic is elephant garlic, they looked NOWHERE near the size of urs. Would u consider selling a few of ur cloves ? If not, that’s okay, I’ve got till fall, I just had a thought, would u think they r the elephant type, and the small size is due to the scapes not being removed??? What’s ur thoughts? Thank u
Fall is the typical time for planting garlic, Lorna J B. But even if you haven't planted garlic to harvest this year, there is wild garlic around. Here's a video I just made, that might help: ruclips.net/video/L2EVqUVtuRo/видео.html
Thanks for video!!! Well, now that you have me gung-ho. Where would you recommend me buying the elephant garlic bublets? And when would I plant in zone 8a North Carolina? Saw one online place selling one bulb for $8.99, but don't know reliable sources. BTW: went to an estate sale. Backyard had many plants all over with tall sturdy spheres (2-3" in dry state) about chest high with very healthy draping foliage. The spheres were finished blooming and dried. I took two that just snapped off which had tiny black looking seeds in the dry spheres. Took home, and black tiny seeds didn't knock off onto paper plate well. Gently removed. Wrapped in paper. Sealed and put in frig in air tight container. Hahahaha. Being a novice to flower gardening, I don't know what the flowering plant was for sure. Thought perhaps allium ambassadors but how do I know for sure. Pure speculation from looking at images on google search. People who owned the lovely house are deceased. Have any thoughts? Sorry for the ramblings. Am a late bloomer trying to get my feet wet learning about flowering annuals and perennials I can grow on a very tight budget.
If you can find Elephant Garlic at a grocery store, you can plant those cloves. The same goes for regular garlic, too. It should be a lot cheaper that way. The plants may not be especially adapted to your area, but it won't be any worse than what you order online. Or if you are on Facebook, join a local gardening group on there and ask if anyone has extra to share. Folks growing Elephant Garlic or regular garlic usually have more than they will ever use. And you will be getting cloves from the plants that are doing well in your area. Nice resourcefulness in getting those seeds. If you succeed in getting those seeds to germinate, if they smell like onions or garlic, you will know they are in the Allium family. Happy growing!
THANK YOU soooo much for the tip about the seeds I collected. AND also I will be going by the garlic cloves every time I go grocery shopping. I just am not sure if I will know whether they are Elephant garlic vs regular kind. I guess I compare and use my "judgment" > oooops that could be a bad thing. (sigh) LOL.
The Elephant Garlic will usually be featured by name, because it is more mild than most other garlic. Anf the cloves should be bigger than the other garlic. There is still time to plant garlic -- I'm working on mine this week in zone 8a in Oregon. Happy gardening! :D
Yes, exactly, SYBOLVE. After it flowers, that one elephant garlic clove will split and continue splitting each year, eventually making a clump of individual plants. I dig those clumps up for spring leeks. Elephant garlic is a great plant!
I just want to grow garlic for the flowers for my garden ,should I plant the entire garlic head or separate the cloves? also is it too late to put them in the ground if all I want is the flowers to bloom?
... Very respect Mam میم It means we can grow elephant garlic from the pink very little seed which comes on the top of the garlic plants.? But it will take 2 or 3 years to make absolute elephant garlic... Waiting for your valuable answer.. Thank you
Yes, I leave them in the ground until I want to harvest the whole plant. Their bulb will split into cloves, so one plant will become a clump over time, with more flowers. When the clump gets too dense, I dig it up in the spring for spring leeks, like I show in this video: ruclips.net/video/m1A_vj3F2pY/видео.html There are so many great uses of Elephant Garlic! You might enjoy my playlist that shows eating their young leaves, their flowerstalks, and more. I hope you can enjoy some Elephant Garlic yourself. It's so underappreciated as a versatile plant in the flower garden and to eat! Here's the playlist -- ruclips.net/p/PLEGN8kE_KnjD6dEWNXksaTcnAbkS1kV7v Thanks for commenting!
I wasn't sure what these were but I saw them growing in my yard. I just bought the house a few months back. If I pull these up, will they still come back next year?
Sorry to miss your comment, Emily Short! In my experience, it seems like there is always at least one little bulblet that gets left behind, lol. And it's easy enough to leave some cloves in the ground to keep your crop going, too. I hope you've been enjoying your Elephant Garlic!
Each separate clove will make a new elephant garlic bulb. If you plant the whole bulb all together, it will make a crowded clump. That clump is good for harvesting as Spring Leeks, but it's not the best result for large flowers or harvesting big elephant garlic bulbs. If your goal is large elephant garlic bulbs to eat, be sure to cut off the scapes (or flower stalks) when they first appear. If your goal is the large flowers, the bulbs will be smaller. But elephant garlic flowers are so pretty! Best of luck with them! :D
This Elephant Garlic was already here when I bought my place in 1993. The original family that lived here had planted it, decades before. They only had to plant it once -- and now there's been over 50 years of Elephant Garlic here, sometimes well tended, other times taking care of itself. Some produce markets carry Elephant Garlic to eat. And it's just fine to plant those because they don't have much disease problem in a garden. Another source is Nichols Garden Nursery in Albany, Oregon. They say they are the originators of Elephant Garlic in 1950. I've enjoyed ordering things from them in past years (not sponsored, not an ad, not an affiliate).
JIMKOR October is the best time. I am in Oregon. They take 9 months to grow. I farm Elephant Garlic. Good luck. You can plant in Spring but they will be smaller
I know this is an old video, but if you are making multi part video you should number them so they will queue up one after another which will create more views. So if you are getting money for views that would help a lot...
That's a good idea. I'll put that on my list of things to get organized about my channel this month. I may put all the elephant garlic videos into a series or separate playlist. Thanks for the suggestion!
Even better idea there by putting them on a playlist I think that once a person watches them they will be directed straight away to watch more. Planting some Elephant garlic this fall for sure and finally getting warmer weather to pick more wild edibles.
When are you planting your garlic? So many of the garlics, including elephant garlic, are sensitive to changes in how long the day-light is. That's why it's good to plant them in the fall and let them over-winter. Then they grow in the spring and naturally die-back by mid-summer.
I hope you get a good Elephant Garlic crop next summer, Charles Shields! They can seem expensive, for sure. But at least they aren't 3 for $29 like the fancy ornamental alliums. I get the Elephant Garlic coming up year after year, in different places around my yard - and they are easy to spread with the little offset bulbs that grow outside the main head of garlic cloves. I hope you have the same success as I've had - or more!
I've been fortunate to not any any rabbit troubles. If you ever watch the "Edible Acres" channel, they use garlic and onions to keep rabbits and deer away, with pretty good success. So good luck!
@@rustyshields7190 lol...if the rabbits sont get it the squirrels will...but only after every snail and pill bug and other insects had tried to murder the plant.
I love your videos, but you are quoting prices from White Flower Farm. My dad was a grounds manager and I grew up a couple miles from the farm (not the warehouse). That place is amazing, but they are crazy expensive and you can find places that may not be as good for a cheaper source.(they could be as good or better though) One of the good things when my dad worked there we got the stuff they were throwing out for free, so we had a crazy garden and landscape. If you go later in the season things for a lot less and in great condition, but not on line as much.
White Flower Farm is not cheap, that's for sure. You must have had beauty all around, with their stuff as the source and your dad as the grower. That is really special! Other sources of the giant allium bulbs are cheaper, for sure. But in general, elephant garlic is cheaper than them anywhere I've ever found. Good tip about getting bulbs for less cost, too.
Thanks. We had an amazing property. My mom completed a master gardener's course too. We had a German guy live with us for a while during his studies here in the States as he did his gardening studies abroad. A lot of gardening knowledge in that house. Wish I gleaned more.
I actually talked to both my mother an father about using the Elephant garlic as flower garden allium and for all the benefits of having the edible bits. Been looking for things that would make a good landscape garden for the front yard. Where I live you are not supposed to do an edible type garden in the front area.
In an area with gardening restrictions like that, elephant garlic is perfect. Everyone will be amazed at the flowers and you can have some plants tucked in there that you cut the flower stalks off of, too. The plants themselves have a nice structural form. Nobody will suspect you have food - they will just compliment you on your flowers! There are so many more plants like that, too. Happy gardening!
So I think i messed up. I bought hundreds of ornamental alliums then saw this video and immediately bought a bunch of elephant garlic and regular garlic. . . .and now i cant remember where I planted what and everything is all over the place. Does anybody know how to tell the difference between garlic, elephant garlic, and an ornamental? I want to keep the flowers on the ornaments but cut all the garlic and elephant garlic scapes so i get larger bulbs to plant next fall. Im afraid everything is going to look the same
Thanks for the advice: I took it and purchased 3 large bulbs to plant for ornamental reasons in my Potager.
Thanks for this video. I've been trying to figure out what kind of garlic was growing on my property. This is it! I do love them as garlic and the flowers.
I'm glad you got your garlic mystery figured out, Ross Hill Farm! Elephant Garlic is such a versatile plant. Enjoy those big, beautiful flowers!
Just perfect. Thank you now I know what the hundreds of beautiful flowers are growing in our land.
I"m glad my video was helpful for you, Linda Pow. But even more, I'm glad you have so much Elephant Garlic all around you! You are rich in good eating and beauty! :D
You can cut the flowers for mild garlic flavoring on fish or mix with cream cheese as a spread!! Delicious
Thank you so very much for this video!!!! I have been trying to figure out what this plant was!!! It grows wild at the end of my street!!! Going to get some soon!!! Thank you, again!!!
If Bees love elephant garlic flowers than I will go to the store and buy a lot more of them BECAUSE I LOVE BEES! Great Vid!
Very nice useful video. You fulfill my curiosity about Garlic flowers. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the very interesting video. Strangely enough I brought in 4 of the seed pods today! Yes, bees LOVE them. Can I dry the seed pods and separate the seeds for growing? How long will it take to produce seedlings please? I LOVE your voice :)
Sorry to have missed your question, Pat Pathinayake. It's great that you have seeds in those big seed pods. Many times, they don't make seed at all. Yes, you can dry the seedheads and save the seed. But just expect the germination to not be super high. I find self-seeded Elephant Garlic around my yard, so at least some seeds germinate. When I see the little Elephant Garlic leaves in different places in my yard, I make sure to not mow them down or step on them.
It takes 2-3 years for the seeds to turn into the big heads of garlic with large cloves. And then another year or 2 for them to turn into a large patch of crowded plants that you can use like spring leeks. That seems like a long process, and planting the Elephant Garlic cloves is faster. But once you have a bunch of plants, there's always some coming into their different stages of growth. Enjoy your Elephant Garlic!
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It means the flowers which appear on the top of the elephant garlic can grow and it trun into elp garlic with in 2 or 3 years.. Please reply.. Thank you
Love this but can I still harvest the garlic and while leaving the flower to go to seed?
If you leave the flowers, the size of the elephant garlic cloves under ground will be a lot smaller. But with elephant garlic, you can have some plants that you let flower, and then others that you use for the garlic cloves. At least you can eat the flower stalk when it's young. Here's a video I made that shows how the flower stalk affects the size of the garlic: ruclips.net/video/eRuadb28-vA/видео.html
Haphazard Homestead thanks for your response, hopefully I didn’t wait too long.. I love this plant and will keep it going.. next year will be great! Thanks again
Getting!!! Beautiful
When do you harvest after flowering
"hope i convinced you" honestly you sold me with the bees alone!
You forgot to mention, that BEES LOVE THEM!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😉
Hi ya Hap! WOW! Those must be a sight to see, their big, I will get some to plant this fall, if I remember correctly, I’m to plant them with the pointed end up, am I right??? Thank u
Yes, pointed end up! Elephant garlic have so many good uses. I'm surprised more people don't grow them. Plant them once and you can have them around forever.
Haphazard Homestead Hello Hap! Appreciate the reply! And my thoughts to ur comment as to why more people don’t grow garlic is 1) a lot of people don’t like it, I use to not, but do now, especially picked garlic, it’s hard for me not to eat the whole jar n one setting Lol, and when I get mine growing, I’m going to see if I like them fermented 2) those that do like them, it may never have accrued (spell check) to some that they can be grown (many do not know where food comes from) OR they do know but prefer the easy way and buy them opposed to growing them which requires labor, which a lot of people don’t like. When mine gets going, I’m gonna try and dry the flowers and hope the flavor remains. I went to Walmart after work Wednesday morning, checked out the garlic bulbs, I was not impressed with the size difference between the elephant and regular garlic, they were about the same size, and that makes me wonder if the elephant garlic is elephant garlic, they looked NOWHERE near the size of urs. Would u consider selling a few of ur cloves ? If not, that’s okay, I’ve got till fall, I just had a thought, would u think they r the elephant type, and the small size is due to the scapes not being removed??? What’s ur thoughts? Thank u
Thank you I'd like to start growing garlic this 2020 for the fall. 👨🌾👩🌾
I'd like to know how to do that if you have any suggestions on a video?
Fall is the typical time for planting garlic, Lorna J B. But even if you haven't planted garlic to harvest this year, there is wild garlic around. Here's a video I just made, that might help: ruclips.net/video/L2EVqUVtuRo/видео.html
@@HaphazardHomestead wonderful thanks for sharing this information about wild Garlic 👍👩🌾👨🌾
Thanks for video!!! Well, now that you have me gung-ho. Where would you recommend me buying the elephant garlic bublets? And when would I plant in zone 8a North Carolina? Saw one online place selling one bulb for $8.99, but don't know reliable sources. BTW: went to an estate sale. Backyard had many plants all over with tall sturdy spheres (2-3" in dry state) about chest high with very healthy draping foliage. The spheres were finished blooming and dried. I took two that just snapped off which had tiny black looking seeds in the dry spheres. Took home, and black tiny seeds didn't knock off onto paper plate well. Gently removed. Wrapped in paper. Sealed and put in frig in air tight container. Hahahaha. Being a novice to flower gardening, I don't know what the flowering plant was for sure. Thought perhaps allium ambassadors but how do I know for sure. Pure speculation from looking at images on google search. People who owned the lovely house are deceased. Have any thoughts? Sorry for the ramblings. Am a late bloomer trying to get my feet wet learning about flowering annuals and perennials I can grow on a very tight budget.
If you can find Elephant Garlic at a grocery store, you can plant those cloves. The same goes for regular garlic, too. It should be a lot cheaper that way. The plants may not be especially adapted to your area, but it won't be any worse than what you order online. Or if you are on Facebook, join a local gardening group on there and ask if anyone has extra to share. Folks growing Elephant Garlic or regular garlic usually have more than they will ever use. And you will be getting cloves from the plants that are doing well in your area.
Nice resourcefulness in getting those seeds. If you succeed in getting those seeds to germinate, if they smell like onions or garlic, you will know they are in the Allium family. Happy growing!
THANK YOU soooo much for the tip about the seeds I collected. AND also I will be going by the garlic cloves every time I go grocery shopping. I just am not sure if I will know whether they are Elephant garlic vs regular kind. I guess I compare and use my "judgment" > oooops that could be a bad thing. (sigh) LOL.
The Elephant Garlic will usually be featured by name, because it is more mild than most other garlic. Anf the cloves should be bigger than the other garlic. There is still time to plant garlic -- I'm working on mine this week in zone 8a in Oregon. Happy gardening! :D
I have Wild Elephant Garlic. Found it growing in the woods behind my house. Can I use it in cooking? It's in full bloom now.
Great idea! Thank you ❤️from Australia🌻
Do you leave the whole elephant garlic 🧄 in the ground and not pull it up to get the flowers 🌸?
Yes, exactly, SYBOLVE. After it flowers, that one elephant garlic clove will split and continue splitting each year, eventually making a clump of individual plants. I dig those clumps up for spring leeks. Elephant garlic is a great plant!
I just want to grow garlic for the flowers for my garden ,should I plant the entire garlic head or separate the cloves? also is it too late to put them in the ground if all I want is the flowers to bloom?
Yes thank you , great to know .
... Very respect Mam میم
It means we can grow elephant garlic from the pink very little seed which comes on the top of the garlic plants.? But it will take 2 or 3 years to make absolute elephant garlic...
Waiting for your valuable answer..
Thank you
Do you leave them in the ground after they die back? Perennial? Or do you have to dig them up and store them like other bulbs?
Yes, I leave them in the ground until I want to harvest the whole plant. Their bulb will split into cloves, so one plant will become a clump over time, with more flowers. When the clump gets too dense, I dig it up in the spring for spring leeks, like I show in this video: ruclips.net/video/m1A_vj3F2pY/видео.html There are so many great uses of Elephant Garlic! You might enjoy my playlist that shows eating their young leaves, their flowerstalks, and more. I hope you can enjoy some Elephant Garlic yourself. It's so underappreciated as a versatile plant in the flower garden and to eat! Here's the playlist -- ruclips.net/p/PLEGN8kE_KnjD6dEWNXksaTcnAbkS1kV7v Thanks for commenting!
Are the seeds going to grow new garlic in spring ?
I wasn't sure what these were but I saw them growing in my yard. I just bought the house a few months back. If I pull these up, will they still come back next year?
Sorry to miss your comment, Emily Short! In my experience, it seems like there is always at least one little bulblet that gets left behind, lol. And it's easy enough to leave some cloves in the ground to keep your crop going, too. I hope you've been enjoying your Elephant Garlic!
Great idea! 👌
Adoro este alho flor é um símbolo em Portugal no S.joao é lindo e dá sorte 😊
there are cultivars like 'ping pong' and i think 'Summer Drummer' is a hybrid beetween elephat garlic and maybe sphaecerlon
Happy thanksgiving. So I bought the bulb.
Do I separate the cloves and plant each separately or just drop the whole bulb?
Each separate clove will make a new elephant garlic bulb. If you plant the whole bulb all together, it will make a crowded clump. That clump is good for harvesting as Spring Leeks, but it's not the best result for large flowers or harvesting big elephant garlic bulbs. If your goal is large elephant garlic bulbs to eat, be sure to cut off the scapes (or flower stalks) when they first appear. If your goal is the large flowers, the bulbs will be smaller. But elephant garlic flowers are so pretty! Best of luck with them! :D
So once they flower the tops can not be planted back?
Where do you get the original bulbs from ??
Awesome 👍 thank you.
I use to have some of these and lived them...theynwere given to me...Where do u get yours?
This Elephant Garlic was already here when I bought my place in 1993. The original family that lived here had planted it, decades before. They only had to plant it once -- and now there's been over 50 years of Elephant Garlic here, sometimes well tended, other times taking care of itself. Some produce markets carry Elephant Garlic to eat. And it's just fine to plant those because they don't have much disease problem in a garden. Another source is Nichols Garden Nursery in Albany, Oregon. They say they are the originators of Elephant Garlic in 1950. I've enjoyed ordering things from them in past years (not sponsored, not an ad, not an affiliate).
@@HaphazardHomestead thanks...its.terribly expensive at our one grocery store in our hole in the wall town.
So much smarter to use this wow! I take it bees love these...lol
The bees love these flowers. Elephant garlic flowers can hold their own with any of the giant alliums, at a fraction of the cost!
Thanks for sharing .
i am in zone 7b when is the good time to plant them. its May now can i plant it now
JIMKOR October is the best time. I am in Oregon. They take 9 months to grow. I farm Elephant Garlic. Good luck. You can plant in Spring but they will be smaller
@@JimmyJackFarm I am also in zone 7b, will these survive winter of -10 degree Fahrenheit.
@@permatopiafarm1119 Yes you plant them deep enough and also add mulch to them
I know this is an old video, but if you are making multi part video you should number them so they will queue up one after another which will create more views. So if you are getting money for views that would help a lot...
That's a good idea. I'll put that on my list of things to get organized about my channel this month. I may put all the elephant garlic videos into a series or separate playlist. Thanks for the suggestion!
Even better idea there by putting them on a playlist I think that once a person watches them they will be directed straight away to watch more. Planting some Elephant garlic this fall for sure and finally getting warmer weather to pick more wild edibles.
In the netherlands i bought 2 mount everest bulbs for €2
i tried growing garlic on my own they sprout out so cute then about fourth of the way to grown they die. idk why.
When are you planting your garlic? So many of the garlics, including elephant garlic, are sensitive to changes in how long the day-light is. That's why it's good to plant them in the fall and let them over-winter. Then they grow in the spring and naturally die-back by mid-summer.
I totally planted these this year. . . .but those things are expensive as hell too. Hopefully they will spread and I wont have to buy more
I hope you get a good Elephant Garlic crop next summer, Charles Shields! They can seem expensive, for sure. But at least they aren't 3 for $29 like the fancy ornamental alliums. I get the Elephant Garlic coming up year after year, in different places around my yard - and they are easy to spread with the little offset bulbs that grow outside the main head of garlic cloves. I hope you have the same success as I've had - or more!
I have rabbits like crazy. . . Im hoping i plant enough garlic and onion to make them stay away. from everything. Those pigs eat everything I own.
I've been fortunate to not any any rabbit troubles. If you ever watch the "Edible Acres" channel, they use garlic and onions to keep rabbits and deer away, with pretty good success. So good luck!
@@rustyshields7190 lol...if the rabbits sont get it the squirrels will...but only after every snail and pill bug and other insects had tried to murder the plant.
It's tough out there! ; )
I love your videos, but you are quoting prices from White Flower Farm. My dad was a grounds manager and I grew up a couple miles from the farm (not the warehouse). That place is amazing, but they are crazy expensive and you can find places that may not be as good for a cheaper source.(they could be as good or better though) One of the good things when my dad worked there we got the stuff they were throwing out for free, so we had a crazy garden and landscape. If you go later in the season things for a lot less and in great condition, but not on line as much.
White Flower Farm is not cheap, that's for sure. You must have had beauty all around, with their stuff as the source and your dad as the grower. That is really special! Other sources of the giant allium bulbs are cheaper, for sure. But in general, elephant garlic is cheaper than them anywhere I've ever found. Good tip about getting bulbs for less cost, too.
Thanks. We had an amazing property. My mom completed a master gardener's course too. We had a German guy live with us for a while during his studies here in the States as he did his gardening studies abroad. A lot of gardening knowledge in that house. Wish I gleaned more.
I actually talked to both my mother an father about using the Elephant garlic as flower garden allium and for all the benefits of having the edible bits. Been looking for things that would make a good landscape garden for the front yard. Where I live you are not supposed to do an edible type garden in the front area.
In an area with gardening restrictions like that, elephant garlic is perfect. Everyone will be amazed at the flowers and you can have some plants tucked in there that you cut the flower stalks off of, too. The plants themselves have a nice structural form. Nobody will suspect you have food - they will just compliment you on your flowers! There are so many more plants like that, too. Happy gardening!
I just learned a while back that hostas are edible. Those things grow like crazy.
My elephant garlic bulb is big with beautiful big flower.
Can I assume the flowers are sterile and won't produce seeds? (like most garlic these days)
So I think i messed up. I bought hundreds of ornamental alliums then saw this video and immediately bought a bunch of elephant garlic and regular garlic. . . .and now i cant remember where I planted what and everything is all over the place. Does anybody know how to tell the difference between garlic, elephant garlic, and an ornamental? I want to keep the flowers on the ornaments but cut all the garlic and elephant garlic scapes so i get larger bulbs to plant next fall. Im afraid everything is going to look the same
I would like to exchange seeds with a similar original Romanian garlik seed.
so I can grow trufftula trees for free?
is this mouse resistent?
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