HUGE Elephant Garlic Harvest From The Allotment Garden
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2019
- HUGE Elephant Garlic Harvest From The Allotment Garden
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I grow a lot of elephant garlic and the corms you planted are not bulbils they are corm. These hard corm are really the plants survival technique.. They are harder than the cloves that you break from the main bulb and will survive up to three even four years in the soil. This means that if the plant has one or two bad growing seasons they will survive. Sometimes these are so hard they take growers more than one year to get them to grow. You can use them to increase the growing stock of any garlic with particularly good flavour as they grow true to form and they will save much longer than standard cloves so can use over several years if you want to.
Bulbils are small, tiny little bulbs that grow in the flower head if you leave it to flower. They are not seeds but another type of bulb that will grow true to form, unlike seeds. You can also use these to increase your growing stock and take two to three years to get to corm size. Not all elephant garlic grow these and those that do, do not get them in all years but there are hundreds of them when they do.
These garlic plants are a home growers dream. You can eat the leaves as they grow, we use them to make stock. You can eat the scape (the flower head and stalk), we use them in stir fry and chopped in salad. If you leave the flower to open the little florets are ace in salad and mild. If the head produces bulbils you can gather them and throw them into anything we don't even wash them they are great in soup and stir fry or crushed in salad we also throw them in pickles, we never save them they don't save well and if we are growing them we plant them straight from picking. If you leave them to seed they produce hundreds of little black seed you can use in any dish that calls for onion seeds and they save well. When you harvest you can use the stems just like you would leeks and of course you can use the cloves as you would anyway. You can even eat the hard corms if you want to once you get the shell off. We roast our elephant garlic whole and have them with a good soft cheese. and salad.
Please enjoy and I hope it helps
Wow, thank you so much for this information, so informative!
Amazing info! I never tried elephant garlic bc it's so expensive but I bought pearl garlic once on sale & LOVED that I only had to peel 1 bulb. Spent years looking for seeds to grow to only find out it's elephant garlic before splitting🤣. So now I'm trying to grow it. You sound like you know lots, love your tips. Thanks!
I found a vendor at the farmers market selling huge elephant garlic bulbs for $5 each. I bought 2 and planted one. I roasted one whole bulb and made garlic aioli with it. Very mild. The bulbils formed round bulbs this year. I'm going to plant them this Fall in a sperate bed. Beautiful harvest Erica. Well done.
Cheers
Jane
Oh, that's great. Really can't wait to eat these!
Thanks so much for the elephant garlic that you gave to me Erica, I absolutely love it and will be growing lots more in 2021.
Lovely looking harvest, well done Erica! 💚
Thanks, cant wait to eat it.
Interesting variety , am trying to grow garlic for the first time this fall , have three varieties but these look like i should find some
Oh boy, you've done really well there! Got a few to come up here but don't think they are anywhere near as big. Fantastic!
Wow 😍well done Erica they look fantastic ,on my list for next year ,thanks for showing us 👍
Do it, you won't be disappointed.
Brilliant harvest. You are obviously well chuffed. Well done you. Mags
Totally! Thanks for watching Mags.
Wow, that's some nice looking garlic. I am thinking about planting some of that in the fall.
Do it!
Well done you what an amazing result give encourgement to everyone . A big👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the encouragement!
Well done Erica, make sure you keep some back for planting, it is so expensive to buy, that was a lovely harvest, kind regards
alan🌿
THE DAWN CHORUS PLOT
Yes, I'm scared are going to rot or something.
Great harvest of elephant garlic Erica well done Jan💐
Thank you Jan. So happy with this harvest.
Fabulous result!
Thank you.
Wow! Didn't know there was garlic that big! They almost looked liked corn stalks coming up out of the ground!
Yes they do look BIG they are actually a Leek so that would make sense that they are bigger.
They all look gorgeous might try some next year myself.
Do it Tracy! So exciting.
Great harvest of elephant garlic Erica 👍
Thank you Woody!
Erica You must be over the moon. They are huge, Ooh roasted garlic, delicious. Excellent video xx 🌱🌈🌝
I know, can't wait to try some! Maybe tomorrow for dinner!
cracking harvest
Thanks for watching
I have just ordered some Elephant Garlic to plant as perennials in place of Decorative Alliums (much cheaper). A couple of years ago I spent a small fortune on Alliums but not one came up. Apparently one needs a cold winter so thought I would give Elephant Garlic a try.
Well done Erica!
Thank you!
I did not know that about the little bulb from the garlic. We have some from our hard neck and soft neck garlic. I will keep them now and try to replant them. Thanks for sharing Erica
Its always great when you find something new out!
Awesome update thank you for sharing and making these videos
Thanks Linda.
Wow! Those are huge!
I don’t grow garlic as eating it makes me ill so I’ve been watching you and others grow it from the autumn wishing I could!
Well you could always grow some to gift to others. It's been really easy to grow.
Excellent harvest Erica! Might have to add elephant garlic to my 'to plant' list :)
Do it! You won't be disappointed!
Well done Erica - been waiting for this one!
Yes, the bulbils will take 2 years to produce cloves. It is best to treat them like normal cloves and plant them out after drying for Autumn.
Steve
Haha, I have been getting behind on the editing! Thanks for confirming ny thoughts on the bulbils etc.
Great harvest, mine will be out this weekend 😉
Hope you have a great harvest!
Hi Erica wow your Garlic is amazing 😲Happy growing 🌽🥕🌶🍅🍓🍒
Cheers Dave!
Nice sized bulbs there. Bet your well chuffed.
Elephant garlic has a milder flavour than regular garlic, despite being larger. I often just roast individual cloves and squeeze the insides out with my teeth. Those little corms that dangle off the bottom of the bulb can hang around in the ground for years before sprouting. The first year they will grow into a round and the second year they will form a nice sized head. I have the odd one popping up in several beds I grew it in years ago. They will make more of the babies each year they grow.
If you can allocate a bit of space you can pop them all into their own perennial patch and then harvest the rounds to plant out to form heads.
Yes very excited by this, thanks for the advice about roasting it.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden I've just harvested mine and put a video up showing what I do with the corms.
A great garlic harvest .i never did find my bulbs so no garlic for me this year. Heard you can eat bulbs too cheers Ray
Oh no, there is always next year.
Indeed they are large. Massive. Well done LWPP👍😊🥁❤
Totally! MASSIVE and BIG! 😍
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden one could almost say ELEPHANT SIZED.😊
Yes, totally! 😂
About 25 yrs ago I was given what the man said he thought was wild onions. I planted the and they were elephant garlics from a commercial grow from many years before and let go wild. Still growing them and eating. Normally I grow 75 plants. That gives me ones for next year and rest for eating. Entered the local county’s fair and won 2nd place. Enjoy your new big “leek” garlics. From sw oregon.
Wow! It's great to know you've kept it going so long. Think how many food miles you've saved too!
Amazing! I'm definitely trying these next year 🌺
If I have some spare cloves I will send you some x
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden that would be awesome, but only if you have spare, thank you 💚🌺
Haha, lets see how tasty it is first.
I've never grown this, I've never been able to find any. However, you gave me a big hint saying ebay, thank you Erica! I'll have to get a ebay account!
You can get them from the really garlic farm too in Isle of White. Not sure if that's the correct name but Google can help out if you search for that.
Ha ha - I've just filmed exactly the same thing with the bulbils! I've put mine in a pot, labelled them (or I'd DEFINITELY forget they were there!) and leaving them for a year to bulk up into monobulbs then planting them out next Autumn. If I remember! Yours look great - I hope you've eaten some by now - we had ours roasted with a whole load of other veg - delicious!
I am saving them so I haven't eaten any yetn maybe tomorrow. Thanks for doing your video on them as it inspired me. So as well as mother nature I should also thank you for my lovely harvest.
Hi Erica, that's a really good idea to put the bulbils into a pot for their first season. Hope they do well for you, keep us posted on how they get on :-)
Will do, thank you for watching.
Beautiful garden and you're elephant garlic are very healthy-looking. I love growing elephant garlic and been doing so for the past 4 years. You could grow them all year round they don't mind the cold and they definitely don't mind the Heat. If you're in an area where you're going to get frostbite then I would just put them in containers and just bring them underneath the cover you don't even have to bring them inside and they will thrive. I don't even water mine that much I found that watering them once a week is sufficient and they do very well. As mine are growing I can't wait so I go ahead and start stealing some of the green leaves man chop them up indifferent stir-fries and recipes they are delicious. I don't strip the plant of too many of them and when I do take some from each plant I let the leaves grow back so they could get energy from the Sun to the garlic. But I have noticed that when I remove some of the leaves before harvesting the garlic that I use in salads and such I've noticed that the Garlic's are larger on those plants than the ones that I didn't touch and remove any leaves and its earlier life. I guess it's forcing more energy to the garlic bulb rather than to the foliage. I'm not very sure but that's what it sure does seem like. I love elephant garlic and I love the fact that you can plant them anywhere in your garden underneath trees and spaces that you never thought or imagined to use which helps take up valuable space giving you more. Once again thank you for a very wonderful video and you have many others that I very much enjoyed thank you for everything great job keep up the great work and like always God bless
I am so sorry it has taken me so long to reply to your video!! I do love Elephant Garlic! Thank you for watching.
Wow Erica they are huge. Super job . My first year growing garlic, they went in late. Im delighted for you that they worked out so well. Thanks for sharing.
Well I hope yours are big monsters when you come to harvest them!
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden i doubt it. My first time , so small will even do me ha ha.
@@lorraineg8134 it was my first time too!
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden well now girl you got something great going on. Big high fuve. So i checked mine today, i didnt do too many , dont think all surving, a few that are doing well but not ready yet.
Hi Erica, great timing! I bought one bag last fall and it was quite expensive and only had 3 cloves, so that is all I have to harvest. This is my first year growing elephant garlic, too, and, with only 3, I didn't want to mess up. I am going to go dig one out now. Wish me luck! :)
Good luck! Hope they do well.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden thank you! I pulled one last night and it was a fail. Only a little larger than a golf ball and just one thing, not cloves. Not sure what I did wrong. Maybe I should have fed it more?
I found elephant garlic to plant just by buying a small bag of them in the grocery store. They did great. I now buy organic potatoes to plant instead of ordering the expensive seed potatoes in the seed catalogs.
Oh that's great. I have never seen it for sale before. I only found out about it last year.
great content
Interesting video thank you
Hi Erica, those elephant garlic are massive. I’ve got some growing. Hope they do better than my normal garlic that seems to have been destroyed by leaf miner. Take care. Nick
Oh no, don't think we have the leaf miner here (yet).
Hi Erica! I have been watching your channel for some time and thoroughly enjoy it. For the first time, I will be planting elephant garlic this fall and it was fun and encouraging to see your harvest. Also, I found you through Liz Zorab's channel. Isn't she delightful?
Hi Audrey, yes I like Liz lots too! Thanks for visiting and leaving such a nice comment.
Elephant garlic is in the leek family, now I see the relation
😊
Harvesting my first ever garlic at the weekend Erica and I am hoping I have the same success you have had.
♻️Happy Gardening........🌻Terry King 🌞
Oh wow, can't wait to see your harvest. I am surprised you have never grown it in the past though.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden Mike Hurdis sent me some cloves as I am too tight to buy some....lol.
Haha, that's a good answer.
Looks like Corn stalks.......Wow!
I know! I was very happy with the harvest
Snap! I think we're also going to be self sufficient in garlic this year (and into next) too. Super harvest Erica! Not tried elephant garlic but the size of it does look rewarding. Might try it one year. All the best! 😃
I just hope my garlic stores well!
Fingers crossed for you! We're in exactly the same boat. We felt we lifted it too early because of the rust and fear that the sudden wet weather would cause it to rot in the ground. Oh well, if it looks like it's going off we can always have very garlicy garlic bread with extra garlic! :) Vampires wont be troubling us! :)
Love garlic bread.
I'm surprised I hadn't seen this video before! I thought I'd seen all the elephant garlic videos... Checked up on mine this morning. All 24 cloves planted in October last year doing well. Considering I bought only 10 cloves from the Garlic Farm the previous year, it's a great return, and will keep on giving.... I'm struggling in growing on the bulbils though. Perhaps they'll shoot come the warmer weather?
I don't think I got any of the bulbils to grow when I tried! Elephant Garlic really do seem to grow well though.
Hi Reica, I have harvested my elephant garlic too. I put the Corms streight back in the ground where I havest my garlic. I have done this before about three years ago. The Corms do not always germinate in the first yeart, mine germinated/grow in the second year to singles and producted the Elephant garlic in the 3rd year.
That's what I heard toom did you have a good harvest? Thanks for watching.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden Yes, Great - I did Red and White ordanary Garlic and Two types of Elephant Garlic all hanging from the Garage Roof drying, for the next two or three weeks. It is a Galvanised Tin Roof, so will get quite warm when the sun is on it - Helps to set up convection currents to get the air moving to help with drying?
Ohhh that sounds like it's going to dry nicely.
Last year I bought three bulbs from a market stall. £5 for the 3, nobody wanted them.
I planted the cloves at Xmas because that was when I bought them. I froze half (after watching a video) and planted the others unfrosted. It made no difference at all, both lots grew really well but weren't ready for harvest till late July. I had about an 80% success rate per clove, with the finished bulbs having 5 to 7 cloves each.
As to their origin, it is a bit of a myth that they are closer related to leeks than common garlic.
Both are forms of Allium but leeks are Allium Porrum from the family Amaryllicidea.
Elephant garlic is a subdivision of Allium Sativum. No variety of leek forms corms, the small tubers formed on the outside of the corms are just a coincidental morphic development.
Interesting results there! I've lost these bulbs now so I'm really sad!
The little thingies on the roots are called corms.
I know that now. Thank you for watching 😂
i tried growing the baby bulbs, only 2 grew, out of 50ish. Mikulov garlic 'flowers' however, great result. Not mono bulb, like I got with Tuscan garlic, 4 small cloves. Try Mikulov garlic, its an interesting 2 year grow.
Hello, really sorry about the late reply! That sounds really interesting, one of mine came to anything.
@Millie Miladinov I haven’t grown any from seeds yet ( I mean true seeds , like the ones of onions or leeks ) . Got only a handful of seeds from about 6 plants , will try to leave more plants eventually . At the moment we have about 8 growing together . The problem is that the seeds take very long time to ripe . I think it’s best to take them if the plants before they start to dry and harvest you bulbs ( and corms , those like bulbs attached to the root , probably 6-8 each plant ) . If you are in US check Garlicana , they usually have TGS-true garlic seeds ( Allium sativum ) . Had loads of bulbils from our plants and they are growing nicely now , planted them starting from October to January . Good luck 👍!
Great advice
I'll have to see if I can get a bulb or two to grow.
How many garlic cloves (all varieties) did you plant?
Probably about 70 odd. 🤔
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Hey Erica FANTASTIC HARVEST! I cant wait to get mine up my garlic i harvested today has been the best ive ever grown! Still a month until i harvest my 1st ever elephant garlic! The bulbils just pop them in somewhere and forget about them for a couple years you will soon get a good harvest! As for the cloves use them as you would normal garlic if it says 1 clove use one clove they are alot milder in taste than normal garlic
Can't wait to see your harvest too! So exciting!
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Hi Erica Just found your site from Jane's site lovely video look forward to seeing more Erica could you say where you bought you Elephant garlic from Thanks Pam 😊
I got this from ebay but I think the garlic farm sell them, you can find them on Google.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden Thank you
I eat raw garlic because I find it keeps any symptoms of potential colds and flu and other infections away. I have been busy forking out weeds today up at my allotment. My next day off work is Thursday so I will be back at it then. I am working at the weekend so I will probably be doing it sometime time next week when I have time off work.
I have heard about eating raw garlic beign good for you. Maybe I should.
I have just planted some of this in a large pot. I have never grown them before and have only ever eaten fresh. Just wondering if you were able to store any successfully?
I still have some stored and it is still really fresh! Go for it.
I've had mixed luck planting the corms (the little bulb things). But I have only tried planting them for the past two years and now am wondering if you have the right idea by planting them now. I've both years waited to plant them until I plant out my garlic cloves- in the late fall- usually November (I live in Upstate NY zone 5). I am curious to see if yours have a better rate of success. At any rate, what I've found is that those that grow form a bulb. Sort of like a big garlic that doesn't have separate cloves. Then if you plant that bulb the next fall, it will grow into the normal head. So it's a two year process instead of one when you plant cloves. Or at least that's been the case for me. But again, I haven't had the greatest rate of success so will be reading the comments to see what others have found over the years.
Someone was saying they just put theirs straight back in the ground and can take up to 2 years to sprout. Maybe it's just a bit hit and miss.
Enjoy watching here.,,,really super woman erica.
Thanks!
Wow they are kinda huge. Are you able to use the leaves like leeks, as they’re related, or is it just the garlic bulbs you can eat?
I don't think so because you leave them to dry so they would probably be a bit manky when you came to eat them.
Erica's Little Welsh Garden Ahh didn’t think of that. Doh!
Hi Erica .
Looks awesome 👍!
Well done .
I’ve been growing them for a few seasons .
Left a few to go to seed this year and it’s massive , about 6 feet tall 😅!
Oh wow, might have to try that next year.
Hi Erica . They are pretty flowers and pollinators like them . Would like to grow some from seed 🐝👏!
@@ionutbarbu82 what is your experience growing from seed?? I have 2 that are in seed right now, my first time growing them, had a smaller yeald but taste great! Also should I hold the bulbils for fall planting? I am in TX
How did this elephant garlic store? I sprayed off my garlic harvest once from a video I saw and a huge part of my garlic harvest rotted. After I cleaned them off I let them dry off in the sun a few hours
Even some of the garlic I sent my sister's and mom went bad. It was a disaster...
I'm not sure what you mean by sprayed off? Do you mean you washed it? Mine stores absolutely fine and some got replanted the year after.
I planted my elephant garlic later on last year and I was just wondering if there might be a reason why they aren’t looking like they are ready yet? Great video 👍🏻
You could always try and harvest one and see how it's doing before you them all up? Thanks for watching.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden i harvested one accidentally this morning as it’s stalk was a bit bashed so I picked it. I have a picture but I don’t know how how to post it
how do you know when theyre ready to harvest? Ive heard youre supposed to wait till they brown up, but you seem to be pulling them while green
I just pulled one to see the size and I could see it was ready. But yes you can wait for them to go brown too but I would worry they might go bad.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden I planted 10 last year, but 3 of them disappeared in the last month. I thought badgers, but perhaps the poachers were of the human kind. People have their eyes on these, don't wait TOO long ;-)
They tend to have a milder garlic flavour than normal garlic
Yeah, they taste so good! 😊
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden will be planting my garlic and Broad beans this weekend for next year
Nice one, I'll be trying for the week after.
Erica, did the bulbs grow? I'm curious 😊😊🧐🤔
No because I don't know what happened to them after I filmed this video. 😬
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden haha!!! Oh no!! 😹😹😹
I'd like to plant it but I didn't find it in Italy... 😭
`Oh no, are you not able to get any? That is a shame.
can you tell me what is difference between elephant garlic&pakistani NARC G1 garlic
I'm sorry, I don't know the difference as I've not heard of the second one.
Hi! Do you sell Elephant Garlic SEEDS? Or know where I can buy them?
I got these off Ebay.
i eat leeks and garlic. i don't know why i've never grown elephant garlic before. i can only think lack of space...................brian
Try it next season!
Is that what they grow in Spain? Does the skin turn purple when dry?
No, they stay white when they dry. Not sure about them growing in Spain sorry.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden here they sometimes have from Spain 2 types. One is very expensive at $32 a kilo and the other as big as these u have here but much cheaper and with a purple shell.
judging by what you've said, elephant garlic can be used instead of wet garlic ?.......................brian
No idea. 🤔
From where elephant seed can be purchased
Lots off seed suppliers sell it.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden any name, who can export to Pakistan
No idea, sorry.
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Are you supposed to wash them, I thought you just dried them and then brush off the dirt.
Well I didn't actually wash these in the end. The other lot I peeled the muddy layer off and it dried lovely and very clean.
You look like Elizabeth Holmes
Well im not sure if that's a compliment or an insult? 😂
Can u help me
Thank you for watching, not sure I can help you though.
My carrots just died :/
Can hardly understand her.
What bit don't you understand?
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden Your accent.
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