How To Grow Elephant Garlic
If you leave some cloves in the ground each year you can end up with a perennial elephant garlic patch if youre lucky.
How to grow elephant garlic. Clay loams are a much better option as compared to sandy soils for garlic. About the size of a crocus bulb and darker and thicker skinned than the cloves within the main bulb. Save these and plant next year in January.
Make sure to water regularly during dry months with less rainfall. Like its namesake elephant garlic prefers high soil fertility and good drainage. Elephant garlic Allium ampeloprasum var.
In a few weeks green shoots will appear above ground. 23 mins. Elephant garlic plants prefer to grow in full sun meaning at least six hours of direct sunlight on most days.
We recently harvested our elephant garlic and in this video I will re-plant some of the corms to make new plantable cloves which in a couple of years will. It is fantastically versatile in t. Elephant Garlic Care Light.
Grow a cover crop and work it into the soil the season prior to planting. Your Elephant Garlic will then be ready to harvest in the summer during June or July. I use a soaker hose to give my plants a regular drink.
Add lots of well-rotted leaf mold aged manure or compost to build humus and fertility. It wont tolerate overcrowding from other plants and needs to be planted at least 20cm away from any. All you need to be sure of is that there is adequate surface drainage.