Elephant Garlic

It's been a long time coming, but finally got some elephant garlic!

The missus went to Masterchef at Olympia the other day, and one of the stalls was selling it. They had 3 cloves left so she snapped them up. And they are huge!

Elephant garlic is not a true garlic - it's more closely related to leeks than to garlic, but forms a bulb of cloves like garlic does. It has a milder taste than normal garlic.

Having read up on growing elephant garlic, I have decided to grow it in large deep pots. They are the 9 and 10 inch pots that I normally use for tomatoes. I have used basic compost from the garden centre.

The cloves were buried about 2 inches deep and the pots left out on the patio with the other normal garlic. Now just need to wait and see what happens!