Elephant Garlic
Elephant Garlic
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Sold out for 2024 - back in stock autumn 2025
Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum
Elephant garlic is an excellent and easy crop to grow, it is very hardy and requires little to no effort. More closely related to leeks than garlic, elephant garlic produces very large cloves with a lovely mild leek like flavour and is less likely to suffer from problems with rust.
Plant individual cloves in about May/June (autumn) in good free draining, fertile soil. To develop good sized bulbs regular foliar feeding with liquid seaweed or similar through the growing season is recommended.
Oftentimes your cloves will grow into a ‘round’ instead of a bulb with multiple cloves - a round looks more like an onion as it has not split into cloves - this is perfectly normal, you can either eat the round as you would a clove or keep to plant in the next season.
A planted round will typically develop into a very large elephant garlic bulb made up of 4-6 cloves.
Sold as individual cloves (1)
or
Sold as a bulb which will contain from 3-6 cloves
Either option are suitable to be eaten or planted out.
Organically grown and spray free.
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Currently our focus is on providing plants to our local communities, for us this is from Dunedin to Invercargill, we will hand deliver plants to either your address or to our depot in Invercargill for you to collect.
The exception to this is seeds and dry goods which we are happy to post anywhere in New Zealand.
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Are you certified organic?
At this point we are not certified organic. However we do operate organically, using holistic and regenerative processes. We do not use any herbicides, pesticides, fungicides etc that are harmful to us, our environment or our wildlife.
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