ELEPHANT GARLIC - The Garlic You Can Grow Anywhere! 

We leave the king snakes alone as well.

Wonderful! Thanks for your support LaDonna

The elephant garlic should do well in your area. The other garlic -- well, better hope for a really cold winter.

Thanks for spreading the word! Hope you get to feeling better. And GO DAWGS!

We're the same way. We grow more and more garlic every year!

We would agree with all of those points.

I just read that elephant garlic takes two years to mature. Is this true? I'm in gulf coast area aswell

That mulch should provide some solid insulation for your garlic.

without him, i have no way of plowing, or getting any kind of a garden ready. wanted to plant elephant garlic, couldn't get this year but will save and make sure to get some next year and ordered onions, so i till have to just did a ditch with a hoe and pray for the best. my dad, its purple hull peas, whole garden every year, EVERY YEAR and tomatoes that he won't even stake up right. i just shake my head and walk out of the garden, can't watch. LOLOL

Haha. Sounds like you need your own garden. The folks at Cog Hill are indeed good people. We might be making a little visit to see them very soon!

Patience grasshopper. Our shallots have nice looking roots, but no greenery yet.

@@gardeningwithhoss I have one that's got green as of today. It's not the shallots I'm praying over it's the carrots... those things just never seem to work well for me. Hoping those pelleted seeds are the answer. Saturday will be day 7... probably come up just in time for the frost next week... gonna have to cover them.

Welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard!

Thanks, looking forward to the pictures

Glad to hear the shed is finally coming down!

@@gardeningwithhoss Whoohoo!!!

I am also in zone 9b & was going to say the same thing about the hazards of straw in the garden. You said it so well, that I don't need to add another word. I now have a neighbor who is spraying roundup on his 11 acres & my garden is showing the signs of death from his stupidity on Native Plants & their beneficial effects on the soil. It's the downside of living too close to one another.

Are you in SC?

Thank you very much!

Sorry about that, thanks for letting us know.

Thanks for your order Brian. Hope you have a great elephant garlic crop this coming year.

I've been keeping track of what I've done with this crop and have perhaps some valuable info. I'll be sure to share my results when I'm done. Havent watered them a drop since put down.

You're welcome. Hope you have a great crop this year!

Waiting patiently as well.

Ms Hoss is planting hers in a container this year also. Good luck

@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks. Good luck with Ms Hoss's also.

Same here.

Wow! That's some fast growth! Give it plenty of water and nitrogen and it should do well for you!

It's so much easier and so much faster than bending over!

Sounds great!

You'll be fine.

We used the PVC pipe with shallots last year and it didn't work so well for us because the sets didn't orient in the soil properly. Probably should have used a smaller pipe.

We'll probably do that next week.

Good cos I’m dying to see what collards look like. Thanks!

Go for it!

Anything really. Might want to amend the soil before planting something else because garlic can be heavy feeders. So you might want to fertilize before planting another crop. Good to hear they're growing great!

We like to use 20-20-20 initially once they sprout to help with root formation, but then we switch to Ammonium Sulfate (hosstools.com/product/ammonium-sulfate/) every 3-4 weeks or so.

Hope you have a great crop this year!

How are you doing with Elephant garlic?

@@mdislam6381 Watch my RU-vid channel @chesnokalmaty ))

Good to hear! Ours is about 4-5" tall right now.

Gotta earn their keep!

Thanks for your order! Enjoy!

We've never planted ginger, but wouldn't mind giving it a try!

It does appear to be just one huge ball until it dries and you break off the outer skin. I thought the same thing as it being my first year growing it in the raised beds. It was only planted a year and did great.

That is one downfall of straw -- hard to tell if it has lots of grass seeds until it's too late.

Probably next week.

It needs about 1 inch per week.

@@gardeningwithhoss thank you

Check out the video below where we discuss how to plant., separate the bulbs, do not soak, do not peel. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oFlVbZg6s30.html

It depends on your zone. In mild climates, you can plant garlic cloves as late as February or March, but the resulting bulbs won't be as large. However, you can still enjoy the garlic scapes during the summer. (Scapes are the plant's tender green shoots and have a mild garlic flavor.

From our experiences, it will grow but it won't stratify and make a bulb with many cloves. You might have better luck than we did though. Hope for the best.

Go for it!

In late September early October, and yes you can use tractor to lay off the rows

Not yet! Should plant in early November

I just planted some and my stepdad said to plant only in august or December . We live in the South and he has grown elephant garlic successfully many many years, so it could just be southeast.

no

Not sure if it can be grown in tropical weather. We have some customers in Florida who grow it, but that's not necessarily tropical.

@@gardeningwithhoss Thank you for your immediate response. Interested to grow this variety. Also, have this option to grow in Baguio City with nice weather condition. My question is that, do you have available stock for me to order? And, how much will it cost now, also the shipping? Thank you again.

Unfortunately, we are not able to ship seeds internationally. We can ship tools and supplies overseas, just not seeds.

Certain varieties will grow. The Elephant Garlic is very suited to the warm climate conditions, as they are day length neutral, which means they don't need 12 hour day length to start bulbing and have a short growth cycle of only 5.5 - 6 months.

We can not ship garlic out to US

yes

We've heard of folks putting them in the fridge before planting. And we've even tried that -- with little luck. But we're happy just sticking with the elephant garlic.

Not sure of the origin. We bought a 20 bale load from a friend of a friend.

plant now and let it over winter

@Hoss Tools OK Thanks u

Closer to 30 lbs. We shall see how much we harvest!

So if

We covered it completely.

@@gardeningwithhoss thanks Hoss

I didn't care for it. Made it hard to tell when the onions were starting to bulb -- which is when I'll stop fertilizing them. I'd much rather just do a light cultivation around and between them every week or two.

Thanks for sharing

We just plant the cloves.

We've heard of folks doing that. We've tried it and it didn't work so well for us.

We've heard that and tried it once, but still couldn't get them to stratify. We've heard from some of our subscribers that there are a few varieties that tend to do better in the southern states. Can't remember the names of those varieties. But if you look through the comments on the elephant garlic planting video we did a few weeks ago, you'll see it.

Nope. That's what we like to grow it down here in south GA. It doesn't require cold weather to stratify.

Fresh wheat straw can certainly create more weed problems than it solves.

Put the straw in for the chickens to pick over (same goes for pea straw) - if you have chickens, that is! They’ll clean up your straw varieties from any or all seeds.

Depends on how many of those families you plant. Most always folks plant nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, eggplant), cucurbits (cucumbers, squash, melons, pumpkins, etc.), and brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, etc.). Those are three big ones, but there are other families you may plant that would benefit from rotation as well.

Squash, broccoli, cauliflower, beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, corn, carrots, melons, potatoes 🤔

Little bulbs on the side are called corms and you can either eat them (but they're a pain in the rear to peel down to the small bulb), or you can plant them in mid-summer and they'll come up in the fall. I plant them in an area where I can just leave them alone, and I planted about 800 last summer and probably had five or six hundred of them that sprouted in the fall, and they made small bulbs which will turn into larger bulbs when I replant them. The corms will form on the sides of all of the elephant garlic bulbs regardless of the "mother" bulbs size. The bulbs that bloom, that send up a bloom spike, will typically be the ones that split or subdivide themselves. You can let them dry out for a few weeks, and peel them down and see the individual bulbs. Sometimes a small bulb will turn into a large bulb that doesn't divide, and it typically does not bloom if it does not divide itself. You can either eat it or plant it the following year to get a really large bulb that divides itself. I've grown elephant garlic for years, and it's fairly straightforward to grow and is a reliable producer. I pull mine up whenever they start to have brown leaves at the bottom, typically whenever about half of the leaves have turned brown, you need to get them out of the ground because if you wait too long, the layers of tissue like skins that hold the bulbs together will decay and you'll just get a clump of loose bulbs instead of a tightly bound cluster like you get at the grocery store. Good luck have fun.

@@quintyoung thanks for that. Is there and email where I can send a photo to you. So the big bulb with no clove lines is drying in my garage. How do I preserve it to replant next year? I'm in central Florida and it's getting hot but there is green on my elephant garlic and one looks like it is sending up a flower. If I understand correctly that one will have cloves not just one big bulb. If I have more big bulbs are you saying that I can dry it out and eat it? Will it taste the same. Sorry for all the questions my first time growing or eating elephant garlic.

hey sure, you can look for me on Facebook, I put some of my garden pics there, just posted some pics of my elephant garlic. my fb is just under the name you see here, or email me at my RU-vid user name @gmail.com (no spaces)

It does look like a big onion when pulled. Once it is dried, the cloves inside will be visible.

We will not have it again until October. Prices will be different. Please sign up for the restock notification.

We do in the spring with crops like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, etc. But not in the fall because it's usually warm enough to where we don't need it. And most of the crops we're starting in the fall like cooler soil temps.

Any links to the heat pad you recommend

I am struggling with my onion and lettuce starts

This is the one we use: hosstools.com/product/germination-mat/. It's commercial grade and will last a while. We've got mats we've been using for 8 plus years and they're still good as new.

Good to know!

The ones we've grown taste and smell like garlic. Even makes your hands smell like garlic after planting it.

We do ship internationally, just use our international checkout on our website.

Go to The garlic farm from the Isle of Wight!

Because we like to get two rows of produce from one row of drip tape -- it's just a way to maximize our garden space. You could certainly do them on single rows on the ridges.

Unfortunately, we can ship seeds internationally.

We will have it on our site in September.