How to use elephant garlic leaves 

This video is about using the leaves of the Elephant Garlic. I use a lot of elephant garlic leaves.
Welcome to video number four in a seven-part series about using all the different parts of elephant garlic. There is a lot more to this great plant than just the giant bulbs and cloves.
I do not pick leaves from the elephant garlic that I'm growing to make the big bulbs. I don't want any energy being lost or diverted from going into the big bulbs. I do pick leaves from the elephant garlic that I'm growing for flowers, or for spring leeks, or that frow as weeds around where I live. Between all thouse options (flowers, spring leeks, and weeds), there are plenty of elephant garlic leaves to use!
Maybe you are thinking - Hey, what do you use these leaves for? I think their best use is in fresh salads. I use them in so many garden and weed salads. But the chopped leaves are good in scrambled eggs or Ramen noodle soup, too - nothing so complicated that their flavor gets lost.
I pick and use elephant garlic leaves starting in the late fall or early winter, when the bulbs start sprouting in the cooler weather. I keep picking leaves until mis-spring. As the elephant garlic leaves get bigger, they get a stronger, hotter flavor and they start to get a little tough.
But there is one more thing I can make with the elephant garlic leaves at that stage. It sounds strange, but it is amazing, and that's fermented elephant garlic leaves. They are delicious! I'm going to post a separate video about how to make and use fermented elephant garlic leaves, so stay tuned for that.
Well, I hope you are enthused about planting more elephant garlic or getting more out of the elephant garlic that you already have.
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