On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:52:11 +0100, JNTDAD
wrote:


I also grow Elephant Garlic which is "hard Neck" and still growing - I
have grown some of this from saved cloves but these have produced small
bulbes about the size of a golf ball but solid - no cloves - any ideas
why?

Elephant garlic (Allium ampeloprasum) is more closely related to leeks
than it is to either soft-neck garlic (Allium sativum ) or hard-neck
garlic (Allium sativum var.ophioscorodon).
Quite often, elephant garlic requires two growing seasons. Plant the
solid cloves this fall and you should get much larger bulbs with a few
individual cloves next year.
We grow it more as a novelty as it has no real garlic flavour to speak
of, more like "garlic for people who don't like garlic".

Ross.