Description

For the harvest season 2026, I only have available Elephant  garlic corms.

Elephant Garlic

Elephant garlic is not a true garlic, although it has the growth habit of hard neck garlic. It is actually in the leek family, and is considered a bulbing leek.  I find that in order to get a good bulb in my soil, I need to harvest them before the lowest leaf turns yellow.

Also know that their scapes rarely curl. They generally just point straight up and then produce a flower. From what I’ve been told, the seeds of this flower are sterile. You can eat the escape just like you can with any scape from hard neck garlic. You want to snap it or cut it off the plant before it gets too old or too woody.

Corms

One order will include 20 corms (seeds).
The seed/corms from Elephant Garlic are found hanging from the roots of the bulbs or sometimes stuck to the outside of a clove. Each corm, if replanted, will produce a garlic round (one whole round piece of garlic). That round, if replanted, will produce a nice big bulb of garlic the following season.

Corms need to be peeled or knicked and or soaked to help them germinate.   Their  outside shell is so hard that putting them in the ground and hoping that mother nature dissolves them in time for them to grow is very risky and unreliable.

Bulbs

I sell Elephant Garlic by the bulb not by the pound. One order is for one bulb.

Most bulbs contain 4+ cloves, sometimes even up to 7. Plant, harvest, and cure as you would hard neck garlic, making sure to snap or cut off the scapes as they are produced.