buying elephant garlic

[kymrob]

can anyone recommend where to buy elephant garlic from dont seem to find any in shops! can pm me  ;D

[kymrob]

[rog_pete]

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/gwm

free p n p and search elephant garlic, £7.99 not sure how that price compares

[chriscross1966]

It's not cheap anywhere.... about a third of my crop this year is going for seed... the biggest bulb in its entirety and the biggest clove off each of the other bulbs. I got two lots last year , one from DT Browns in their garlic selectrion pack, and the others from ebay... the ebay ones turned out best, one of them is a mammoth about 6" across...

chrisc

[Jayb]

Chrisc I'm sure I sent you some of mine, just wondered how they did?

[chriscross1966]

Eekk... yes you did.... they were the big ones... I'm having a bad brain day.... it was tree onions  I got on ebay :D....  Well there you go... the best place to get elephant garlic is from jayb!....

chrisc

[kymrob]

 ;D im really  looking forward to growing them! seen couple on websites they are expensive!  might hang on see if local shop have some 1st

[Jayb]

 ;D and there was I thinking they hadn't grown for you  ;D
Lucky you, only having a brain drain day, I'm having a couple of years of them :o

[flytrapman]

The largest cloves Ive bought have been from the Isle of wight garlic company, they sometimes have a stall at various food shows where they are cheaper than there seed garlic.
Wilkinsons sell them in spring I always wait until there discounted and plant them for the following year