Elephant

Description

Our Elephant Garlic (Allium ampeloprasum) is the gentle giant every backyard gardener loves: enormous 3–5+ inch bulbs weighing ½–1 pound each, wrapped in delicate ivory-white skins with faint purple blushing at the base. Inside you’ll find just 4–6 massive, mild-flavored cloves; each the size of a regular whole head of garlic; that taste like a sweet, mellow cross between garlic and leek, with none of the sharpness that scares off kids or sensitive palates. Perfect for roasting whole (40 minutes at 400 °F until caramel-sweet and spreadable), grilling in steaks, slicing raw into salads, or simply baking and squeezing onto crusty bread. Jumbo, disease-free planting bulbs thrive in Montrose’s high-desert sun, store 8–10 months, peel in seconds, and deliver jaw-dropping size that makes gardening friends jealous; plant one pound (about 8–12 huge cloves) in fall and harvest 12–18 pounds of these crowd-pleasing monsters next summer.