Anyone else got Elephant garlic thats not showing?

[CDave]

Planted a few different varieties in November. Allmost all have an inch or more green growth. Except Elephant garlic. Planted 3 bulbs - 20 cloves? and not one is showing any sign of greenery or growing. Am I being too impatient?

[zazen999]

Yes.

i planted mine in pots and there is only half an inch of greenery so if they are planted deeper in the proper ground i can see them taking longer to show.

[chris]

Mine aren't showing either

[stella]

I got some for Christmas and not a peep from them yet, in fact they look a bit soggy

[Jeanied]

I've tried Elephant garlic a couple of times over the years. It has never showed so I have given up trying it!

[Aberdeenplotter]

None of my garlic or my overwintering onions are showing. I was maybe too late in planting at the beginning of November up here but no way could we have planned for such an early onset to winter. My fingers and everything else are crossed that all will be ok but time alone will tell.

[ragingbull81]

I planted some garlic in September and they sprouted tall shoots real quick and I planted more in late november and they have done nothing until a few days ago and are now 1 inch shoots.
The ones I planted in september have brown leaves on now and some green, do you think they will be ok and when will they be ready to dig up?

[Dottie]

I popped to my plot yesterday and yes my elephant garlic was showing 2" and some bigger, in more sheltered spots. As I've also planted some at the end of a bed or section, to come up as nice flowers heads.

I bought a packet of 4 elephant galic cloves 3 or 4 years ago and have never bought anymore since, as I've had a good harvest every year, even though I allow them to flower, which apparently reduces the bulb size.

However last year I planted up a packet of 50 onion bulbs in Nov, at the same time as my garlic, and not 1 onion came up. It was a pack of Taylor's Red Baron, so couldn't blame cheap stock from Poundland or Wilkinson's. So I'll be planting my onions in the spring this year and in the future, as for whatever reason, garlic copes with the winter at my plot and onions don't.

[northepaul]

I planted some last year - a bulbs worth - but never got anything from them either.

[CDave]

I couldn't resist a peek - my Elephant Garlic Cloves are plump and greenish - some with green tips - so I'm expecting "action" any day. Sweat over for now. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[Florence Fennel]

This has prompted me to go and take a look at my garlic, thanks!

[FionaH]

My elephant garlic is showing well, the regular stuff planted at the same time is nowhere to be seen

[StephenH]

I planted cloves of what Asda call 'Jumbo garlic', which may or may not be elephant garlic, but at any rate is pretty big, in late October, but nothing appeared until a few days ago, when I'd just about given up on them, but then I noticed, to my delight, lots of shoots between half an inch and two inches long. After planting them, I applied a mulch of compost, increasing the depth they were at, so, as Zazen says, that may be why mine failed to appear until now.

[Mr Potato Head]

Checked on mine today and they have just the tiniest sign of growth coming through.

[pinns]

Nope mine aren't showing at all, and a furtle reveals they all seem a bit soft and 'empty' around the tips! Perhaps they have all rotted!

I have other garlic in pots (not elephant though - stupid, stupid - considering it was three times the price) that have stong thick shoots about two inches high.

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