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Garlic Bulbs - Description
- Giant Garlic Bulbs
- Variety: Elephant
- Quantity: 3 Cloves Per Pack
- Type: Hard Neck Garlic Bulbs
- Produces Large Cloves - Hence Name of 'Elephant'
- Bulb Size: Can Grow to Size of Your Hand
- Large Size Means Spacing Garlic Elephant Further Apart (At Least 12" Apart)
- Yield: 1 clove Produces 5 to 7 Cloves on Average
- Part of Onion or Allium Family
- Flavour: Sweet & Mild Taste
Garlic Bulbs - Sowing Instructions
- Sowing Time: September to February
- Best sown before the frost
- Spacing: 30cm apart
- Sowing depth = 3 times the height of the bulb
- Soil: Prefers well drained soil
- Not suited to heavy or wet soils
- You can use raised beds or place vermiculite or sand at base of planting hole
- Harvest once leaves have faded and turned brown
Garlic Bulbs - Uses
- Essential in most meals
- Great in sauces, soups, stews & curries
Garlic Bulbs - Advantages
- Elephant variety produces very large bulbs
- Up to 3 times larger than standard garlic
- Tested & cleaned bulbs
- Free of disease
- Reliable cropper
- Can help to repel pests in & around the vegetable plot including
- Carrot fly, aphids & more
- Low cost
- Faster & more reliable than growing from seed
