Last fall I was talked into growing some garlic for sale. I chose Elephant Garlic which is really a leek, not a true garlic. I bought 20 pounds of seed stock, planted the cloves in raised rows, mulched with straw and waited for winter. In the spring, I carefully raked off the straw when I saw sprouts coming up. By July it looked like this. The first 2 rows are Elephant Garlic, the next is a regular garlic, with onions beyond them.
One third of the crop ready to be tied into bundles of 5 and hung in the garden shed to dry for a month.
Regular garlic on the left, elephant garlic on the right. It's important to keep the sun off the garlic while it dries. A small fan kept the air moving, and the door was opened in the daytime to keep the garlic from cooking.
A 13 oz clump of elephant garlic. Many were this big.
I saved 25# to plant for my crop next year, and sold about half the crop of elephant garlic and made enough money to pay myself back for the original seed stock, with enough left over to buy some new varieties.
