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Let's plant our elephant garlic. Welcome
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to Gardening with Ben. And in today's
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video, we're going to be planting our
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elephant garlic. We're now in October
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and now is the perfect time to be
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planting your garlic. However, elephant
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garlic is not actually part of the
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garlic family. It's part of the leak
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family. So, yeah, it's weird that it's
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called garlic, but it's not actually
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part of the garlic family. Now, these
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can grow to an absolutely huge size.
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Now, these aren't a full bulb, these
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elephant garlic. These are like half,
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but they're absolutely massive, and
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hopefully we get quite a few cloves off
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these to plant. Now, we're going to be
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spacing these out quite well. Uh it says
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plant 30 cm apart. So, yes, they do need
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a lot of space and you need to plant
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them to a depth of 15 cm. So, quite deep
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as well. So, yeah, we're going to be
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getting these in the ground. We've dug
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it over. We've cleared it. We're going
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to be planting it in the same bed as our
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garlic. We're going to be feeding them
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throughout the winter period and into
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the springtime because when they get the
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leaves, that's what they need to help
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them swell up in the springtime. And
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then we'll feed them with tomato feed
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come springtime to help fatten them up.
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So during the winter time, we'll feed
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them with onion and garlic feed, which
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you can get from most garden centers and
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online, which yeah, it'll help speed it
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up and hopefully get some great produce.
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So, we need to split all these up into
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individual cloves and get these planted
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in the ground. So, yeah, let's do that.
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So, I've observed these. These
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are not individual clothes. As you can
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see, they're just one round. They've not
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split into individual clothes. So, what
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we need to do is just plant these
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separately in the garden. And these will
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then form the bulb and split up into
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cloves. So yeah, we've got to plant
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these individually in the garden. So I
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I'm expecting to plant these
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individually in separate clothes, but
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no, I don't need as much space for
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these. So we need to plant these at a 15
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So we shove them right into the ground.
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So we're going to cover them over to let
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them grow. Make sure there's no weeds
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around cuz they don't like fighting with
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So yeah, that is that job done. I need
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to get all these out, but that's a job
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for another day. So yeah, hopefully
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they'll grow. The last thing to do is
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I'm going to feed them, put some food on
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them, and hopefully we're going to net
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them as well to stop the birds from
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pulling out the shoots once they start
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growing along with the normal garlic as
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well. So yeah, let's get them fed and
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So I've got the elephant garlic in the
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ground. We've got it netted over. We've
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put some feed over the top, the onion
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and garlic feed, so that it'll help with
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the nitrogen in the soil. But once they
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take established and they get growing,
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then we'll take the netting off during
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the winter months when it's snowing so
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that we can keep the netting and
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hopefully use it again on something else
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next year. So yeah, fingers crossed we
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get some great elephant garlic and see
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how big it actually grows. So make sure
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you drop us a follow and stay up to date
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and see how well it grows throughout the
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year and how well we harvest it next
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year. See if we get some huge elephant
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garlic bulbs. So until next time
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everyone, remember, keep smiling, keep
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shining, and keep gardening. from the
