You can plant them, although I doubt any giant Elephant bulb would come out of then for a few years, but ive never tried them.

JamesM, when my kids want to help me with any gardening chore, I dont care what they wear,lol...and I sometimes wear a sundress while weeding, wanna see a pic???

Maybe if you post a pic of them weeding I can get mine to give it a better shot. They are good about planting, spreading grass clippings and mulch, training the vines up the trellises and mostly picking, but not so much with weeding. Maybe if you post a pick I can say "see, other kids think it's fun".

Bumping for pics! Thank ya!

....just'a bumpin'.....

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Hope I got all that right!

....u're doin' fine, thanx....

That was some of my Metachi.

MHG's E garlic:

....them Elephants ain't nuthin' for me to brag about.....

Nice pics! I think it's unanimous. We all got 3" big E. bulbs. Did anybody do any better than that? Mother nature is telling us something We all need to measure them, just so we know for the contest. I am not entering mine, just a softneck this year. So, any of you with big E.,hardnecks, softnecks and Rocco, you need to post the size, so I can put the numbers in the entries. Has everybody taken measurements and posted them? I haven't recorded any of them so far.

Hi Dave!

Now I know ya have my 2.8 measure of the Rocco!

Whatcha doing? I have been asking everyone that today! Too Dang hot here to do much more than sit and read!

I was selling elepant garlic bulbs yesterday at the farmers market that were 3" I guess I need to go thru my racks of E garlic and measure some of the big ones. none of my E garlic was small this year.

Had an elephant that measured 3 5/8" and a Music that measured a paltry 2 1/4".


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So far I have found 2 E garlics that measure 4" diameter I have only been through 2 out of our 9 racks of e garlic may find somthing bigger.

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Originally posted by oh2fly:
Has everybody taken measurements and posted them? I haven't recorded any of them so far.

Hey Dave,
I just harvested my Ukrainian Red today. Harvested the German White last week. And I'll probably harvest the Music this coming weekend - though I'm not expecting any of the Music to be anywhere near as large as the other two.

I've still got to measure some more and take pics, but I don't think I'll beat Lisaann's 2.8. This year's crop wasn't nearly as robust as last year's. About half of my German White heads appear to be around 2.5 - 2.6. And I found one 2.75 Ukrainian Red a few minutes ago.

Last year's crop had much larger heads.

But I still have more in DW's herb garden that I haven't harvested. They're probably about a week or two from harvest now.

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Has everybody taken measurements and posted them? I haven't recorded any of them so far.

Dave, I posted mine on the Garlic Contest thread, not that I think I'm winning or anything . There are others posted on that thread, also.