Culinary Elephant Garlic
Cured elephant garlic bulbs that dwarf anything you will find in the shops. Lifted in July, dried slowly, then sent to your door. The next harvest is July 2027 — the waitlist is open.
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The next culinary harvest comes out of the ground in July 2027, and pricing will be announced nearer the drop. Leave your email and you'll be first to hear when pre-orders open.
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- Weight
- Typically 300 – 500g
- Dispatch
- July 2027
- Flavour
- Mild & sweet
- Best for
- Roasting whole
Buy elephant garlic bulbs — grown in the UK
Almost everyone selling elephant garlic in the UK sells it for planting. This page is for the other thing: eating it. Elephant garlic (Allium ampeloprasum) is a giant cousin of the leek with a flavour that's completely unlike the sharp bite of regular garlic — which is why chefs roast the cloves whole and let them carry the plate. Each bulb is grown in one Lincolnshire field, lifted in July, and rested in the barn until it arrives dense, papery and ready for the kitchen.
What do you do with a clove the size of your thumb?
Roast the bulb whole and squeeze it onto sourdough. Confit the cloves in oil until they collapse into something you can spoon. Mash it into butter for steak. One bulb genuinely covers a Sunday roast for the whole table — and because it's so mild, there's no such thing as too much. If you'd rather grow your own, the autumn seed drop is here →
Good questions, answered
What does elephant garlic taste like?
Mild and sweet — closer to a roasted leek than regular garlic, with none of the harshness. Roast a whole clove and it turns soft enough to spread straight onto bread.
How big is one bulb?
Typically 300–500g and up to 10cm across — you'll still struggle to close a hand around one, and the real monsters can hit 900g. One clove is bigger than an entire bulb of supermarket garlic, and one clove does a whole roast dinner.
How long does it keep?
Cured properly (no bulb leaves the barn in a hurry), a whole bulb keeps 2–3 months somewhere cool, dry and dark. Don't put it in the fridge — it'll think it's winter and try to sprout.
Can I plant a culinary bulb instead of eating it?
You can — it's the same plant. But the seed cloves are graded for exactly that job — the big ones off the best bulbs — so if you're growing, buy those.
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