The Garlic Farm
Discussion
Anyone else enjoying the wonders from this business on the Isle of Wight?
https://thegarlicfarm.co.uk/index.aspx
We visited earlier this year, had lunch and then bought a few bags of goodies. Sadly the elephant garlic was being harvested 3 days after our visit! Since then we've discovered their stuff for sale in a farm shop in Axminster and at the Royal Berkshire show.
Favourites are the Coronation Sauce and Toasted Garlic Mayonnaise (along with roasted elephant garlic!).
https://thegarlicfarm.co.uk/index.aspx
We visited earlier this year, had lunch and then bought a few bags of goodies. Sadly the elephant garlic was being harvested 3 days after our visit! Since then we've discovered their stuff for sale in a farm shop in Axminster and at the Royal Berkshire show.
Favourites are the Coronation Sauce and Toasted Garlic Mayonnaise (along with roasted elephant garlic!).
..I bought an Elephant garlic from them at a show last year. Went home and roasted it and then ate THE WHOLE THING with bread.
Biggest mistake ever! The next day i felt awful, stunk of garlic everywhere, every time i went to the toilet it was a garlic fest, couldn't concentrate at work and felt like death. The constant smell of garlic made me throw up as i just couldn't escape it!! Never again!
The actual elephant garlic was amazing at the time though!
Biggest mistake ever! The next day i felt awful, stunk of garlic everywhere, every time i went to the toilet it was a garlic fest, couldn't concentrate at work and felt like death. The constant smell of garlic made me throw up as i just couldn't escape it!! Never again!
The actual elephant garlic was amazing at the time though!
volks al said:
Anyone growing their own? Seems a cheaper way to do it. Might give me a reason to dig up some grass out the back!
I got a soft neck garlic starter pack from them last year, for my first attempt at growing garlic. You HAVE to do it, as the taste is un-fekking-believable! Although it wasn't a bumper crop due to the wet weather (meaning we had to pull it up early) we started harvesting in May and still have supplies now.Another soft neck pack and an elephant garlic pack for me, sir!
Fane said:
volks al said:
Anyone growing their own? Seems a cheaper way to do it. Might give me a reason to dig up some grass out the back!
I got a soft neck garlic starter pack from them last year, for my first attempt at growing garlic. You HAVE to do it, as the taste is un-fekking-believable! Although it wasn't a bumper crop due to the wet weather (meaning we had to pull it up early) we started harvesting in May and still have supplies now.Another soft neck pack and an elephant garlic pack for me, sir!
volks al said:
Thats all the confirmation I needed! Couldn't quite work out how much you get from one pack, as does one clove just make one new blub etc but it seems fun.
From memory, I got about 5 bulbs x 4 varieties. You break each one down into the constituent cloves and plant them. The instructions were a bit random in places, but give you enough detail on what to do. Each clove, in theory, creates a new bulb, but plan to lose some. They need to be in the ground ideally by sometime in November. I spy a garlic growing thread incoming 
The Missus was a bit anti it at first, mainly due to the cost of buying the bulbs in the first place, but she was a convert as soon as she tasted the results.
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