elephant garlic is Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum a tasteless garlic Garlic is Allium sativum an other species Roland 2013/4/9 David Ehrlich <idavide@sbcglobal.net> > Smuel -- > I have never seen leek left in the ground, but I am told it becomes like > garlic. I have also been told that elephant garlic is really just a > variety of > leek. However, I do know that leek has a solid scape, and > when you shop for it summer or later, you must be careful to make sure > that the > scape has not yet started. If it has, you will end up having to discard > nearly > half the plant. The scape is inedibly hard. > > David E. > > ________________________________ > From: Shmuel Silinsky gardenbetter@gmail.com > I wonder what happens if leek is not > harvested and let to form a bulb? Another is what they call elephant > garlic - the catalog of Nichol's Nursery in Oregon says they introduced it > as a crop and gave it the elephant garlic name. I have not seen it wild > here, but would sure like to. : ) > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/pages/Bulborum/…