Hello everyone what's going on out there hope you're doing well and I hope your

gardens are doing well as well today we're talking about elephant garlic now I

found this cool story that I'd like to read for you from Nichols Garden Nursery,

herbs and fine seeds for the gardener cook.

Now this is an elephant garlic story so let me just pop right into the story here and I will leave the link to where I found this story in the podcast description.

It was in 1941 when we first saw this large type of garlic growing in a backyard near Sio, Oregon.

This area is in the heart of the famed Willemette Valley and originally settled by the people of bohemian origin.

Remember, back in 1941, it was not considered good manners to have garlic on one's breath,

and its use was limited mostly to immigrants from the quote-unquote

old country. We did however, despite the prejudice that existed at the time against garlic, see that this

garlic had an immense future. So we began to buy all of this large

type garlic we could find. We finally were able to get 12 pounds of cloves and no more.

It was from the planting of this small amount of large type garlic

that we first established our elephant garlic business

in the fall of 1941. Since then we have sold our large

garlic in every state of the country, Australia, South Africa, and several

European and South American countries.

How they got our name, we do not know.

But we had three inquiries from Russia over the course of a few years.

The origin of elephant garlic has had many conflicting stories.

Let us set the record straight as to the name elephant garlic.

The name originated here at Nichols Garden Nursery in 1953. Prior to this it was called

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