Tyler Ludens wrote:Perennial Leek aka Elephant Garlic grows easily from seed and is a super tough plant, surviving here with no irrigation. It will propagate by self seeding and division.
This is good to know because I saved seed from my elephant garlic last year on the off chance. There was no reference to saving elephant garlic seed in any of my seed saving
books.
I planted the original elephant garlic cloves in August of Year 1 and over-wintered them in our damp, cold temperate climate under a
mulch of autumn leaves (despite the books saying they were too tender to do so). They produced a fabulous set of seed heads by July/August in Year 2. I had to stake them as they were about 3 to 4 ft tall. When the individual seeds stopped being milky and turned black, I cut the heads off with a good length of stem and stood them in an old glass bottle to dry in a warm room for a couple of months before removing the seeds from the seed heads. The drying seed heads are beautifully ornamental too.