Roasted Elephant Garlic Is Larger And Milder Than Regular Garlic. It’S A Delicious Accompaniment To A Fresh Loaf Of Bread And Is Easy To Tuck In The Oven When Roasting Other Meats And Vegetables. If Your Oven Temp Needs To Be Higher Or Lower For Whatever Else You’Re Roasting, Simply Extend Or Reduce The Cooking Time Of The Garlic Elephant Garlic Prefers A Long, Cool Growing Season And Is Best Planted In Early Fall. The Larger The Planted Clove, The Larger The Bulb It Will Produce, And These Cloves Are Huge. Garlic Grows Best When The Competition With Weeds Is Reduced, Youll Want To Keep Weeds At A Minimum With Frequent Sallow Cultivation. When Planting The Cloves, You Want To Plant With The Blunt End Of The Clove Into The Soil First, The Tip Of The Clove Should Be Slightly Exposed To The Soil. Elephant Garlic Is Considered A Biennial, Which Means It Completes Its Life Cycle In Two Growing Seasons (Fall-Planted, Spring/Summer – Harvest).