🧄 PRESALE – Vietnamese Purple & Elephant Garlic | Ships September 2026 | Grow Your Own Gourmet Garlic

🧄 PRESALE – Vietnamese Purple Garlic & Elephant Garlic | Ships September 2026 | Grow Your Own Gourmet Garlic Allium sativum / Allium ampeloprasum ⚠️ THIS IS A PRE-SALE — ORDERS SHIP IN EARLY SEPTEMBER 2026 ⚠️ This is a pre-order to reserve your seed garlic. Orders ship in September. This pre-sale runs through July 10, 2026. All orders are collected during this window and shipped together in September, timed perfectly for fall planting. Orders are placed on HOLD until closer to September, when my team and I start prepping the packages. If you also order additional items like other seeds and plants - it will ship together with your seed garlic. We first print the shipping labels which generates a tracking number. The tracking will say "package not received" until we ship and hand it over to USPS or UPS. Then the tracking will show updates. Because seed garlic is reserved in exact quantities for each order, orders cannot be canceled, returned, or refunded. Please read the full listing before ordering. Questions? Email info@jerrasgarden.com ⚠️ IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING ⚠️ 🧄 How the Pre-Sale Works Place your order June 10 – July 10 to reserve your seed garlic. Closer to September, my team and I start printing all the labels which generates a tracking number, which will show no movement until September. The orders ship in September and the tracking number will show updates. Your seed garlic arrives in September — right on time to plant or begin vernalization if needed. 🧄 When Should You Plant Your Garlic - Timeline by Climate ❄️ Cold Climate Gardeners (areas with snow and freezes during the winter) Plant your seed garlic 4–6 weeks before your first winter frost date. No vernalization needed. Watch my full planting guide on YouTube HERE. ☀️ Hot Climate Gardeners (mild winters, no snow areas) You must vernalize your garlic to grow full, well-developed bulbs. Refrigerate your seed garlic as soon as it arrives and keep it refrigerated all the way until planting day. Plant in November or December. Watch my full planting guide on YouTube HERE. 🧄 Choose Your Variety Use the drop-down menu to select your variety or bundle. Vietnamese Purple (Deerfield Purple): A rare and stunning hardneck variety with impressively large, flavorful bulbs and beautiful purple-streaked wrappers. Rich, bold, and complex flavor that garlic lovers will appreciate. While conventional wisdom says hardneck garlic doesn't perform well in warm southern climates, I grow Vietnamese Purple right here in Florida and get big, gorgeous bulbs every season. If you've been told you can't grow hardneck in the South — this variety is proof that you can. Elephant Garlic: Technically more closely related to leeks than true garlic, Elephant Garlic produces oversized bulbs with a mild, slightly sweet flavor. Perfect for roasting whole, slicing fresh, or anywhere you want garlic presence without the intensity. A crowd favorite and an absolute showstopper in the garden. If you've struggled with hardneck or softneck varieties, Elephant Garlic is an easier, more forgiving option. 🧄 How Much Should You Order? Option Vietnamese Purple Elephant Garlic ½ lb ~15–20 cloves ~4–6 cloves 1 lb ~30–40 cloves ~8–12 cloves Garlic Sampler Bundle (½ lb of each) — 10% off! Great for trying both varieties side by side. Garlic Grower's Bundle (1 lb of each) — 10% off! Best value for the serious home gardener who wants a bigger harvest. 📏 Spacing note: Cloves are planted 6 inches apart. A 1 lb bag of Vietnamese Purple (~30–40 cloves) plants a bed about 15–20 feet long. Elephant Garlic cloves are much larger, so a pound plants a shorter but equally impressive bed. 🧄 What You'll Receive Premium seed garlic shipped as whole bulbs, ready to break into individual cloves at planting time. Shipped without soil, with healthy, viable, certified disease-free cloves. 🧄 How to Plant Please watch my YouTube video guide on step-by-step directions on what to do when your seed garlic arrives, how to vernalize if needed, how to seperate the cloves before planting. how to do a pathogen pre-soak and a butrient pre-soak to give your garlic the best chance at growing large bulbs, how to prepare the planting area, and much more. Watch here: coming soon ⏳ Harvest Garlic is typically ready in late spring to early summer, when the lower leaves begin to brown — usually when about half the leaves have dried out. Cure bulbs in a warm, dry, well-ventilated spot for 3–4 weeks before storing. Properly cured garlic stores for several months. Save your largest, healthiest bulbs to replant next season! 🚚 Shipping Orders ship in early September via USPS or UPS — whichever gets your seed garlic to you fastest. Watch my YouTube planting & vernalization guide: Coming soon Watch my YouTube harvest guide: Coming soon