Jacob Englund

Joshua States wrote:@Legion Air, for the record these are hardneck garlic that I planted in September as single cloves. They will probably be ready to harvest late summer.

It was one bulb i broke apart. I was curious to see if it was growing properly for being planted 2 seasons ago and left. I will post updates itt as the season goes by. Wdym about cutting center though.

Nancy Reading wrote:

I have once. I planted a 30 ft row of store bought garlic(softneck) in the fall of 2022 just to see what would happen. It didnt do well at all. I dug up maybe 5 ft worth it in different spots and decided it was not worth digging up so i left it to rot. I was taking advantage of the nice weather mid February in the upper midwest and noticed the store bought garlic i had left to rot was growing again. This time instead of there being 2-4 clover per 1 i originally planted there were at 8+ cloves. Im assumning they eventually grow together to form a head but im contemplating digging them up and replanting each bulb individually.

Hi and welcome to Permies!
So how long did you leave them the first time? till early summer? Were they just tiny with little cloves? Maybe the spot wasn't optimum for them, or maybe they have somehow acclimatised. I find that garlic doesn't really like my climate and would just disappear if I try and plant it out - in the polytunnel however, it is practically perennial!

Apologies for the delayed response. I only planted them once in the fall of 2022 and thought they had died. We ate the few harvested july of 2023. I harvested one today I'm going to experiment with. Should be a decent crop this season considering this was one on the smaller side.

I have once. I planted a 30 ft row of store bought garlic(softneck) in the fall of 2022 just to see what would happen. It didnt do well at all. I dug up maybe 5 ft worth it in different spots and decided it was not worth digging up so i left it to rot. I was taking advantage of the nice weather mid February in the upper midwest and noticed the store bought garlic i had left to rot was growing again. This time instead of there being 2-4 clover per 1 i originally planted there were at 8+ cloves. Im assumning they eventually grow together to form a head but im contemplating digging them up and replanting each bulb individually.