r/Garlic

Went out to the compost bin today only to find this little fella looking at me now im going to dry her and plant her in the fall with my other purchased one maybe i wont have to purchase any seed garlic in the years to come wish me luck

These are about 10 weeks away from harvest and quite a few are doing this thing where it looks like each individual clove has decided to send up leaves. I pulled and cut one early out of curiosity but it doesn’t look good. Anybody know whats happening and why? Will they form an actual bulb by harvest time?

Never had the stalks have that moldy color before. And the base of the cloves seems almost black. Is this rot?

Saw these at the grocery store. I abolutely love Wickles Pickles Chips, and I love to cook with garlic.

Anyone tried this? Can you use the cloves for cooking like you do with reg garlic?

It was out first year growing garlic and we kinda screwed the pooch. We're in zone 5B and I thought early July would be too early to harvest, so we stopped watering mid July with the intent to harvest in early August. Well, probably 90% of the bulbs are bursting open.

Is it worth even trying to hang the split ones at all or should I be going straight to processing for freezer/dehydrator?

We use a ton of garlic, but no way we're getting through 40 fresh heads of garlic if we cant cure them.

Approximately four months ago I planted a clove of store bought elephant garlic that had sprouted. I’ve never grown garlic before but it seems to be going well.

There are new shoots growing alongside the main stalk and the bottom leaves are drying out. It hasn’t produced any flowers, however I’m of the impression that it should have. As you can see in the photos I removed some of the soil to see what progress was taking place below. I didn’t dig too deeply as I didn’t want to damage the plant (I didn’t see a bulb).

I just wanted to get an assessment/advise on care from those who are familiar on how things are looking.

This is my 4th year growing garlic. This year I decided to hire a worker. We bought two new varities last year to grow: German Red and German Xtra Hardy (at least that's what the seller was calling it). We only bought two bulbs of each and my count for them was 59 German Xtra hardy and 36 German red. Obviously that's mathematically impossible. So, I am pretty sure they got mixed up with my Georgian Fire and Russian Giant Varieties. So, seemingly all four are mixed up together. Any suggestions on identifying the differences? My count for Georgian Fire was 158 and count for Russian Giant was around 170. So trying to pick only a few bulbs out of the Georgian fire and Russian giant will be difficult. Picture is just to gain traction on this post.

Does anyone else experience this? This spring I cut my scapes early then let the bulbs go a little too long. Sometimes an second set of shoots appear with the giant seeds.

Lil confit for me