Hi, question, please: does anybody know if and how I can plant garlic seeds from the flower and be successful to get garlic plants? or can I plant only the bulbs? A friend gave me the top flower from her garlic plant, and I thought I might be able to plant those...?
What do you all think?
Thanks.
Luisa
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Name: Tom Cagle SE-OH (Zone 6a) Old, fat, and gardening in OH
The bulbils out of the tops of hardneck garlic if planted promptly, will make a single fat clove. Those would have to be grown for a second year to make compound garlics like you buy in store.
If your garlic is prone to rusts and crud on very wet years, growing out from seed (bulbil) is a way to break up that decay. Every third or fourth year also grow out some seed.
We live in a hot, rather humid area and I might just get brave and try this!
My friend Cathy, who gave me the flower, can grow anything, and we live not too far apart, soooo, hopefully ...!
Thanks, Tom
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