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Originally Posted by Dewey Cox
Are the bulbils the part that grows on the shoots?
Are you planting them and they take two years to make a garlic plant?
I think I have garlic envy...
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LOL!
The Bulbils form on the scapes. Let them ripen, and they form a bud as shown above with a multitude of miniature garlic clones inside of therm (the purple parts showing above). Harvest them when the bud opens and the Bulbils are about to fall off.
Plant them in the spring for a fall harvest.
Then re-plant them around October to produce the next season's crop.
All of those pictured above were produced by that method.
Means we get to eat all of the year's production rather than using some of it for seed purposes.
Works very well.
Cheers,
Nog