Planting Garlic surprise! Now what?

Limner

Limner

Deceased
So my garlic was an abysmal failure last year....so I didn't even bother to dig it up. I even an stratifying some garlic to plant later this spring.

But...I was doing walk about this after noon, and lo and belold....I have clusters of baby garlic coming up from my undug bulbs. A LOT. Yeah!!!!

So...to take advantage of this bounty..... I need to gently dig them up and separate the bulbs and transplant the babies, right??? Any words of wisdom before I attempt to try NOT to kill them?
 
SouthernBreeze

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Limner said:
So my garlic was an abysmal failure last year....so I didn't even bother to dig it up. I even an stratifying some garlic to plant later this spring.

But...I was doing walk about this after noon, and lo and belold....I have clusters of baby garlic coming up from my undug bulbs. A LOT. Yeah!!!!

So...to take advantage of this bounty..... I need to gently dig them up and separate the bulbs and transplant the babies, right??? Any words of wisdom before I attempt to try NOT to kill them?
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I'm sure others might do it differently, but I just leave mine alone, without digging up the bulbs or babies. Mine multiplies like crazy all on their own, and come back year after year. If you want to transplant some to a different area you can. They are pretty hardy. I only dig bulbs as needed for use.
 
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summerthyme

Administrator
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Why not try a little of both? They'll transplant OK, and that's really the only way to get edible sized bulbs. But in case transplanting doesn't work well, leave a few clumps alone... they should be harvested when they die down in late summer and then separated and replanted.

Summerthyme
 
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Slydersan

Veteran Member
I had the same thing happen to me. I planted some garlic from a head from the store that had sat around too long and sprouted. I put it in last spring and got a couple little heads, nothing much. Most of what I put in just disappeared, no idea what happened to it. But, I was out in my yard last Thanksgiving and noticed I had about 5 little sprouting garlic plants. I'm letting them grow and see what happens. They're about 8 inches tall now.
 
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WanderLore

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I may be wrong, but I read they are like flower bulbs, in that they do something to the soil they are planted in. It takes time. So if transplanting, try to get a good bit of the soil with them they are sitting in.
 
SouthernBreeze

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I started my garlic bed with only a handful of small garlic bulbs my dad dug up and gave me. We had a fence line that Cary tilled up along. I planted those little bulbs in a row down the fence. The next year, I had garlic large enough to dig. Now, it has multiplied so much that I dig some up every year, and give it away. I have to keep it thinned out, so I will have larger bulbs. Still, I just go out, and dig up a few bulbs as I need them.
 
Sherrynboo

Sherrynboo

Veteran Member
Wow! I did not know that! I will be leaving mine in until I am ready to use it then. For the first time ever I have garlic scapes. I have never noticed them before. I don't like a lot of garlic in anything so I don't use a lot of it.
 
Satanta

Satanta

Stone Cold Crazy
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I put Garlic in mid-November. Ended up needing the AC till mid-December and the garlic spouted and grew. I did what I did finding garlic on the horse farm-trimmed the greens and used those.

I did pull some-looked like green onions, used them and repalanted more bulbs which started growing anyway.



I'm going to hold off on pulling the rest but the green parts are, well, Garlic too.
 
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