Question about garlic

I grow garlic all the time and it takes two years to grow .Usually when the bulb of seeds blow apart thats when i dig them up . You will never run out after the first batch , they multiply very fast .

-- John in Cranbrook , http://www.extremebirdhouse.com http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

You could dig some of it up today to use as green garlic. Wash it, remove the roots and any brown parts on the green, and then slice the whole thing up like a green onion. It will have a milder flavor than the garlic bulb you’re used to, but it’s still good as green garlic.

Of course, if you actually want to get a bulb from it, you don’t want to dig it up now. Can’t have your garlic and eat it too.

-- -Jerrica --Kansas City, MO --zone 5

Just cut off the scapes (green) don’t dig the whole thing up until fall or you may be wasting good garlic bulbs. I simply grow my garlic from fall to fall..Plant in fall, harvest the next fall, seperate some good cloves from your harvest and re-plant.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

Cool, this is good timing; I just planted our first cloves. Looking forward to a never ending supply!

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

how do they multiply and why is that some take two years and others one year?

thank you for the replies

-- Central northish Ontario

I have grown hardneck and soft varieties of garlic and 1 year gives a decent standard size bulb, I have never heard of 2 years so someone else could answer that better. You plant a clove and it grows a bulb much like any bulb you plant. Here is some interesting information on growing garlic.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

Merci

-- Central northish Ontario

Xplore great link to a good read
I love the timeliness on this site!
So nice not to be reading about mulching leaves or shoveling snow in May lol

-- Flowers aren't manly? Then why do so many women like them.....

What I want to know is why it repels vampires so well.

[come on…you know it had to go there eventually…]

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)

I’m not sure about vampires but it is a fact that garlic repels other blood-sucking creatures. Eat garlic or feed it to your pets and you and your pets will be much less likely to be bitten by flies…It also repels fleas and ticks from animals. Fleas don’t like hosts with garlic in their systems…But here is a theory on vampires:

Garlic & Vampires

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20