T wrote:
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I accidentally chopped on while weeding. It was very
good eating!

Questions:

how mad does the plant get at you when your
do that?

can survive, but obviously there's some effect
on bulb size.


Does the bulb shrink trying to rebuild the top?

no bulb forms until later. right now it's
all leaves and stalk when i dig them up.


And, how many times can you get away with it?

each one is a cost.

i usually am digging up the whole plant (roots
and all) because i'm trying to remove them. the
roots are very well liked by worms after they've
dried out. if you leave some of the bottom attached
to the roots then there might be enough energy to
restart a plant, but i would not count on it getting
big until the following year.

in the end, if you want a lot of garlic, use the
cloves and bulbules and you can have thousands of
plants within a few years.


songbird