T wrote:
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I my feral trough, I planted five olive sized
garlic bulbs just to see how they will go feral.
are they a hardneck garlic?
did the bulbs have individual cloves in them
or were they a single clove?
the first year for many scape bulbules will mean
they grow larger but don't subdivide, the second
year they often will divide and from then on you
have a clump which will cycle through. so some of
the cloves will increase while others will either
be dormant or stay about the same size. that is
why it is hard to remove once it goes off to the
wild. you think you've pulled it all but there
are some cloves down there hiding. so you have to
dig it up and sift the soil pretty well to find
them all and even then you might miss a tiny one
and it will then be back the next time the weather
turns cool/wet again. these plants have cunning
plans for world domination.
i gave my sister some bulbules years ago and they
put them on her land in southern CO (which is
probably similar to what you have there for climate)
and so far they are surviving, but not doing much
else. i don't know how they are doing the past few
years now that a gardener is staying there more of
the time, perhaps they finally got fertilized and
watered more or ... will have to ask.
I will be interesting!
always! life is tenacious.
songbird