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Doug Kanter wrote:
My garlic plants are doing what ornamental alliums usually do: Producing
tons of seeds. I don't see much on the web about using these seeds. One
site even says the plants rarely make seed. Has anyone tried this? I'm
open to experimentation, but I'm wondering what the time frame is like
from sowing to maturity, compared with the usual method of planting
cloves.

To write you my recent experience of same case. We used last autumn those
seed, and few days ago we pull it out. Also during spring we use it as
young (for salad). Time of sowing the same as garlic which is planted from
cloves. It was smaller than regular ones (from cloves), but now is also
little smaller than regular. But all of them from seed are almost
identical size - interesting. Also when we took it out it looks healthier
than regular ( in a last 2 months we had a LOT of rain). But we will see
how it will hold on during winter - in a storage. I didn't mention that it
also made cloves. This autumn we will plant again some rows from cloves
some from seed from regular garlic, and some seed from garlic which came
from seed, also we will plant cloves from garlic from seed. So little
experimenting makes it more interesting.
Once long time ago (I was a kid) we planted it from seed but it didn't
make cloves, just only one bulb- little smaller than normal garlic bulb,
maybe that was garlic for spring planting. I didn't try it ever again, now
as you drove this question, I'll try this too in spring.

Here is classic continental climate (hot summers, cold winters, rainy
springs)-but it's not strictly as it was, i believe this is result of
global warming.

Where is "here"?