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songbird wrote:
i'm tempted to take some of the bulbules and
roast them and then try to press them out of their
peels to see if that will work.

But those are good to plant. At least one thing (ontario canada garlic
will probably find it via web search) claims that planting them
"rejuvenates" (nicely vague) the resulting bulbs/cloves for further
generations. In any case, they will, depending on size (I have quite
large ones from "Spanish Roja") either produce a new head, or a single
giant clove (aka "round" & poplar with those who hate to peel when using
large quantities of garlic) which if planted again rather than eaten
will then make a head.

The ones that start tiny may take a few years of replanting - I'll be
surprised if I don't get heads out of the 60 I'm saving for the garden
next year (ie, to plant as soon as I have space cleared this year),
since they are nearly the size of some of the cloves from the largest
heads (some of the smaller bulbils have gone into the woods, after I
noticed a garlic happily growing where I would never have thought to
plant one - in the shady woods just off the deck, near where I clean the
stuff.) I gave 197 medium ones to someone else to get a start on this
variety of garlic.

My mutt garlic sometimes has no top bulbs, or gets pregnant in the stem
(not like a scape), where the Spanish Roja (new to me this year) has a
more classic scape arrangement. After doing a bit of research this
spring I let them all go, since one of the few people who had actually
done a side-by-side test got more garlic from the ones they left the
scapes on, and other than people blindly repeating (without evidence)
the "common knowledge" that cutting the scapes off "forced more energy
into the bulb" most other things said it was a wash either way - i.e.,
did not matter. So, I'm only going to cut them off if I'm eating them,
unless I feel all scientific one year and do my own randomized test.

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