Growing things

[ksmith]

I have a garlic head that it starting to sprout green shoots from several cloves.

1) Are these plantable? Can I stick these in the ground?

2) Do I need to separate the cloves and plant them individually? I assume yes, but just checking.

Comments

[msss.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes.

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

With the qualification that garlic is a bulb, and like most bulbs, it does best when planted in fall.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

So can I salvage the head that I have by separating the cloves and letting them dry out?

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

I'd just eat them myself. The green part is perfectly edible, just once it starts trying to sprout the clove may be a bit soft.

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Spring-ish planting works also. You will have something by fall but more actually next year.

[nlbarber]

I've read that the sprouted part is bitter, but I don't seem to have the taste buds to tell.

On the other hand, I just planted 4 or 5 sprouted cloves in my garden--we'll see if I end up with usable heads of garlic. This is decidedly not fall in Atlanta. At the moment I have tall green garlic shoots. Of course, I could just snip those off and stir-fry them....

[chrisdolley.livejournal.com]

It's a bit late in the year but they'll still grow. Separate out the cloves and plant them 4 to 6 inches apart.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

It should be plantable but we've had very little luck with them - otoh we're in a different climate. I have heard that the green shoots will cause stomach problems, but not sure whether this is urban myth or not.