flowerbug
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garlic starts/scapes. even if the planting season is completely wrong people always were willing to take some.
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garlic starts/scapes. even if the planting season is completely wrong people always were willing to take some.
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I guess I could do bulbils, those would be do-able in early February. They'd basically be like seeds in packets; I actually ordered a few rare varieties of garlic bulbils this winter. I'm quite excited to try them, been a long while since I grew garlic. These of course will take a few years, but I'm willing to wait with the specialty varieties. I chose types that are said to store well.
flowerbug
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if you don't trim off the scapes the first season you plant them you should get some tiny ones to harvest and use or give away. i've had them the size of grains of rice and they'll still grow.
one year (some time ago now haha) i had a garden of alfalfa and a large variety of birdsfoot trefoil that i planted and weeded and i wanted some garlic in it so i scattered many thousand bulbules in it. big mistake in terms of how difficult it was to harvest or weed but i did pull many small bulbs of garlic out of that patch over the years.
one year in an effort to get the garlic cleared out of that patch was when i dug up two buckets of bulbs (many the size of my thumb or less) but before i dug up any of them i also cut off all the scapes and that was another half a bucket.
i must have had a huge amount of spare time that year because i peeled all of those small bulbs and some of the larger scapes and made garlic relish out of it all - a few cases of 18oz jars. the house smelled pretty good.
