Did not harvest garlic in time. Can I split and replant for next year?

[Gardener77]

Well, I just had realized I failed to get to a good portion of the garlic.
It's growing chives out of all the cloves... And has that translucent look to many of them.
Can I plant the cloves right off for next year?
Do I have to do anything, like drying them out first?

I hope they are not a total waste
There is quite a bit there....

Thanks for any help!

 

[lesa]

If the separate cloves are firm- you can go ahead and plant them...If they are on their way to rot, they won't grow. Good luck!

 

[April Manier]

Yes...
If there is black fungus in there than don't plant those ones. We harvested a weeeeee bit late this year and had some that got fungus.

Garlic is pretty easy. If there is some juiciness left in 'em, go for it!

 

[hoodat]

Another option, if you don't need the space, is to leave them in as a permanent garlic bed. More and more people are experimenting with doing it that way. They just havest them one at a time as needed rather than harvest them all at once.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i assume you would still cut the scape off them?

i was wondering if anyone has ever planted the bulbis (seeds) and do you just leave them for the 2-3 years it could take them to grow into the bulbs? or would you pull them up each year to let them dry before replanting them in the fall?

 

[texas75563]

I have garlic in 5 or 6 different places. They have probably been there 5 years. I just pull the garlic when I need it. Mainly when I make my dill pickles.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

Another option, if you don't need the space, is to leave them in as a permanent garlic bed. More and more people are experimenting with doing it that way. They just havest them one at a time as needed rather than harvest them all at once.

I have an organic gardening book that has an article about a permanant garlic bed that is over 20 years old.

 

[ducks4you]

How do you keep a garlic bed going?

 

[texas75563]

I made 14 day sun dill pickles last year, with a clove of garlic in each jar. For the heck of it, I planted 1 of the cloves of garlic when I finished the jar of pickles. What did I have to lose? I noticed today it is about 3 inches tall.