Do you have a flower bed? They will look good there.

Yep got a place all ready for it, most of my questions got answered in the other forum so I'm cool. thanks!

I guess I'm just curious, and maybe I don't know the whole story... but why didn't you just plant the garlic in the ground? Hardnecks should over-winter just fine in N.Y. You probably would have avoided the mold problem by planting the cloves when they had more vigor.

Well, I kinda learned after the fact that you plant them late in the fall. I figured a plant is a plant and hadn't counted on there being things such as cold weather crops.

Now I'm just salvaging whatever I can. Better luck next year eh?

I've tried your exact setup and no matter what, they seem to rot eventually, maybe because of the lack of enough vernalization, light, growing space, or other conditions that are present in an outdoor environment.

thanks for the heads up Steve.
I have even greater pressure to get these outside now ha!

So you started them indoors? Next time grow them outside, they do need a cold period to do well.

The bottom picture looks like mold. I would not plant that anywhere in the garden, for fear of it spreading. For a fun experiment, I would carefully rinse it and see if it got in the bulb and root. If not, I would spray it with a hydrogen peroxide water mix and plant it in clean soil in a large container with plenty of drainage and mulch it with straw planted outside. Late March I would remove the mulch and see what happens.

You might be able to harvest the greens from it if it doesn't produce a bulb. The neat part of making 'mistakes' in the garden is that what you learn will forever be imprinted on your brain to learn and change your approach the next time. Makes one a much better gardener.

Yeah, I tried the peroxide suggestion and it just wound up killing the garlics, like I mean picking them up by the leaves just slid out of the bulb.

I don't know if planting a small amount of mold is such a risk though since I also read elsewhere that other people who tried this had the mold disappear and the plant took off quickly.

Lucky for me lately the overnights in NY have been mild so far, tonight is about 47 degrees outside and the garlics seem to have adjusted so far after about 3 days. I didn't put them all out yet but once a week I add another 6.

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