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10 years ago


What variety are these and what are these separate bulbs that had no stalks? Thank you in advance for your help.

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  • 10 years ago

    can't hep with the variety but the bulbs in the bowl are rounds - undivided bulbs that may have grown from bulbils or a small bulb as in the top photo that didn't get harvested the previous season.


    kyle9317 thanked zqnmegan
  • 10 years ago

    I believe what you have there may be Elephant garlic and those are corms in the bowl that grow round the bulbs. Hard to tell for sure though.

    kyle9317 thanked LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
  • 10 years ago

    Kyle, maybe when the dirt has dried off sufficiently to be able to rub it off, take another photo of the rounds/corms in the bowl. if they have a concave side and very tough yellowish skin, most likely elephant garlic corms as lonejack suggests. if teardrop shaped, will be a garlic. did you plant them in your garden to start with, if so did you keep a record of the varieties that you planted?

    kyle9317 thanked zqnmegan
  • 10 years ago

    Thank you all for your input. Zqnmegan i received a hand full of dried bulbs from a friend of my father and was told it was "wild garlic". this would be the second year they have been in the ground but this is the first year im trying to do a full harvest and drying on my own, They did produce scapes if that helps with figuring out the variety. I did cut them off before they bloomed as that is what alot of articles said would help produce larger bulbs.

  • 10 years ago

    If the little ones were connected to one of the bigger bulbs but actually outside them, then probably elephant garlic. BUT it seems to me that for the size there are too many cloves in the actual bulbs to be elephant garlic. The rounds may well have been last years bulbs unharvested that had each clove send up a shoot this spring but were too closely packed to send up a scape; so they reverted to rounds. I suggest you plant them back at about a 6" spacing this fall and see what you get. BTW Elephant garlic well grown will have a much wider, heavier leaf than true garlics. It is a much more robust plant all around.


    Both true garlics and elephant garlics go feral easily in many parts of the country. "Wild garlic" might be either one. BTW what did the dried up bulbs you originally got look like? Redomesticating a feral can be a lot of fun; I have one I am working on myself.