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Sat, Dec 24, 11 at 20:06
| I have a garlic that was found at an old home stead in N.C. Mountain. It has grown in Ga. for 20 years now.
It looks like garlic, it taste like garlic, but it has little bulb lets around the main bulb. The main bulb gets about 1 inch in diameter & pickles well. The owner told me, he just lets it grow & digs it as needed. Anyone know what this is. |
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| Sounds like elephant garlic but without a picture or better description I'm not sure. |
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| Never heard of elephant garlic that did not have cloves, all that I have bought & grew had large cloves. This bulb is round like pearl onions, but has flat leaves & garlic taste. The man who gave me my start, pickles it. The bulbs are round not wedge shaped like every other kind of garlic I have seen in the last 40 years. I will get a photo when I dig it next fall, did not think to take photos before planting the bulbs. I ask a garlic grower on a site & he said it sound like a Chinese garlic, but also would like a photo. Hopefully it will multiply this coming season & I can spread the bulbs around. That way it will not be so rare in a few years. |
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| I just thought elephant garlic because of the bulbs around the main bulb thing you mentioned. On second thought this link might be what you are describing. |
Here is a link that might be useful: single bulb garlic
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| Thanks, madroneb. This link was helpful. |
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| Harvest my organic garlic, my single clove garlic is still green & blooming. |
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Here is a pic of my single clove garlic, I will not pull it until it's bottom leaves die.  tried to turn pic, no luck. |
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| The garlic still green with no dry blades, i have cut back on watering to be safe. |
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