I planted garlic in a raised bed, 5 cloves per sq ft.
All plants had scapes and seed heads (bubils or whatever). I didn't break them off.
Spanish Roja: DISMAL failure. Tiny bulbs of maybe 3 cloves were produced.
Wildfire: Small bulbs. Unless the flavour is rockin', byebye for next year.
Metechi: small -med bulbs
Persian Star: big bulbs
Music: med-big bulbs
Susan Delafield: med
Dan's Russian TBD
Leningrad TBD
GeorgianFire TBD
Will pull up the other bulbs soon. Will post pics when time allows. Hopefully will be able to taste a few to report on flavour.
My local Farmers Market sells a lot of "Music" and russian varieties. What grows well for you? (in our climate).
I will try to plant some of my harvest for next year to see if they get better since they will have been acclimatized and "darwinized". I'm too lazy to do anything with the bubils.
The stiffneck Russian variety worked for me. It seems to help to cut off the scapes. I haven't tried other varieties in this climate (I'm in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan).
