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Several weeks back, I cut the lovely, swanlike flower tops off my hardneck garlic and, because I was doing too many things at once, threw them on a bare patch of ground. Today I was harvesting nearby and decided to clean up. Well, the swan's head papery covering had come of some of the flower stalks and there was the little puff-ball I'm beginning to recognize as an onion family flower. Only rice-grain size mini-cloves were coming off the puffballs.
Can I plant them? Will they grow true?
I looked in my reference books and one said no, they're sterile. (Why would a plant bother to do all that work for nothing?) Another book said yes, but they take two years to grow.
So which is it? =)
If it matters, the variety is Music. It was planted near some softneck garlic, but I don't remember if they sent up flower stalks at the same time. Plus, the flower itself seemed to be enclosed in the papery covering.
What will happen if I plant my mini-cloves?
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