Tiny Bulbs underneath the Garlic

[Jelliebabe]

Hi there - What are these please underneath the bulb!!!? Can you plant them or eat them? Of I potted them up would they come to anything! This is an elephant garlic but I have had them before!

thanks

[veggiechicken]

I think they're baby elephant garlics Plant them again next year.
PS I haven't a clue really - but that's what I'd do

[binley100]

I've got those as well ......

[JoeDaStudd]

I also had one of them attached to one of my bulbs.
Tasted fine.

[Mikey]

I planted some of those this year but nothing happened, while the cloves that VC gave me have produced some lovely garlic heads.

I also have these on my bulbs, I'm tempted to give them a go next year again, but in pots to see if they will germinate for me. Its worth a shot.

[taff]

They're bulbils, and the skin covering them is rock hard. Plant them up, see what happens
You get them a lot on elephant garlic, not so much on normal garlic.

[lottie dolly]

I always get them,no matter how i try i cannot get any to grow up,i have just dug mine up this morning,and have purposley left some bulbils in the ground,just to seeif any grow next year,
Am glad them grew well for you mikey,mine are that much bigger this year,save the larger cloves for next years seed,

[veggiechicken]

I've just dug up a few of Lottie's elephant garlics just to see if I had bulbils too - and I have Each with a tiny root attached so I've replanted them immediately into pots - in the hope that they'll grow on
Thank you Lottie, on behalf of Mikey and I

[lottie dolly]

you said thankyou months ago ,i have put mine to dry on a slatted bench outside,the garlic i planted from A''A',was the best all rounder i had,was the first up,stayed the strongest,and made nice bulbs,they were spanish red,the ones i bought as seed,name ???,is rubbish,have a few more to get up,but if what i have turfed out are anything to go by,they will be on the burning pile,,

[veggiechicken]

Well, I'm saying Thank you again and again
I've only emptied these as they were in a pot and i was curious. Hoping that the ones in the ground will be bigger and have lots more little bulbils to play with!

[Pies]

Keep the bulbils wet never let them dry out if they dry out at any time they become useless

[snakeshack]

Keep the bulbils wet never let them dry out if they dry out at any time they become useless

yep get them straight back into nice moist soil,if they dry out there's no chance of them growing.I planted about 50 last year that I'd put "safe" in the shed til november and not one showed,the ones I missed ,still in the ground all grew into individual cloves about 2 inches diameter