I'm confused about the difference between garlic seeds vs bulbils. The flowers on my garlic are beautiful and put out hard black seeds inside little pod thingys. I have never seen a bulbil. I am deducing from this that I have softneck garlic.
I just now went out and dug up some plants. I was disappointed because they were clumped together in a big mess...about a dozen stems coming out of a six inch wide clump, and when I dug them up there was no garlic bulb on the bottom...only roots like you have at the bottom of garlic bulbs. One did have a tiny, tiny bulb. I do have a mild garlic odor coming from them. The stems and leaves are still totally green which I find strange for mid-October. The lows at my place have not gone below 50F yet. Perhaps that's why the plants are still all green. I guess I need to space them out and pay more attention to them.
As a side note, I did try to grow carrots and sugar beets in the same location three years ago and they were tiny, too. The soil must be too hard or something.
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