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One garlic growing enthusiast here in Finland claims that the biggest cloves should not be planted, because those will not grow the biggest bulbs. He says that it is best to plant the average size cloves from the biggest bulbs.
The biggest cloves in the garlic head may be such that there are actually two cloves fused together and such cloves will grow into two separate bulbs, which will then be smaller when growing together.

I usually select large and uniform bulbs as my seed stock. I avoid planting from bulbs which have only couple of huge cloves, unless it is a rare variety, which I have to plant all what I have in order to multiply them. It feels sad to use all the best looking bulbs for planting and eat all the ugly ones, but that is the way to guarantee good harvest next season too.

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