Beginner Gardening: Grocery store garlic?, 1 by Horseshoe

Horseshoe wrote:
Garlic wouldn't grow if it had no roots. I'm sure your radio show meant the roots were trimmed though, Honeybee. Fortunately it takes very little root to bring life into garlic. Inside each clove is the root life whether one can see any on the outside.

I wonder if it would be worth the time to have people cut the little roots off each bulb. I know I wouldn't have that kind of time. Also it seems it would allow early deterioration of the harvested garlic.

This pic is of my harvested Chinese garlic planted in '08. I know my planting stock was from China because the mesh bag it came in (a 24# wholesale bag) had the import tag on it. I would've noticed the bulbs/cloves being butchered/cut on and certainly wouldn't take the time to plant them if so.

Shoe