Beginner Gardening: Grocery store garlic?, 1 by Horseshoe

Horseshoe wrote:
I can believe that, Honey, about theUSDA. Remember all those phyto-laws that kicked in for certain plants a while back? I'm sure something like that comes into play for veggies (and I hope here is, too).

You've got me wondering about those "concave ends" now...wondering if that is variety specific or if from cutting roots off. Could someone look at your seed garlic from another source (i.e. not China) and see if it looks like what I have shown in the first clove pic above?

And while I have your attention I gotta show ya'll something really neat! When taking pics yesterday I wondered if this garlic, which still looks edible, was beyond sowing/planting. I broke open a clove mainly to see how fresh or dry it was and Lo and Behold, inside was the life force, perfectly comfortable and just waiting its turn to perform! Pretty neat, eh?

Shoe (back out to haul/cut more firewood before I lose my daylight)