Beginner Gardening: Grocery store garlic?, 1 by HoneybeeNC

HoneybeeNC wrote:
Horseshoe - the first summer (2007) I grew garlic purchased from an online vendor, and I remember muttering to myself that it looked just like what I usually purchase from the supermarket, only a great deal more expensive!

2008 - I planted garlic I purchased from the supermarket - they were pure white and grew very well. I seem to remember that they had roots.

2009 - I planted more garlic from the supermarket - they had a slight purple cast. Hubby and I agreed that we liked the taste, so I saved some of the cloves.

2010 - this year we had a great garlic harvest, and I have already set cloves for next summer's harvest.

I think what I have is a soft neck artichoke type as these sometimes have purple blotches according to this link:

http://www.garlic-central.com/varieties.html

Quoting: 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?

Sorry, Horseshoe, I don't have any seed garlic from another source to compare with your photo :(

Quoting:Lo and Behold, inside was the life force, perfectly comfortable and just waiting its turn to perform! Pretty neat, eh?

Thanks for sharing the photo. So did you eat it, or plant it? Personally, I would have eaten it!

This photo is of the cloves I set November 19th - they really should have been planted at the end of October.