Strange garlic/potato onions ... or is it just me?

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ragamuffin Jul 21, 2001

This being the first year I've grown garlic, I'm not sure if it's normal... but several plants seem to be producing cloves down low on the stems, about an inch or so above the hay mulch. The hay was put down last fall, and the garlic grew through it. These are softneck varieties.

Also a couple of the garlic are producing flower buds - I thought softnecks were't supposed to do this. And should my potato onions be flowering?

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MaryE Baker City, OR(Zone 5b) Jul 24, 2001

I grow the hard neck type, haven't had any make cloves above ground, but I didn't mulch mine so maybe that told your plants they were deeper than they really are?? I have one with a bloom but it is in a volunteer row where they were planted last year and a few missed ones came up this spring. They looked to good to rototill under so they got to grow. What is a potato onion?

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ragamuffin Jul 25, 2001

Hi Mary,

Potato onions are neat! They grow more like garlic or scallions, reproducing by bulb offsets. Supposedly the large sections produce lots of little bulbs and the small sections produce big bulbs. We'll see soon, I expect, whether this is true or not. And the garlic may be almost mature - the leaves are starting to die back a bit. Maybe there are bigger cloves underground (I hope).

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