Garlic from grocery store Q

Anybody know what kind of garlic you get for cooking at the grocery stores? I had one with leftover cloves and planted them. They are sprouted but I don't know what they are or how to care for them.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Kwanjin, cant help you as far as the type of Garlic there is from the grocery store as our stuff here comes mostly from over seas, at this time of year, I do know that the garlic you have planted will serve you in lots of other ways even IF you cant eat it.
If you plant the cloves around your roses, it helps keep greenfly away, the greenfly and some other bugs dont like the smell of the Garlic and repels them, I stick some alongside my carrots too and the dreaded carrot fly flees on by leaving the tender baby carrots alone, so if someone can tell you what type of Garlic you have and it grows well, you have a double whammy in your garden to enjoy. Good luck. Weenel.

Thanks, Nel. It's inside right now but I'll take your advice and, this Spring, plant them outside by the roses.

I was hoping to get flowers out of these and, perhaps, more garlic, as well.

If you bought edible garlic, the shoots that grow from the bulbs will also be edible. It's most likely a softneck variety since that's the most frequently grown for commercial use.

Just treat it like any garlic.

Well, I stuck it in the pot about a week ago and now it 6" tall. Iwent back to the store and found where I got it. It says they're from California. I'll wait and see what happens.

Thanks, ZS and Nel.

Wow - this concept just blows me away. I've never thought of taking produce from the grocery store and planting it. Is there anything else you can do this with?

Also - what about the seeds from bell peppers. Can you dry these out and replant like you would flower seeds? I've never grown veggies before....

I know there are bunches of things you can plant. I tried this with cucumbers and squash when I was a kid back in the stone age.

The bell peppers would work easily, although, I don't know what the results of these experiments would be; if they would come true or not.

Ask on the Beginner Veggie Forum. I'm curious to know, as well.

Most grocery store veggies are hybrids, so trying to save seed will not necessarily result in what you think it should, though it could be looked at as sort of an adventure.

I used to use grocery store potatoes for potato starts, but nowadays they're treated with anti-sprouting agents. They'll still sprout eventually but these days I usually buy my potato starts too.

Ginger is one of the few things you get in the grocery that you can use this way, I do it to grow ginger shoots - it's mondo expensive buying it from seed/bulb suppliers, much cheaper to buy some garlic in the grocery store.