More about garlic planting....

[antipodes]

I had thought that my garlic was buggered. the couple I had dug up were tiny (like a cherry tomato size) so I thought well they aren't going to do anything more, so yesterday with my daughter's "help" I dug them all up.
Now in fact they HAD bulbed into cloves but the cloves are tiny!! I couldn't possibly cook with them. My question is, can I just break apart these mini-bulbs and plant the cloves again, to try and over winter them??
The cloves are healthy, and pink and the original bulbs are proper gardening bulbs so should be disease free. I had planted them late February so maybe they didn't get enough cold?
I took some pics but forgot to bring my camera's cable to work.
It was quite a funny digging session, we found some "surprise spuds" that were better than my real crop, ha ha. And my little girl grubbed around in the dirt looking for wayward garlic so she had a whale of a time.

[antipodes]

[Robert_Brenchley]

You can replant them - I've done it - but the resulting garlic will be just as small. It's OK as green garlic, but nothing else. If you want decent bulbs, you have to plant big cloves.

[LucyJ]

I have brought up one little one as the book i had said when the leaves fell over it was time to pull them up, but it was so small i left the others in the ground, now I've heard I'm supposed to wait till the first frost, so thats fine for the other ones I'll do that but One of mine has a flower on it, should i cut off the flower or leave it?????

Thanking you

Lucy

[saddad]

I leave them..
:-\