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 Hallo all !   :)   I was thilled to harvest my garlic this morning and have hung them up to dry off .    I found about 8 little baby bulbs growing around the base of them ...some fell off as I took the garlic up .     What should I best do with these now ..I dont want to waste anything ?     

Use them if you can be bothered. I get bulbils round the bases on my elephant garlic, and justabove soil level in the stems of some of my garlic. They're OK to use, but so fiddly I don't usually bother.

Hi Robert !  No ...I meant ..er.. ..to grow on ?

You plant small garlic cloves you only get small in return.

A bloke from the Isle of Wight Garlic farm told me to plant those bits - they're not line normal bulbs, apparently. Never got round to it meself but I got the impression it's not like planting small cloves...

I tried planting mine but they did not do anything after a couple of weeks so i took them up and ate them!!

...yes ,but surely they must be !    Are they not  like the "scales" or baby bulbs that grow off of  daffodils ,lilies or tulips ?    

oops sorry Cambourne 7 we both seemed to post at the same time !  Any way I am pleased with my harvest .

hehe great minds :-)

I think you're correct Rohaise, matey from IOW Garlic actually called them seeds which of course they're not, but I got the impression they are better/different to/than small cloves...

Oh, and I meant like, not live, of course!

Theyre regarded as seeds rather than cloves or bulbs because they take an additional year to harvest - the first year they form a bulb and the second they mature.  They do take a month or so to get going though.

Have grown my elephant garlic like this for the last 2 years.

Thanks Ollie ...hey..that  looks like a helpful little person you,ve got there ,beside you in your picture !      :D  x
    Plotofweeds  .............so perhaps I would be best off potting the little things up till they are bigger then, say next year ?      :-\  Rohaise   x

Yes thats what I do, either in pots or in a nursery bed.