Softneck garlic is the more common variety you buy at the grocery store. It tends to have more cloves per bulb, grows well in a warm climate, and stores for longer. But it has less flavor. Hardneck ...

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Planting garlic in the fall is one of the simplest and most rewarding things you can do in your garden. No matter how much ...

Garlic bulbs are harvested about one month after garlic scapes appear, but different varieties of garlic mature at different rates and softneck garlic varieties don’t produce scapes at all. This ...

They can be planted in the garden but you may have to wait several years until they form a sizable bulb. For this reason, hardneck garlic, like softneck, is typically propagated from cloves ...

Garlic bulb and garlic cloves on the wooden table in the garden. Explore the differences between hardneck vs softneck garlic and the different garlic types and how they are classified. When ...

Softneck garlic: These have a milder flavor and are ... The scape is the flower stalk, but the flower uses all the energy from the bulb and must be trimmed off (or pulled out, see the below ...