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As for the types of garlic you can grow, there are two main varieties: softneck, which keeps for many months and features a flexible stem, and hardneck, which has a stiff stem.
Many gardeners like to cure garlic by braiding together the stems of 6 to 10 bulbs and hanging the bundles to cure. Braid similar varieties together and label them to keep track of different ...
Seedlings develop two axes of growth: stems, which develop upward out of the soil, and roots, which develop downward. The roots are modified to have root hairs and branch indiscriminately with cells that take in water and nutrients, while the stems are modified to move water and nutrients to and from the leaves and flowers.
Tubers develop from either the stem or the root. Stem tubers grow from rhizomes or runners that swell from storing nutrients while root tubers propagate from roots that are modified to store nutrients and get too large and produce a new plant. [22] Examples of stem tubers are potatoes and yams and examples of root tubers are sweet potatoes and ...
Plant it and a new garlic plant will arise. The germ starts out white, but it turns green when it sprouts. Time, as well as exposure to humidity or light, can affect the sprouting process.
A piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil. If the conditions are suitable, the plant piece will begin to grow as a new plant independent of the parent, a process known as striking. A stem cutting produces new roots, and a root cutting produces new stems. Some plants can be grown from leaf ...
The tender green center is actually the beginning of a new garlic plant and have a mild grassy flavor, according to a report by Cook's Illustrated. The bitterness actually comes from the clove itself.
Immature garlic is sometimes pulled, rather like a scallion, and sold as "green garlic". [58] When green garlic is allowed to grow past the "scallion" stage, but not permitted to fully mature, it may produce a garlic "round", a bulb like a boiling onion, but not separated into cloves like a mature bulb. [59] Green garlic imparts a garlic flavor ...