I finally pulled out my (hardneck) garlic and its… odd. I planted it late this year and it never made scapes. My onions also had a weird year and most of them bolted so I'm not sure if it was the weather or if I just wasn't giving them what they needed. Anyway, they all have thick necks without much of a bulb shape, and some made a bunch of individual sprouts. Should I just use them all as green garlic? Thanks!
by negativeroots
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This looks like green onions (scallions) to me, but I could be wrong.
Garlic is planted in fall and harvested in spring. It bulbs out toward the end of that period.
For your part of the world, onions are planted in early spring and are harvested around midsummer. You should be planting a variety designed for your area – I am guessing long day onions but double check by zip code.
Bulbing onions are day length sensitive. They rely on lengthening days to know when to bulb out. If you plant them going into fall, yeah they won’t bulb.
Consider leeks if you want something day length agnostic.
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Where do you live? Hardneck garlic needs a period of cold weather to form cloves and scape correctly.
Hardneck has to go through a cold period for the bulbs to develop. I would say that is probably why it looks this way. Im in zone 7a. And just planted mine last week for harvest next year. Ive heard you can put them in the refrigerator for cold stratification also, so I held some of my cloves back to test that and then plant those in the spring.
Did you put the entire bulb in the ground? You’re supposed to separate the cloves and plant them separately.
That’s a leek. Pretty decent one 2. Cut the bottom tip off and use the whole white part.
In Melbourne we call them Spring onions aka scallions
You’re planting garlic wrong. Now is when you plant garlic. Let it overwinter. It needs the cold to bulb up. Then you harvest scapes in June and the bulbs in July for hardneck garlic where you live
https://www.almanac.com/plant/garlic