I bought some elephant garlic from the store, and I read that for the garlic to grow properly, garlic bulbs need to be in the cold for a few weeks. Is it still possible for me to refrigerate them now and plant them in June?
I live in a zone 10b, so I was worried it would be too hot after taking them out, but I can also try to grow them indoors.
I also read that garlic is often sprayed with growth inhibitors, and I wanted to know if there's something I can do to let the garlic still grow. I'm as these are store-bought, and I'm not sure if they were sprayed.
by ChamomileTeaBags
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In your zone I think it’d work. They need to be in cold for about 6-12 weeks though, not a couple weeks.
My first year I didn’t know anything about garlic needing to be cold first. They grew just fine. Give it a shot. What do you have to loose?
FYI elephant garlic cloves will just grow a regular sized head of garlic without cloves (just one solid piece). They will have a little bulb thing on the side of them that you replant to get actual elephant garlic heads the next year.
Most likely it will grow a top then yellow and die without making a bulb. They switch from root and leaves to focusing on bulb making based on day length. I plant in October and harvest in June. If I am too early then instead of one big bulb they split into many over crowded small bulbs