Weedwhacker said: Aha - it didn't occur to me that you were planting the bulbils! Great way to get lots of garlic going.
I've grown the bulbils that look kind of like a top-setting onion, but the Music garlic that I have has the type in your photo and I've never been successful at getting them to grow. Do you just basically plant them like seeds, or?
Sure do! Just like seeds.
My full bulbil process, if anyone is curious.
Plant the bulbils in the fall when you would plant the usual cloves. Typical planting depth, twice the width of the seed, officially. Unofficially I scatter it like birdseed and sprinkle loose soil over it haphazardly. I put some mulch over the bed, usually grass clippings or leaves (dry or new, whatever is available). No watering, no fertilizer at planting. In spring, make sure the mulch is a very thin layer so the teeny stalks can come through, or remove the mulch and replace when the stalks are larger. Bulbils come up same as normal garlic, but the stalks are so tiny it's best to mark the spot well.
I have definitely pulled baby bulbil garlic in spring thinking grass was in the garden.
Now I have specific beds for each year of garlic.
I don't fertilize my garlic beyond the potassium all my property gets per deficiency. But too many variables for me to tell others not to fertilize. As always, do what is best for your yard. You all know your pieces of heaven better than I do.
Harvest them when you would harvest the full grown garlic, save the tiny cloves or round it produces (you will not get a full size bulb for that first harvest), and plant that again when you plant garlic in the fall. If it is still small the next year, just plant it again in the fall for a bigger bulb, keeping in mind the variety. Some just have smaller cloves.
I hope I remember to take a photo of the tiny stalks come spring.