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One of the heads of garlic I grew turned out to be just one solid clove (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by thrawn21@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[Image description: a perfectly round peeled bulb of garlic on a cutting board, with unpeeled normal cloves behind it.]

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[–] rjthyen@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Missed the whole scape not just one individual bulb I'm guessing? My brain was struggling to piece together what i was looking at lol

[–] DinosaurSr@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Haha yeah sorry that's a bad pic. The scape is the curly thing that grows off the top of the plant in the spring, and then and flowers. If you're growing garlic, you'd normally cut the scape so that the plant puts more energy into the bulb instead of the flower. Here's a pic of the whole thing: