Planting garlic

Echowysp

Do I just use the garlic I use for cooking or is there a special one to buy at the nursery?

TIA!

RiverPlate

I just planted garlic for the first time.  I bought mine at my local garden center, the elephant garlic was 85 cents with probably 12 individual cloves in it.

Catlawdy_____

I had some that got old and sprouted in the house, I stuck it in the ground and had garlic the next year.

juno

I've read that some grocery store garlic is treated to keep it from sprouting.  The articles I've read said grocery store garlic may not sprout or it may have very small heads if it does sprout.

I've planted farmers' market garlic in the past and had good luck.  I've started ordering from Seed Savers Exchange so that I can experiment with different varieties.  There aren't enough choices in the nurseries for me.

nital

i planted some farmer's market garlic about 3 weeks ago, and threw in a couple cloves from the grocery store too while i was at it.  so far, the farmer's market ones are growing, and i've seen no sign of the grocery store garlic yet. 

Echowysp

Thanks for the replies.  I will have to try to order some fast to get them in the ground in time.