From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
   ...   
   > I my feral trough, I planted five olive sized   
   > garlic bulbs just to see how they will go feral.   
      
     are they a hardneck garlic?   
      
     did the bulbs have individual cloves in them   
   or were they a single clove?   
      
     the first year for many scape bulbules will mean   
   they grow larger but don't subdivide, the second   
   year they often will divide and from then on you   
   have a clump which will cycle through.  so some of   
   the cloves will increase while others will either   
   be dormant or stay about the same size.  that is   
   why it is hard to remove once it goes off to the   
   wild.  you think you've pulled it all but there   
   are some cloves down there hiding.  so you have to   
   dig it up and sift the soil pretty well to find   
   them all and even then you might miss a tiny one   
   and it will then be back the next time the weather   
   turns cool/wet again.  these plants have cunning   
   plans for world domination.   
      
     i gave my sister some bulbules years ago and they   
   put them on her land in southern CO (which is   
   probably similar to what you have there for climate)   
   and so far they are surviving, but not doing much   
   else.  i don't know how they are doing the past few   
   years now that a gardener is staying there more of   
   the time, perhaps they finally got fertilized and   
   watered more or ...  will have to ask.  :)   
      
      
   > I will be interesting!   
      
     :)  always!  life is tenacious.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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