Garlic came from stems. Sweet potatoes were started in my greenhouse early last spring and then grown in large pots all summer. Cooked some for dinner today and they are really yummy. I'm just disappointed that they are so small. Thanks for any answers. Garlic sholud I plant them, eat them or compost them? ( photo / image / picture from Donna S's Garden ) Why are they so small? ( photo / image / picture from Donna S's Garden )
Just eat them. Small garlic makes small bulbs, generally. Sorry, I don't know about the sweet potatoes. I don't grow them.
I agree with Carolyn when it comes to the garlic. I visited a commercial garlic grower a couple of months ago to chat and pick up my new seed garlics for the coming year and one thing we discussed was clove size and planting for the biggest bulbs. He confirmed that the larger the clove planted, the larger the harvested bulb will be. I can almost taste those garlics there. Have you ever made garlic noodles?
BUT after I looked again at the picture, are those the flower "bulbs" not the root bulbs? If you dug those , wow, they are small, but if that came off the top of the plant that would explain why they are so small, they are more of a seed than bulbs.
Cant tell the size of the sweet potatoes. There is nothing to compare them to. Could be you dug them too early. You can leave them another month here unless you planted early. They take a long time.
Yes the garlic came from flower bulbs and is probably the seed. That's why I wondered what to do with them.
Ahhh, That explains that. do whichever you choose to with them, but I don't see any harm in planting them and seeing what you get from them since it truly is the seed, if you have the room to do it. they may be nice next year or it may be a two year crop. I have planted the "thingy" I found dangling off the elephant garlic which looks like a miniature clove encased in a very hard covering and the next year it produced a very large single bulb, not a bulb of cloves, so I replanted that and the next year was a very nice bulb of cloves.
