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| The small pieces are the cloves. The larger piece is the bulb. |
Today, students in the Urban Nature Club finished planting garlic cloves in the school garden. They'll be ready to harvest at the end of the school year.
When you plant garlic, you don't plant a seed. Rather, you plant the individual cloves from a garlic bulb.
While we were planting, a question came up: "What happens to the original garlic clove after its planted? Does it become part of the new garlic bulb?
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| Garlic cloves waiting to be planted |
So Ms. Seitz did a little research and discovered that the original clove gets the new garlic plant going. Once the clove starts germinating, it sends green leaves above the soil's surface. As the new plant gets established, the original clove's job is done and it simply rots away. The new plant starts growing brand new cloves that are all clustered together in what is called a garlic bulb.
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| Established garlic plants |
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