![]() If you have garlic sprout mid-winter when the soil is frozen, you can’t plant it outside (but you can plant it indoors in a pot). You can plant sprouted garlic, but whether or not you can plant it outdoors depends on when it sprouts. These spring-planted garlic cloves can be planted now, but they’ll obviously have some catching up to do. I’ve set the sprouted garlic next to it for comparison. Our fall-planted garlic has already sprouted and has greens that are about 6” tall as of May 1st here in Vermont. ![]() We store garlic all winter long, but inevitably we’ll have some sprouting garlic cloves in the spring. We eat it by the bushel full, so she’d come to the right place. We plant garlic in the fall, and hundreds of cloves go into the soil for a harvest the following summer. She knows, however, that we grow a lot of garlic each year. Is sprouted garlic safe to eat? Can you plant sprouted garlic? She had no idea. (That’s how it got lost in the first place.) She’d never grown garlic and didn’t cook with it often. This past spring, my mom called looking for advice because her garlic was sprouting in her pantry, and she had no idea what to do with it. Planting sprouted garlic is a great way to give these forgotten veggies a second life, and each clove will grow a whole new garlic bulb in just a few months. It’s happened to everybody, that forgotten garlic bulb that you find after it’s developed a life of its own. ![]() Still, garlic will sprout in the pantry if you store it long enough or in less than optimal conditions. Garlic usually stores quite well, and it’ll keep for months in most cases.
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