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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs)
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Subject: Re: Garlic from seeds
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 17:00:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 17:00:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs    Mar 11 14:00:00 1985

> My query is, then: Is it possible to grow garlic from seeds, especially
> the "elephant garlic" variety? If so, from where can such seeds be obtained?
> 
> Or are these artificially-propagated plants which will not breed true from
> seed?

Interesting questions; I don't have the answers, but I might in six
months.  Last year my mature garlic plants flowered and developed neat
little seed heads.  I shook them off and got about 50 little seeds from
each one.  The seeds look (and taste) like tiny garlic cloves, about 4mm
long.  They are great as a seasoning (no peeling, no slicing), and seem
to grow just fine too.

Alan Silverstein