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"Not wet all the time" is sort of hard to figure out - do you always wait until a certain amount of the soil is dry between waterings, or forget sometimes, or do even if maybe most of the soil is soggy even if the surface is dry? And where is it kept light-wise? What about temps and humidity? You're in zone 2 (where?) but are you sure it wasn't meant to live outdoors in maybe just a slightly warmer zone and would never have lasted indoors beyond a couple of seasons? Would be nice if you could ID it somehow. Some plants do have short lives, but without knowing more about yours, it's hard to say what happened. Sorry, though.

The small bulb you dug up will not continue to grow this season, and if you leave it in the ground each clove will sprout to make a cluster of small garlic bulbs next year. You can cure it and replant the small individual cloves in the Fall, but small cloves yield small bulbs. I would just pull it again and use it in cooking. Hopefully your other plants will yield larger bulbs. Pull them when you have 2-3 green leaves left. You might want to consider some Porcelains for next years crop, like German White or Music. These tend to make larger bulbs and have pretty good storage properties. And if you get some decently large bulbs from your other plants this year, save the largest and use them for seed next year as well. Replanted garlic cloves tend to give larger bulbs each year as they acclimate to your garden. Here is a great place to buy garlic for your Fall planting: http://www.wegrowgarlic.com/catalog TomNJ

Garlic is typically planted in the fall, mulched well, and will sprout in the spring. Since yours is in a pot, I would carefully plant it in good soil with as little root disturbance as possible unless you are extraordinarily good at keeping things in pots well watered and well fed. Water it in well if you decide to plant it, and remove the scape when it starts so that energy goes into bulb formation (usually early to mid-July here.) Dig it when the leaves start dying back (late July here with the varieties I grow), but if you want to continue to grow garlic don't eat it all. In early to mid-October, separate the cloves and replant, mulch well, and next year you will have a head for each clove you planted. Use the largest cloves for replanting as they will create the largest heads the following year. I love growing garlic as it's easy and we eat a lot of it. It's also lovely to have those green leaves sprouting in early spring. I usually have some in my flower garden as well since the scapes are ornamental IMO.