You can plant garlic from the bulbs you buy at the supermarket, just split them up and plant them approx 10cms apart.

I had heard the supermarket bulbs were treated with an anti-sprouting chemical so they dont grow whilst on the shelves, so growing them might be slow or not at all. I have only heard this though - havent tried it!

hey yolandavargas90

send me an email
william.beer@gmail.com

leave your address and variety names(or the types of chillis you would like, ie. hot, mild,sweet, ornamental etc.)

Kind Regards,
Will

I send you an email a while back, do you still have chilli seeds, the ones am looking for are hot ones, let me know.
Thanks

I can send you birds eye chilli if you want them.

When ever I buy Garlic from fruit shops it sits around so long it always sprouts.
Thrips wife Anne

If you are still wanting chilli, I can send you some black chilli. Small, interesting plant...chilli not too hot.
Email me if you are interested.
Karen.

jaykoko
I think the "garlic won't sprout" story is an urban myth spread by the supermarkets so that you won't grow your own.

I've planted about a dozen bulbs with most of them cloves growing.

You must make sure that when you break up the bulb you get a bit of the growth crown(??) on the clove of garlic. It's the hard bit on the bottom of the bulb. The hard bit is where the roots choot from and without it the garlic won't grow.

Plant it fairly thickly and use the green tops as a salad/stir fry vegetable.