By Amy Grant Garlic propagation is often associated with the planting of garlic cloves, also referred to as vegetative reproduction or cloning. Another method for commercial propagation is on the rise too, growing garlic from bulbils. The question is can you, the home gardener, grow garlic from bulbils? Can You Grow Garlic Bulbils? First off, you may be wondering what a “bulbil” is. Bulbils are tiny, undivided bulbs produced in the scape of hardneck garlic. The scape looks like a garlic flower; however, the reproductive parts are for show only, there is no cross pollination. Essentially, the bulbils are clones of the mother plant that can be planted to produce a replica of this parent. There may be less than ten garlic plant bulbils or one hundred fifty, depending upon the variety. Bulbil size ranges as well, from that of a grain of rice to the size of a chickpea. So the
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