Yes, you can. And just as a note, you can cut (or knock of) the green tops of them up to three times and they will come back too.

Ok, thanks a lot! My first time growing them, I have a lot to learn.

They're easy! I bought a few organic bulbs at the grocery and planted some about 3 weeks ago and they're already up 4 inches! LOL!

I have never heard of rooting or sprouting WHOLE garlic like that. Normally garlic is separated into cloves and the large ones planted in the garden " No need to root/soak/sprout inside.

Not WHOLE bulbs! Of coarse you break the cloves off!

My friends in NY state used to grow garlic and sell it. Their product name was Marjean. We visited them one year. The tops of the garlic leaves went to flower and they could be planted just like a garlic bulb/cloves.

Yes but that flower scape is normally cut off so the bulb can grow it's biggest. I cut mine off early.

Zackey .... those are called bulbil. You can the escapes after certain stage and keep them in water for a while. The bulbils will mature(like wild onion bulbils). Then you plant those and you'll get small single clove garlic. If you plant them again, then you will get normal garlic.

Garlic bulbils don't always produce rounds in the first year. I used to think this too because of everything I had read. Last fall I planted some bulbils and most of them that I planted made whole bulbs this summer but they were small. Below is a link showing the small bulbs.

sweetlydark- How big are the bulbs in the picture and do they have individual cloves or not? Where were they planted (inside or outside)? Were they in pots and if so, how big were the pots? How much light were they getting? I know it's a lot of questions but the more info you provide the better.

Rodney

Here is a link that might be useful: My Bulbil Experiment