Beyond being a GOATED culinary staple, garlic is botanically a crazy ass plant. It (almost) never grows from a true seed... Instead, each individual clove becomes its own plant, carrying forward the genetic makeup of its parent, BUT Because this is asexual reproduction, garlic planted from last year's bulbs will naturally adapt to your specirfic soil and climate conditions over the seasons...meaning you can buy garlic bulbs to plant and years later, you'll have "your own variety" But beyond that, most people think garlic is limited to = whatever is at the grocery store. The truth is there are at LEAST hundreds, but potentially thousands of garlic cultivars, broken out into two major categories: hardneck and softneck Hardnecks produce a rigid central stalk with fewer but larger cloves, and they generally thrive in colder regions (but I figured out how to grow them, even in warm climates) Softnecks, with their flexible stems perfect for braiding, offer more cloves per bulb and typically do better in milder climates - this is typically what you see at the grocery store Hardnecks tend to have more spice and punch to them, but store worse and need a period of what's called vernalization, or a cool period to accelerate growth when spring comes So if you want to hack hardneck garlic production in a climate where it doesn't get very cold, just put your bulbs in the fridge for a couple of months before you plant them out in November Thank you for listening to the ramblings of Garlic Daddy