I have Calabrese Broccoli & Early Sprouting Purple Broccoli. Will trade for blue hopi corn.

What you have are "rounds," which, given some more growing time (and some chill) will divide into cloves. In the case of consecrated, it's probably from planting in the spring rather than last fall. Don't know why still_kris is having problems, unless you had a milder than usual winter maybe. I let some of my hardneck garlic plants mature their scapes and then plant the resulting bulbils in the fall when I plant the usual cloves. I've been doing this to increase my stock. But it takes longer to grow from bulbils to full heads. In the first year you mostly get rounds, sometimes a head with a measly two cloves. Replant the rounds in the fall and they will be normal divided heads the next June/July. With some varieties you still have rounds the SECOND year, and they will divide the THIRD year. When doing this, I always replant the largest rounds in my "seed" bed, just as I replant the largest of the divided heads, figuring a little selection for size can't hurt. You can, of course, cure and eat the rounds, as well. They taste just like divided garlic. ;-) Catherine

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The pink bulbs are definitely shallots, cut a leaf and you will find a hollow tube. Bottom extreme right is an entire garlic bulb that was missed when you harvested last season. Bottom left plants are small rounds ie: undivided garlic that may have grown from bulbils that dropped off last year’s plants or very small cloves. Garlic leaves are a v shape.