Buy Garlic Bulbils/Umbels

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Picture: Bogatyr garlic bulbils.

All garlic bulbils specials have free shipping. Please see our page on how to grow garlic bulbils.

Bulbils take several years to grow to maturity.

Bulbils ship beginning Sept. 1st (they need to cure and dry just like garlic bulbs). Please see below for an estimation of how many bulbils are in a 'seedhead' (officially called an umbel).

Garlic bulbil specials include garlic umbels or 'false seedheads'. Garlic grows small bulbs called bulbils inside the garlic scape. Bulbils can be grown or eaten.

Picture: 1) Garlic 'seedhead' containing bulbils. 2) The first year after planting bulbils normally produce small garlic bulbs called rounds. 3) Second year, the rounds grow into small bulbs. 4) In the third year you usually get a mix of bulb sizes. Check out our page on growing garlic bulbils.

Estimation of number of bulbils in a umbel/scape:

Porcelain: 50-200 bulbils the size of a grain of rice; 3-5 years to maturity (Picture: Porcelain Romanian Red bulbils).

Rocambole: 10-35 large pea sized bulbils: 2-3 years to maturity

Glazed Purple Stripe: 50-150 small bulbils; 3-5 years to maturity

Purple Stripe: 50-150 small bulbils; 3-5 years to maturity

Marbled Purple Stripe: 25-60 medium sized bulbils; 2-3 years to maturity

Asiatic: 5-30 large pea to blueberry sized bulbils; 1-2 years to maturity

Turban: 30-60 medium bulbils; 2-4 years to maturity

Creole: 50-100 small bulbils; 3-4 years to maturity

Artichoke: if this garlic develops a scape it normally has between 5-15 large pea to marble sized bulbils; 1-2 years to maturity