Or get your garlic from the grocery store, separate the bulbs and plant it.
I’ve done that. Worked out great too! But if you’ve never tried the different ‘gourmet’ garlics you don’t know what you’re missing! They’re yummy!
Grocery store garlic works if your climate approximates SoCal where most of it is grown. I don’t grow out the Chicom garlic. Ew, who knows what that was sprayed/watered/etc with.
The Socal garlics are probably not completely hardy in the far north or very cold environs.
It might work as spring planted garlic somewhere it wasn’t winter hardy though.
I’ve planted grocery store garlic several times and had good results.
I’ve got two pots of ginger from Kroger in my driveway right now. I got a big ginger root that had lots of the white button looking ‘eyes’ on it and separated it into hunks. Let those dry/harden off overnight and planted them in big pots. It’s tropical so not hardy here over winter. I will plant it out next spring though so it can make a decent amount of ginger roots. It’s about 6” tall right now with several little sprout thingies coming up.
My next project will be turmeric root(s) from the local Asian market.
“get your garlic from the grocery store, separate the bulbs and plant it.”
I’ve heard that is a distinct possibility, and for sure some of the garlic I’ve purchased in the past has sprouted while it sat in my onion/garlic basket. But I did read recently that sometimes the grocery store garlic is treated with something that inhibits sprouting.
I guess what I need to do, is next time I get a sprouter, I need to just PLANT IT!