Did you just buy it at the grocery or was it at a garden place so you knew it was to plant?
I think I won't use that big pot. I've got a wood planter on the ground and if this thing does multiply, better to have it where it can spread out than have it in a big pot. I also have a planter attached to a brick wall but it doesn't get much sun. Maybe I'll plant one of them there and see if that one lives.
I'll do this planting tomorrow.
It was an elephant garlic bulb I got at the grocery store. I broke the individual bulbs off the base plate, soaked it overnight in warm water, peeled all the papery stuff off and planted the cloves, pointy side up, about 8” apart, square.
I planted out a bunch of the regular California white garlic from the grocery store too. Went to make garlic butter, opened up a clove and saw little green sprouts! Did the same thing. Broke them all off the base plate, gently, soaked them and peeled them and planted them pointy side up about 6” square.
Those are about 10” tall now too. Even the teeny little ones. I have the super teeny ones planted in a container on my driveway.
BTW, the smaller the clove you plant, the smaller the garlic bulb. Lots of places tell you to sort it before you plant it, use the teeny ones in the kitchen, and only plant out the bigger cloves. I wasn’t going to peel all those little ones that weren’t much bigger than my fingernail. And I didn’t have the heart to throw them away either. So I’m going to feed them this spring and summer and see how big they get.