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Book 29, Question 47

How do you grow garlic from a single clove?

Garlic grows from cloves, the little pieces inside a garlic bulb.

In many parts of Canada, gardeners plant them in the fall, a few weeks before the ground freezes. Each clove goes into the soil with the pointed end up, about two inches deep. Roots grow before winter, and green shoots appear in spring. A new bulb is ready to dig up the next summer.

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