If cloves are separated from the bulb and later planted in a garden, a new garlic bulb will grow from each. in this way, a home gardener could grow a whole crop of genetically identical garlic plants starting with one bulb. as a result of this procedure, the gardener would

soon have several varieties of garlic growing in his garden

need to buy new garlic cloves each year in order to keep growing garlic

have to fertilize the female garlic plants each year so the garlic plants could produce their own cloves

need to be aware that if any of his garlic plants became diseased, it could very likely infect the entire crop