Soft neck garlic and hard neck garlic: What is the difference?

Understanding softneck and hardneck garlic.

Soft neck garlic and hard neck garlic: What is the difference?

When discussing garlic, you will often come across terms like hardneck, softneck, semi-bolting, bolting, strongly bolting, weakly bolting, scapes and more. These all refer to the way different cultivars of garlic grow. 

Basically, some garlics produce scapes (a flower stem) – these are known as hardneck, while others do not – these are known as softneck. 

What is softneck garlic?

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