Garlic is super easy to grow, just get good quality, organic garlic from your local farmer's market, split the bulbs up into seperate cloves and and stick them in good soil with the flat end down. You can plant garlic in the spring or the fall, you will get curly scapes in 3 months that are a tasty treat and then when the leaves turn yellow it is time to harvest fresh, organic garlic. This is a very low maintenance plant, weed and water, harvest and replant some of your bulbs for the next season.

@Surfpirate In Texas it is a winter crop, the heat here is too much if it is planted past Feb. For best results mid to late Oct.

@glennlab can I still plant it?

@Zoohome Up until mid Feb. It should have a long enough season to mature and not bolt.

We go though about 100 garlic bulbs per year, I give away about 100 bulbs to friends and family, I break up about 100 bulbs and replant them for next year. It works for the most part, I don't care for that Chinese garlic they grow in who knows what, no flavour and possibly contaminated with heavy metals.

@Surfpirate I always manage to mis watering & so they die. One day, one day I'll find a roundtuit & install that auto sprinker system. Til then I'll buy the iodine defcient, ironrich Australian garlic grown in WASP or Australian Chinese poo.

The threads are still used in latin america to make rope but I think you are referring to yuca aka cassava for the edible plant or maybe the agave which looks very similar and is most famous for the blue variety that is used to make tequila. Cassava pie was my favourite dish at this time of year when I lived in Bermuda, delicious.

I had yucca in a Peruvian restaurant....indeed hard to avoid! vVery, very starchy consistency, not much flavor, even though in a flavorful broth

@AnneWimsey Yes, very common in Ecuador and Peru which I find surprising when you consider how many different and delicious potatoes they have to choose from.

I believe there are several edible yuccas out there. The native Americans also ate a yucca and used other parts for housing, etc. I think it is closer to this one on the pic, but still not the same.
The common yucca others are talking is a whole different plant. Extremely popular in south america.

When I went to Mesa Verde national park, they pointed out the edible yucca, I'll see if I can find a pic.