Top setting garlic

[Bal]

While visiting family in Canada last week I was given some garlic bulbs which are tiny about the size of a large marble, they contain loads of tiny garlic cloves about .5cm big. These grow on top of the garlic plants. Does any one know anything about them. I was going to plant them in the veggie beds, but the are meant to be a permanent plant a bit like Egyptian walking onions, so will have to plant elsewhere as I want to rotate my crops. Any advice welcome. Thanks

[Bigmallly]

Top-Setting Garlic (Hardnecks)
Top-setting garlic can be propagated either from cloves or bulbils. Bulbils should be planted in the late winter or early spring in a location where they can remain undisturbed for 1 1/2 years. In the fall of the first growing season, bulbils will form larger unsegmented bulbs called "rounds." Left undisturbed, rounds will form segmented bulbs the following summer.
Top-setting garlic will form seedstalks in the late spring. What appears to be a single leaf will emerge from the centre of the plant. This hollow stalk will reach 2 to 3 feet tall and form one or more coils on the end of the stalk, terminating in a heart-shaped spathe. Seedstalks can be removed when they form to force more energy into the developing cloves. Growers wishing to produce bulbils should leave the stalk undisturbed.

NMSU: Garlic Production in New Mexico

[Bal]

So the little bulbils on top are actually the "seeds" of the plant?

[Bigmallly]

Looks like it Bal & they take 2 years to crop.

[Bal]

Thanks. Will put them in the herb garden the curly tops look quit weird and wonderful