You can stick plain old grocery store garlic cloves in the ground and they will grow fine. But it's mostly softneck. For garlic lovers who don't love having to peel lots of fiddly little cloves, hardneck is a step up. This is a broad category of garlic which has got only one layer of large cloves around a central stem. None of those fiddly little inner cloves. The down side is hardneck doesn't keep as well. Or so I've always read but we've never had any problem with it keeping through the year. I dry them in the garage and then store them in egg cartons in the pantry. #VegetableGardening #GrowYourOwn #Gardening