I'm not hot shit in a wineglass, more curried goat in a paper cup

Pretty much. :) You plant them in the Fall (September/Octoberish), though. Put them pointy end up about 5 inches, I think it is, down, and they're one of the earlier things to come up on the spring. The scapes are really the cool part, we eat those all summer, and then you pull up the plants (in late July or August around here) and you have eight cloves where you had one a year ago. Shouldn't plant them in the same place two years in a row, though, because of mildews... although we have done so, because I think we didn't read that until too late. We'll see how our root crop comes out.