We planted hard neck garden from garlic cloves we were given from my sister, who is a prolific garlic grower from NW Indiana. We planted the garlic in a raised bed and in October and covered it with grass clippings as mulch. My sister’s garlic is going gangbusters, where ours has not sprouted. I dug around and found a clove. It looked very brown on the outside and had red growths on the outside of the clove, appearing to me to be some sort of fungus that was eating the clove. I will upload a picture. Your diagnosis on what went wrong and what to do differently in the future would be helpful. We love everything gatlic: cloves, scapes, bubils.