How Long Do Garlic Bulbils Remain Viable?

[JRinPA]

So you pulled spring planted cloves while green instead of letting them brown and fall over? I have a bunch of buckets of bulbils that I'm waiting for them to die back. A few scaped but most did not.

[bower]

Actuallly most of them had fallen over.
Also since we've had a few good rains right around garlic harvest time, I noticed that the effects on my bulbs were not great. Some pink wrappers on the porcelain, and besides the usual occasional bites out of my bulbs, I found a wireworm right in among the roots of one I pulled. Cooler and damper weather and they come up close to the surface looking for something to bite. Since that is about fatal for rounds, I decided to pull them after I cleaned the rest of the crop, and spare the wireworm losses.
I need to bait those beds now with some potato pieces on sticks, and see how much damage I can do to the ww population.