For the first time, I have seen small "Rounds" of garlic for sale in Lidl. They are about 1/3 of the size of a traditional head of garlic and are solid with no cloves. I assume that they are sold like that, as they are easier to peel.
They are much milder than normal garlic and have a striped purple skin.
I assume that they are planted in the normal way, and lifted and dried off early, before the round starts to split into cloves.
Or perhaps they are grown from the little bulbils that are sometimes found in the flower head of hardneck garlic, sometimes called "grass". I am actually growing a container full of "garlic grass" for the first time. These will probably end up as rounds at the end of this season.
Has anyone else come across this type of garlic before?