Ummm...hmmmm....well....my garlic bulbs didn't reach their normal size neither and I put it down for the bleeding rust that hit the plants in big time....just as they were in the bulking stage. The tops were big and beautiful..promised all good things to come and the came the rust.
There was nothing to do really as this was more to do with weather conditions..every body had it here. Another issue I had that by the time I was ready for lifting the bleeders up, ground had dried out into solid lump and I didn't had it in me to start hacking such a quantity of bulbs out of ground.....so...once we've had bit of rain I dug them up and all the skins were already 'gone'..
No problem as such...just meaning that the cloves were dirty with soil for the lack of protecting skin around the bulbs.
But in a good note....even the bulb weren't the biggest and best I seem to have enough for planting and eating.
Not the best year and could have been even worst...but next year, it will be brilliant