Disappointing garlic

[Mrs Ava]

Delicious indeedy Kitty!

Curry, I tried growing those little bulbils on in pots, but after 2 years, they weren't much bigger so binned them.

As I have such bad white rot and my garlic crop won't store, what I plan to do in about 2 weeks time is lift the entire crop then spend a rather interesting couple of hours cleaning them all into clean cloves.  These will all go into my blender where they will be blitzed into a paste (still a little chunky though I hope).  This paste will then be divided into ice cube trays and frozen.  Once frozen I will chuck them all into a tupperware box and store them in my freezer.  When I want garlic for a dish, I just take out a cube and drop it in.  If I want it for garlic butter etc, I take a cube out, let it thaw, then blend accordingly.  Good idea huh!?

[Mrs Ava]

[Jill]

Very good idea, EJ.  Specially for the uncloved ping pong balls I've so far uncovered. ;D

[amanda21]

Another question - should you be able to see the cloves when dug up? - mine where there but only under quite a few layers of 'skin'.

[Squashfan]

Amanda, I think so. You can at least see the outline of cloves, they're kind of lumpy.

[Robert_Brenchley]

They're supposed to have several layers of skin so don't let that worry you.