Freezing garlic ?

TC1

I have a glut of small garlic cloves. They are a too small to dry and use later but thought I could chop them up and freeze them. I think they have contracted some sort of rust ,the leaves have died off so no point leaving them in the ground.

Anyone any thoughts ?

sparrer

TC1 wrote: »

I have a glut of small garlic cloves. They are a too small to dry and use later but thought I could chop them up and freeze them. I think they have contracted some sort of rust ,the leaves have died off so no point leaving them in the ground.

Anyone any thoughts ?

My garlic came to nothing last year so I spent an evening peeling the tiny cloves, left them whole but slightly crushed, and froze them. They kept perfectly well in a plastic tub. I used from frozen for anything you would use fresh garlic for so I would say yes, freezing is a definite option
hth

TC1

Sparrer thanks that definitely helps.

Sally_A

Agree, you can mince the cloves and store in a tub in the freezer, just scoop off what you need as and when.

I wouldn't be too keen to dig them up just yet though, they may fill out some more - usual harvesting time is July/August when the leaves die back. The rust affects the leaves not the bulbs.

I won't start using mine until June, and then I'll only dig up one bulb at a time on an as needed basis.

Seems a shame you have so many small bulbs; which variety did you plant?

TC1

Sally_A wrote: »

Agree, you can mince the cloves and store in a tub in the freezer, just scoop off what you need as and when.

I wouldn't be too keen to dig them up just yet though, they may fill out some more - usual harvesting time is July/August when the leaves die back. The rust affects the leaves not the bulbs.

I won't start using mine until June, and then I'll only dig up one bulb at a time on an as needed basis.

Seems a shame you have so many small bulbs; which variety did you plant?

Hi Sally A, thanks for the reply. I'm not sure of the variety I think they sprouted from some bulbs I had left in the ground last year. That could be the reason for the small bulbs ? Taste good anyway. Maybe I'll pull some up and freeze and leave the others to see what happens.:):)

Emma_whitnash

I never knew you could freeze garlic, thanks peeps. Another useful tip! I threw my garlic on the compost heap last year because they didn't do anything (due to lack of watering), shoudl have kept them. Oh well hindsight & all that.

newsgroup_monkey

you'll have lots of Garlic growing in your compost then?

Did you realise that for every clove, they'll grow a bead? And if you let them go to seed, you'll have squillions (as I've found out)