Garlic

[Shadiya]

My garlic hasn't done very well this year, hardly bulbed up at all so I have a huge harvest of mini bulbs about the same size as my thumb - dang.

So I'm thinking that some kind of preservation is in order but what? I'm a newbie to all this, thought I'd ask and see if anyone here has any interesting ideas.

[Christopher Weeks]

They last as near to forever as you could like if you brine them for a few weeks like sour pickles and then put them in the fridge. I'm currently fermenting garlic in miso, but I don't yet know how they'll be.

[Tim Hall]

This is not so much a ferment, but whole garlic cloves preserved in honey are awesome. Can be used in dishes that call for both garlic and a little sweetness. I would take a spoonful a day when I worked around other people during flu season.

[microdot]

So did you ferment any of your garlic?
You can also replant some of the bulbs if you haven't already. I've been delighted with small cloves that I harvested the 1st year and re-planted. My fall/winter planted garlic produces way better than anything planted in early spring. This year I bought some large garlic online to produce some monsters next year.
I like to put a couple dozen crushed cloves of garlic in a bottle of organic apple cider vinegar to keep me healthy during cold/flu season. I add it to water and also make salad dressing.
I'm just getting into fermenting vegetables, but am experienced with beer/wine/mead, so I haven't done straight garlic yet. Definitely something to explore.

[Ido]

This is not so much a ferment, but whole garlic cloves preserved in honey are awesome. Can be used in dishes that call for both garlic and a little sweetness. I would take a spoonful a day when I worked around other people during flu season.

Tim, I do this with garlic & honey, kinda like a salad:
kraut, chopped up fresh garlic+coriander+cucumbers, honey, olive oil, bit of soy sauce/taryaki.
I like lotsa live garlic. it's a killer, not for the faint of heart :).
I found out honey and ferments like each other,
it's cool going back in time, eh?