Perhaps you have garlic that hasn't formed cloves, only rounds. This may happen when plants do not have good enough conditions to grow and divide into a bulb with cloves. "Good" could involve size of cloves planted, temperature, snow cover, moisture, etc. some of which you can not control much. Check some garlic round photos and see if that is what happened. Scroll down a bit on this link and see if yours look like these rounds. http://www.gastronomicgardener.com/garlic-harvest-update/

Thank you, Leslie! Stephen, I'm retired and most of my spare time is spent working in the garden. Not all ten acres is worked on. Some of it is left natural with a minimum of interference. Most of my work in the garden is maintenance even though I've tried to keep that to a minimum. I don't grow anything I would have to spray to keep it healthy. Nothing that self seeds to the point it's a pain. The only plant I shear is the Crocagator and I'm usually behind on that. I don't even grow any trees with large leaves I have to rake up. Small leaves are absorbed by the groundcovers or chewed up by the lawnmower. My lawn has been reduced to the size of the average living room. A certified arborist drops his chips off here and I use them as much as I have time for. My wheelbarrow has more miles on it than my truck and my tiller has more miles on it than my lawnmower. I am landscaping a new area of about 6000 sq. ft. and should have it done by this Fall. There's a lot of prep work involved consisting of stumps, old logs, roots, rocks, grade change, and blackberries. Water is available and the rock wall is finished. The work is going smoothly, albeit slower than I'd like. At 72, I'm slowing down a bit. That, and my wife keeps dragging me away on vacation. The work is fun and it keeps me young. If I had stayed behind a desk at Boeing, I'd be dead by now. Mike

Shoot, I meant to post this in Kitchens, the other forum I regularly lurk. But any advice here is welcome too!

Yes, there is a way. I learned this by growing in NY. Phals are such fun to bloom and you can control the flowers and their placement. When the Phal is beginning to spike, move the plant back a bit from the window. Your goal is to elongate the spike. If the spike gets too much sun it will flower on a short spike. So your goal is to keep moving the spike back from the window. You must do this before it sets buds. I used CFL lamps as well. Not only could I control the length of the spike, I could control the curve of the spike. I hope you can understand what I'm trying to explain. You only want the tip of the spike getting sun and keep moving it back to force it to elongate. Continue to stake it and keep it in exactly the same position facing the light. You can train the spike and your flowers will be properly spaced. Jane