I get some good oil - virgin first pressed if possible and bottle it up with several cloves of garlic - leave in the cool and dark for a few weeks and you will get the most fantastic garlic oil ever for cooking and salads. Alternatively garlic soup is mega-good and puts hairs on your chest in winter. You could freeze it whole if you don;t mind it being soft when it defrosts. I use it for cooking after it's been frozen so the soup would be my first bet.

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Cosmic

just keep it dry...it won't go off if dry and will not start to sprout until it is ready to be planted again...you have a few months left so itt should be all gone by then
Peter

I just string it up and leave it . Like derb says, it needs to be kept dry. But it keeps for ages.

Nick, platte them by the leaves, find somewhere high n dry to hang them up and they will last for yonks.. Cheers

We had to take ours out early this year and they are quite small. They also had small or no tops left so plaiting them wasn't an option, so I cleaned them off and put them in an onion bag (mesh kind) and they hand in my pantry. They won't last even 3 months the way we go through garlic :-) I think the reasons they didn't thrive this year were from a couple of factors - first, they probably didn't get enough sun as we put them in a new bed behind the house on the east side and throughout winter they were probably in too much shade. Second, I don't think they were well-drained enough as the bed was on top of clay hence we had to pull them up when the late spring heavy rains came, to save them from turning to mush. This happened to us last year as well tho their size was better. Next year, I'm putting them into one of our "proper" beds where capsicum will be going, since they will be finishing just as the caps want to be planted.

We have the opposite prolem to most and have a garden that is very sandy. the garlic I transplanted a couple of times throughout it's growing as I originally planted it as part of a companion crop for broccoli, moved it to the next available space next to some cabbages and then changed the garden around completely and put it a space of its own. surprisingly it still grew.