What you have are "rounds," which, given some more growing time (and some chill) will divide into cloves. In the case of consecrated, it's probably from planting in the spring rather than last fall. Don't know why still_kris is having problems, unless you had a milder than usual winter maybe. I let some of my hardneck garlic plants mature their scapes and then plant the resulting bulbils in the fall when I plant the usual cloves. I've been doing this to increase my stock. But it takes longer to grow from bulbils to full heads. In the first year you mostly get rounds, sometimes a head with a measly two cloves. Replant the rounds in the fall and they will be normal divided heads the next June/July. With some varieties you still have rounds the SECOND year, and they will divide the THIRD year. When doing this, I always replant the largest rounds in my "seed" bed, just as I replant the largest of the divided heads, figuring a little selection for size can't hurt. You can, of course, cure and eat the rounds, as well. They taste just like divided garlic. ;-) Catherine

Well, it's a very mild garlic, so just use it as you would garlic. Try roasting it as well.

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. I had to laugh at myself. I kept looking at the second comment and it was talking about milk and cream-I was puzzled. Then I saw the bar at the top 'show more comments' and there it was. Thanks again.