Has anyone else experienced less that stellar garlic lately?
For the past couple of months I've noticed the cloves being really small and skinny. I usually buy it loose and this was going on in from different sources. The bulbs look normal, but contain many small cloves rather than the nice thumb sized cloves I usually see. You can't tell that before breaking into a bulb though.
Last week I decided to buy the garlic that comes in those mesh bags/tubes, something with a name put on it, and it was the same thing I thought I was peeling off some nice cloves from the bulb last night, only to find that after bashing with my knife, one clove broke down further into three or four smaller ones like what I've been getting. I don't ever recall this rash of sub-par garlic before. It tastes the same, it's just a pain to work with.
For the past couple of months I've noticed the cloves being really small and skinny. I usually buy it loose and this was going on in from different sources. The bulbs look normal, but contain many small cloves rather than the nice thumb sized cloves I usually see. You can't tell that before breaking into a bulb though.
Last week I decided to buy the garlic that comes in those mesh bags/tubes, something with a name put on it, and it was the same thing I thought I was peeling off some nice cloves from the bulb last night, only to find that after bashing with my knife, one clove broke down further into three or four smaller ones like what I've been getting. I don't ever recall this rash of sub-par garlic before. It tastes the same, it's just a pain to work with.