It has an extra-deep well that will fit a clove of elephant garlic or several small regular cloves.

Push the smaller cloves of garlic into this cavity.

It consists of placing a small clove of garlic underneath the tongue in hours of darkness when exposed to the carrier - the female anopheles mosquito.

But most softneck garlic has smaller cloves that are more difficult to peel and, many insist, tastes harsher.

Diana Bristol, Lee's wife, was polite about it: because softneck garlic has small cloves and is mild, it's great for pressing and eating raw or sprinkling with basil on goat cheese.

But to farmers who have long scratched their heads wondering why small purple cloves purchased from seed catalogs turned out bulbs that were large and white, it's a long-sought explanation.

First, be separated the bulbs into the small, sickle-shaped cloves.

California garlic has big cloves on the outside and an inner group of small cloves.

There are also much smaller cloves with a hard shell that occur on the inside of the bulb.

Softnecks (derived from A. sativum) produce pale, scalloped bulbs that can contain up to 20 small cloves.