It will turn blue or green and look awful. It needs to be totally dried before canning.

Thank you, Linda Lou - I was pretty sure the colour would change, was more concerned with safety issues. The problem was a too-late harvest and some of the wrappers are compromised. I guess those would be better dealt with by drying...

You can pickle it provided the brine is over 85% vinegar. The blue color disappears after a few months. I like to add a dash of tumeric to give the brine and cloves a yellow color. Adding dill weed or red pepper flakes also make a nice taste. You eat them like 'peanuts', and they become very mild. I grow Musik variety now. They have a single layer of large cloves, with a hard necked center. These hard stalks (scapes) are supposed to be romoved soon after they appear, you harvest when the green tops die out. I place mine on a big screen frame inside my greenhouse with a big fan blowing from underneath for about 2-3 weeks. They keep well and are one of the most hardest garlic types for the colder northeast. They usually would get planted about now, through October, and harvested at about mid June the following year.

Ken, so glad to see you back online - we were worried.
Thank you so much for replying to my question in spite of not feeling at all well. I really appreciate the time you take to pass on your knowledge and experience, giving such detailed and helpful suggestions.
We too grow the Music variety, approximately one third of our yield. It does well up here, and we usually plant around mid October. It should have been harvested at the end of July, but weather and "life" intervened, therefore the delay. We do enjoy the scapes when they appear - one of these years I plan to pickle them...

As an aside, have the doctors cultured for molds and fungus as well as bacteria in your lungs? They can be difficult to identify, but are often the source of big problems. Keep well, our thoughts are with you.

Yes, I do pickled scapes too. The doctors have taken 100 blood samples and the biopsy stuff has all be cultured for any fungal issues. Now the Wellcare will not even fill a new prescription, as its in that 'not in formulary' catagory. I figured that out soon after the nurses said they had never seen this liquid I must swallow every day. At present, its the insurance companies that are controlling what I can take and what I cant take. Next they will chnage hospital coverages to offer less coverage or none for some common tests.

Add a bit of bone meal before planting the cloves. I also use Dixondale fertilzer which is also for onions. My garlic bulbs were larger than any store bought.