Hi Muffin! Sorry I couldn't help much, but I did try!
Here's a site that seems to offer to find Canadian seed and plant vendors BUT!
https://seeds.ca/diversity/see...
http://www.henryfields.com/pro... "ships in spring"
"We only ship plant and seed items to the 48 contiguous United States."
http://www.ttseeds.com/PHP/hom...
These ARE Canadian, but darned if I could find any garlic of any kind there!
I know NOTHING about canning, but I found these online, with "experts" saying "don't even try".
"CANNING GARLIC
Canning of garlic is not recommended. Garlic is a low-acid vegetable that requires a pressure canner to be properly processed. Garlic loses most of its flavor when heated in this way. For this reason, adequate processing times have not been determined for canning garlic"
http://nchfp.uga.edu/publicati...
And:
"jo ann nelsonOctober 27, 2014 at 1:53 PM
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I love roasted garlic and like you I thought to myself if "they" can pressure can garlic so can I. Like you all I found was you can not can garlic because it is a low acid food. Well so is meat.....and we can that. So this is what I finally settled on.
I pressure cook whole pealed cloves with no added liquid. Once they are golden and soft I mix them into a paste. Add them to small 4oz canning jars and process for other dense low acid foods. The garlic becomes darker with a rich caramelized aroma. Lets just say it makes the best garlic bread, swirled into soups and stews it ads a complex flavor that is deep and rich. The down side is I have to can outdoors because the process makes the whole place smell like one big roasted garlic.
thank you again for your research I too have been looking with very little luck for pressure canning garlic."
http://www.rural-revolution.co...
Good luck!
You probably know that elephant garlic (
Allium ampeloprasum:) is not a "real" garlic, but is related to leeks. You might look up canning baked leeks.
