kilikini wrote:
> I always use fresh garlic bulbs. I got some yesterday, I'm making
> stir fry today, I started peeling off the outer layers of the "skin",
> popped off a few cloves and, dang, there's a green stem in there!
> How in the heck can you get a decent head of garlic without the green
> sprouts? I try to get tight bulbs with a smoothly knit skin and it
> seems like more often than not, I still end up with an old head of
> ready-to-sprout garlic.
>
> Anyone have some good selecting advice?
>
> kili

Unless you grow your own garlic there's really no way to guard against
getting the old stuff. Just cut the green stem out; it's harmless. You
*can* take that bulb and plant it

Jill