Preserving/saving garlic

Since coming out of hospital, my tastebuds seem to have changed dramatically - my sweet tooth is just not there, or at least not to the same degree (and I had a really sweet tooth!), and I am going a bundle on savoury.

One of the biggest changes is garlic - before, I would only occasionally have garlic, but now I am really loving it; I am using garlic daily, or at least almost daily, so bought quite a large pack of it a few weeks back.

Now, it is getting to that point where it is still good, but you can sense that it is thinking about being past its best, and I still have about six or seven bulbs that I really don't want to waste, so I was wondering how best to preserve it?

I have got pickling vinegar available, although I am not sure that I have jars currently to hand to use - is pickling a good idea? If so, do I need to do anything in particular, or is just a case of peel them and whack them in with some sugar and salt?

 

Thank you both

I'll be honest, I was trying to think of something other that freezing - firstly because space is currently tight in our freezer, so even adding small stuff is likely to see it get freezer burn by being stuck up against the sides. That, and we have a habit of putting stuff like that in the freezer, forgetting about it, before discovering it at freezer gut out time and it then ends up in the bin.

I did consider drying it as I have a dehydrator, but wasn't sure that it would work or even be useful as a dried product, hence my thought about pickling. What about pickling it with chili slices?