... or rather my husband's garlic. He had this bright idea last year to grow his own garlic. He couldn't find the types he wanted but went along and planted some ordinary ones, probably from the grocery shop up the road. He planted them in spring. I didn't say a word. Come autumn he had realized he did something wrong, so he read about growing garlic, removed most of the ones that were planted and had grown a little bit, and put new ones down. They are coming along nicely. Before winter #2 - special edition - started about three weeks ago we saw sprouts. They were a lovely shade of green. You'll have to take my word for it because this is what it looked like two days ago, before the rain started. The snow is now more compact. Hope it doesn't turn into ice:
I feel for him. Or like him. I dearly love chives. They do not fair well in the heat of summer here. At some point, onion chives escaped from a garden pot into the lawn. I have a great crop as we speak down in the lawn but have failed to grow them across summer.
I think the garlic will be OK. They're supposed to be hardy little things, but I never thought to grow them. We harvest Allium ursinum, wild garlic, in the woods in spring and dry them or chop them up and freeze them. We have chives. They had to be contained in a big flower pot or we would have chives all over the place. They self-seed if we don't remove the flower heads after blooming. I like to let it bloom since the bees seem to love them. We chop and freeze the chives too. I've never thought about drying them, but now I started thinking about it. Might give it a try come summer.
No good taking a pic of the garlic on the main bed, partridges pruned it all Here's the one that got left in for the second year again
Oh my Droopy...that is an unwelcome amount of snow. Lets hope your long days melt it quickly. Garlic is grown in our area, and it is quite tough. I've never known it to come up and then get such a dump of snow, but fingers crossed it will all be fine. All of the good stuff is tucked away in the dirt
It's a nice-looking garlic, @Zigs, even if it is on its own there. Sorry about the feathered helpers in your garden, but I think I'd take partridges over uncommonly large amounts of snow in March! Thanks for comforting me, @Melody Mc. I'm certain it will be OK since we didn't get the lowest temps until after the first snowfall. The soil shouldn't be frozen, but I'm not digging a hole to check. I've had enough of shovelling snow this season.
Had a look today Droopy, fence is keeping them off and things are growing back Garlic is the one on the South side, others are spring onions which we'll be eating in a week or two
@Zigs do I remember rightly that you had such an affection for garlic that once upon a time you planted 50,000 bulbs? You seem to have cut back some? Trying to skinny up are you?
It is really hot here right now Droopy and I am glad that there is no snow here but I think they'll be ok too.
Ahhh, @Zigs ... The thought of spring greens makes my mouth water. I'll have to find some patience, and maybe some spinach in the shop. We'd dearly love a few degrees of your heat, @KK Ng. People are yearning for spring. But I guess we'll just have to take what we get and say thank you!
That was when I lost the whole lot to Onion White Rot, a fungus disease that affects most Italian food
I bought spinach at the shop yesterday. I made spinach omelette for lunch, and I'm just snacking on the leaves this morning.
