Frank wrote:
Last October mentioned garlic wife had planted wondering if it would
survive the winter cold and snow. Here it is the end of May and I
noticed wilting of a plant in a pot on the deck and I just pulled a
mature bulb from the pot.

that's pretty early!

i won't think about harvesting bulbs until the scapes start
showing up and a few of the lower leaves start to turn color.

in the meantime i have green garlic i can dig up and use.

i saw some pictures of someone's harvest of garlic from
the south that they took up a few weeks ago. to me it looked
too early and small. i hated to say anything about that so
i didn't.

as a coincidence today i used up some of the garlic i had
put into storage from last year. it was just barely accept-
able for what i was doing with it, but if i'd wanted to dry
it or grind it and freeze it i could have had a small container
of garlic from the four bulbs i had left. instead i chopped
it all up (after using what i needed) and fed it to the worms.


songbird