Am I speaking too soon or is winter really behind us? Is this burst of sustained sun and warmth here to stay, or just a few days – long enough to fool the plants as well as us humans?
Either way, I’m not too worried – I’m just enjoying it while it lasts. And so are the plants, it would seem. That picture at the top of the post is the first buds on our redcurrant bush, which was nothing more than a stick just two months ago.
Perhaps more remarkable, though, is the garlic, which we planted on 28 March. That’s 16 days ago. This is what they looked like back then:
Garlic cloves
They were just cloves back then, but this is what they look like now:
Garlic shoots
The longest of those shoots are 3in tall. I’m worried that they’re bolting. They could be the first of this year’s unsuccessful crops. Let’s hope they’re also the last.
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Those garlic shoots are exactly how they ought to be. Leave them alone, that’s growing you see before you not bolting.
Good luck and patience and you will get a crop there.
That’s encouraging to see; they’ll be fine – garlic really isn’t difficult to grow. <a href="http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/articles/vegetables/garlic/" It's recommended to plant it in late autumn (in the ground) so it can get its roots down before winter. Mine (from Tesco!) has been growing since January, survived three months of freezing weather and is now doing very nicely. How’s that for hardiness? I hope you have an excellent crop.
Lovely! I tried growing garlic in the past, but couldn’t get them to sprout at all–I’m not sure what I did wrong. Perhaps I’ll try again this year.