Garlic shoots

You get a couple of warm spring days and you want to get outside and start planting. But in reality, there is very little to plant this early in New England. Beets, radishes and peas are a crap shoot which is why we plant a little each week in case the ground is too cold for the seeds to germinate.

A few bulbs are up and some shrubs are starting to bud out. But other than that, about the only thing up is the garlic I planted last fall. By June, those sprouts will be eight times their size, send up a seed head (the garlic scape) which we will cut off to make garlic scape pesto. By fall, we'll have several dozen heads of garlic which we will use long before the next harvest is ready!