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June 03, 2008

The garlic are through!

I noticed the other day that about half of my garlics have sprouted through the surface of the soil.

I love spotting my vegetable plants breaking through the soil. Firstly because it means the process has been successful (well that far anyway lol). But mostly because, if it's the first time I've sown that sort of seed I have no idea what I am going to be finding. The new seedling stage is quite unique and the sight of the little strange shaped leaves or tightly wrapped leaves that gradually unfold are quite delightful. When I spotted my garlics coming up they reminded me of when my corns sprouted - a robust, tight little wrapping of leaves that then quite quickly grow longer and then unfold.

Equally fascinating were my broccoli's when they first came through last year to see the wee heart shaped leaves which only took a "true to shape" look when the second set came through.

Who would have thought a few years back I'd find all this so...thrilling! LOL.

4 comments:

Frances said...

My garlic has also just sprouted! I'm so excited as I've never tried growing garlic before, but I had an old bulb in the kitchen that was nearly sprouting in the cupboard so went and planted all the bulbs.

Can't wait to see what happens now, LOL!

Gypsy said...

Hooray that is so exciting! I must plant some garlic - my other little plants are causing me so much excitement at the moment. I bet it will be the nicest garlic you've ever had. Hope the pea soup went well - we have tonnes in our freezer now for cold days, yummy!

Nik said...

Good for you cesca, it's all about experimenting. This is my first garlic planted this way too (I bought some already sprouted plants last year that sadly did nothing).
Gypsy - yes, go and put some garlic cloves in the ground. I'm going to do some more on the shortest day too, so plenty of time to prepare! Yes, the soup went down well!

Sandra said...

Tis lovely aye? Sometimes I'm better at noticing the new stuff than others. There was the time when I 'weeded' ready to plant and then noticed that what I had just weeded looked exactly the same as the punnet I was about to plant! Cornsalad on that occasion, which still looks like a weed and hasn't grown enough to eat more than two leaves. And is unappealing. My garlic is partly up as well. Quite precious at this slowed down growing time of year.