Fall vegetables

Such a lovely sense of renewal comes with new seeding; fall greens are the promise, hopefully, of seeds sown now.

This weekend, I'm definitely planting lettuce, spinach, arugula, beets, chard, kale and collards in all of the beds not allocated to garlic!

I'll plant garlic from my own harvested heads for the first time this year.  I've put aside the largest heads (and so the largest cloves) to separate and plant out in late September/early October. Yum....

Growing garlic

I plant cloves in the fall, usually in October since I'm in (US) Zone 7.  They usually sprout and grow a bit, overwinter, and then continue with strong spring growth, producing new cloves in late spring and early summer. These plants show robust new growth following warm weather.

I've had a lot of fun growing garlic.  It's remarkably easy and garlic seems to be pretty trouble-free.

I'm trying to resist harvesting too much 'green' garlic this spring.  It's totally delicious -- fresh young shoots are excellent in stir-fries and other dishes.