The biggest radish on DEC 5, 2013   Garden overview   Garlic, DEC 5, 2013

This biggest radish is a good size.  We may get more next week.  Some may begin growing better when the days begin to lengthen.  Only two and a half weeks until then.

The garden overview shows the radish patch to the left, and parsley and cilantro to the right.  The scattered grey-green plants are the cabbage plants that I bought already started.  I planted eight of these in different parts of the garden to see where they grow best.  (Since most of the garden did not do well.)

The garlic is from one head that we bought at the grocery store, and separated into cloves.  I planted about 6 cloves at each end of the garden.  It  is growing well everywhere so far.

Though I planted a whole onion at the same time, nothing is growing from it, at least not yet.  I am going to see if onions, from seed or planted whole, and chive from seed begin to grow better later.

It is a little surprising to me that garlic grows so much better than any of my onion types so far.  Two years ago I got good chives from plants, and onions did begin to take hold in the late winter.  I would have gotten a couple of scallions if that garden had not been full of lead.