Overview of garden 14th week, a day before the winter solstice. 
Green cabbages are growing better on the shadier south end of the garden. The green cabbage at the far end of the garden is doing the best of all. The garlic has gotten a lot bigger over the last week. We had a small harvest of parsley to bake on our fish. 
Mesclun mix is growing in the foreground. We are supposed to have five varieties of salad greens in it. I’ve seen at least two or three kinds. 
From front to back, lettuce, a very few carrots, perhaps a couple of beets, which were badly eaten by something, and a couple of dill plants which will survive if it does not freeze. 
The larger growing radishes did the best. one or two are probably overgrown, but we are keeping them until Christmas. Some may grow when the light changes. We’ll see what happens to the others. The garlic planted on this end of the garden is doing very well. We may expect that, because with the clove, they may not be light dependent, yet, and must not need certain light conditions to be a switch. The whole onion I planted did not grow, even though it does not need the energy. Either the onion got damaged in transit to our house, or it needs certain light conditions. The onion and chive seeds kept popping up and disappearing, even though October was an OK time for planting.
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Garden, 12th Week After Planting
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.