Spring is Coming

We had a very different winter this year on the west coast with a huge snow fall in late December and virtually no precipitation in January and February.  It was quite cold and our fields were frozen hard and covered with snow for six weeks.

But garlic is a feisty plant and after a couple of exceptionally mild weeks at the end of February, our garlic has sprouted and is already about 2 inches high.  It is truly remarkable in this regard, as some of the new garlic shoots were actually pushing their way through the snow.

Our Russian Reds - Darcy's Russian Red and our Gabriola varieties seemed to be the earliest, followed by Persian Red,  Chesnok and Leningrad.