There Is Garlic!!

Last November I posted an article and a photo about how I was going to try growing garlic in the greenhouse.  The experts say that up here in the north, we are supposed to plant garlic bulbs in the fall, and they will winter over - even in the sub zero cold - and come up in the spring.   Being sort of a skeptic, I didn't have much hope for this, but I planted the garlic anyway.   Just "to prove the experts wrong, ya know" !  After all, we did have several mornings of minus 30 temps, and I figured the garlic would rot by then.   If you recall, here is the photo I posted back on Nov 30:

Well, today I decided to scrape away the straw and see what was underneath.  And lo and behold .........looky-look!!

It works!  You CAN grow garlic up north!  Those experts were right!  Plenty of garlic growing just fine in the greenhouse.   I planted about 40 or 50 garlic bulbs. 

Of course, it's nice and warm in the greenhouse today.  Is it any wonder they are growing?  Take a look at what the thermometer says:

Who needs to go south for the winter?  All I need to do is step into my greenhouse!

Well, so now I can grow my own garlic for cooking and pickling.   That's good, because I have heard that much of the garlic sold in our supermarkets actually comes from CHINA (gasp!).  I don't know about you, but I would prefer not to eat any produce that comes out of China - you just don't know what chemicals they put on the veggies, or (gasp again!) what "fertilizer" is used to grow the crops!  Just sayin'...........