Two days ago, I did a survey of the garlic patch. I was quite pleased with the results: most of the garlic I had planted last fall came up, and is growing well thanks to the rain. The main concern will be the potential for rot if the downpours continue.

Here’s a photo of my hand-written survey. North is at the bottom of the page.


Legend:

  • (mostly) open circle: successfully growing plant
  • stand-alone filled circle: bamboo separator
  • ‘2’ means that two plants are growing rather than one
  • ‘x’ means that nothing is growing there (either nothing was planted or else the clove has rotted etc.)

Garlic types are annotated,[ref]As one can see from the diagram, I have resolved the ‘Irkutsk’ confusion I alluded to in the fall; given the number of columns all told, it would appear I did in fact only plant 3 cloves of Irkutsk.[/ref] as are the occasional ‘volunteer’ plants.

The dotted circles represent patches in which I planted garlic seeds; the sprouts can be used as a kind of garlic chive.