China Rose are all up and going. Have three pots of them. I just do not seem to be able to quit planting so will have 4 more pots done today--two of the Early Italian Purple, one of Music and another of German Extra Hardy. No sign of life in any of the other varieties I planted in the last couple of weeks. Do not expect freezing temperatures until Winter, but who knows, conditions are quite variable here and a morning in the mid to lower 40s sometimes means a warm sunny afternoon. A lot less fog here than my previous locale (which, btw, is the foggiest place in the continental US and the county airport was used to train WW2 pilots who were to land on the continent.) Looking forward to some impressive growth before the worst of the weather sets in.

Well, my plan to plant earlier this year was foiled both by my schedule AND the weather - it has been insanely warm here. None of my deciduous shrubs have even thought about losing their leaves, and a couple of my roses are still putting out blooms. Anyway, I managed to get my beds amended last weekend, so I think I will try to plant this coming weekend barring any further interruptions. Saturday is still calling for a high near 70 but it looks as though that may be our last unseasonable day for a while.

My brother-in-law decided late that he wanted to try garlic so we planted a couple rows of my German Red and few of the Spanish Rojas in one of his beds just this past Sunday the 22nd. We'll see what happens, now it is snowing. Who knows what will happen with the temps after this cold spell moves through.

Last year November was unseasonably warm and my garlic were pretty tall by the time everything froze up. I just buried everything with leaves prior to December's cold. Considering how hardy Garlic is, I am not sure it is even necessary, but I will do it again this year anyways.

Last year I planted my garlics at the beginning of November and without mulch they survived the winter and except for the Xian did more or less ok, but even that did not winterkill. I got no top growth off mine last fall, and for my Music I generally don't, although this year I have some sprouting in just the couple of weeks since I planted it. I intend to mulch more next spring and summer to hold soil moisture than to protect against winterkill. I may put the leaves on this fall yet though and just leave them there depending on how energetic I feel...

Winter drainage will be the most important thing that you have done to prepare his beds. In my opinion winter mulch is optional. Where you are if you have the good clay based prairie soil like we had back in NW Iowa then you need to be real careful of winter drainage. My soil is sandy; so a relatively slight raise to my beds has proven to be enough, just so that snow melt before the ground thaws runs off rather than pools over the cloves.

My feral rocambole cared for itself for about 3 decades though in that heavy black Iowa dirt. That variety was put in early this year. I got to thinking that it dropped its bulbils to the ground in July and early August which seems to me to be a very early planting, but maintained the stock with almost certainly some late season regrowth, perhaps quite a bit. I wasn't ready until late in September though; so September 29 was the earliest I could manage. Every clove of all the varieties planted then is up except those few that did not escape the tree rats. I am halfway tempted to buy some bulbils next summer and see if a mid-late summer planting does them any good, hopefully to jump a season of development ... ?

Just got my 2018 crop in this week here in the Blue Ridge mountains of southwestern Virginia. Fertilized with blood meal and dehydrated chicken manure, watered, and mulched with about 3" of grass clippings:

Music (270)

Russian Red (95)

Estonian Red (85)

Appalachian Red (10)

Unknown (95)

The unknown was purchased as Appalachian Red but the seller admitted he acquired the seed from an old Italian guy who said it was a family garlic. He was then told latter by some "expert" that it was Appalachian Red based on sight. Not good enough for me so I will not represent or propagate it as such. In and case it is a large and handsome garlic that will make good table stock. The other 10 Appalachian Red are genuine.

My 2017 crop was my best ever in over 40 years of growing garlic, with 475 bulbs averaging 2.5" with the largest at 3.3".

Tom

You folks have been very busy. I waited until this weekend. I just planted my first garlic bed, it is a 10 rows of about 75 cloves each. So a total of about 750 of various varieties. Half of them are small and I expect about 1/4 to 1/3 to grow into rounds. I plan to finish my 2nd bed tomorrow. Then I'll plant my 3rd and 4th beds next weekend. Depends on how much seed garlic I have, I may plant 5th and 6th bed.

Bed 1: misc small cloves, most German Red

Bed 2: Music, Spanish Roja, German White

Bed 3: Softneck, German Red large bulbils

Bed 4: All full size German Red

Bed 5: Misc mid-size cloves

Bed 6: Small cloves and bulbils

Depending on the season, I expect to have about 800 to 1,000 regular sized bulbs and about 2,000 or so small heads and rounds. I got a lot of small heads this year and I'm going to plant all of them. Hard to use them.

Here is today's planting of Bed #1:

I don't have a lot of garden space and therefore, there is a bit of a battle with my better half for space to dedicate to garlic. She is the controller in general of garden space, therefore I formally requested 2 garden plots that are 8 feet by 4 feet. The General considered my request and reduced my allotment to 1 plot 8 X 4 and a 2 feet X 12 inch container. I saved my seed garlic from last year's harvest; so, I planted German White, Romanian Red, Silver Skin and Bavarian. I also saved some rounds of Romanian Red and plated those in the container. I am following Old Dutch's advice and not mulching. Or maybe I will mulch later on. I had prepared my soil by adding 1/2 barrel of compost and tilling it into the soil. I used a hoe to make row mounds and used a broom handle to make 6 inch holes 4 to 6 inches apart. I dropped the cloves in, pointed end up and covered them up. can't wait to see them sprout.

Charlie - sounds like a good compromise. You should still be able to get about 100 cloves in a 4x8 bed with 6" spacing and even more with 4" spacing. If you planted them 6" deep is may take awhile for them to sprout. I try to plant mine with the clove tip about 2" deep and most sprout in 10-20 days.

LoneJack - I will post a picture when they sprout. I really like growing garlic. I don't know why my spouse doesn't like it. Could it be that garlic keeps vampires away and she resents the implication? Ever since I started growing garlic, I have not been attacked by a vampire; so it obviously works.

I plant my garlic cloves about a finger deep. Generally I simply push the clove down that far in soil that I have loosened up a lot and then I water them in. Potato onions just below the surface and walking onions however I feel like, those last it makes them no difference....

Tell the better half that garlic very often also deters rodent predation on such niceties as tomatoes, peppers and squashes. (At least that is my impression.)

In my garden, garlic is almost the only thing that the rabbits do not eat. I gave up my garden this summer. We have our deer fence, but we losing battles with rabbit and groundhogs.

I have a bit of a problem with cottontails eating young fruittree bark in the winter; otherwise my pest problem is gray squirrels. Thank heavens I have no groundhogs!

I find the squirrels don't mess much with peppers especially hot ones, nor with radishes, although 'something' nibbles on young broccoli plants and tulip blossoms... They haven't yet figured out how to dig into my sweet potatoes and don't see to be all that interested in cabbages, either standards, Chinese or Napa either for that matter. Maybe they aren't succulent enough or something.

I have switched to bush type squash (butterbush) which I intend to surround with chicken wire next summer and my tomatoes also get a chickenwire enclosure around each one. I get a pile of early tomatoes off Burpee's 4th of July until they out grow the chicken wire collar. Great little two bite snacks for as long as they escape the tree rats, and the mature green ones ripen very well on the window sill.

Were I in the country I would be treating the rodents and the rabbits to the 22/100s solution, and probably eating some of what I culled that way as well.

What worked especially well for my folks back on the farm was a free ranging farm dog. Once they brought the sweet corn up onto the home place, that even kept the raccoons out of that. Something like a border collie type that has some shelter from the worst weather. We were in zone 4 and my parents had a long standing prejudice against cats or dogs in the house; so they had to survive outside or at least bed down in the barns or haymows for the cats. Now that doesn't work out so well for remote gardens but can be especially valuable for close in kitchen gardens.

Garlic is in! I planted 56 cloves in one bed and 45 in another - 28 Music, 45 German Giant and 28 Russian Red. I meant to order a new variety to try and replace the Russian, but I never got around to it so I'm crossing my fingers that the Russian will do better this year. If not, it's out for next year!

Good luck with your Russians...

Sometimes a variety will take a couple of years to settle in to your area and your style. I think we give up on some of those types perhaps a little early in a lot of cases.

Get another bed planted. Two more to go. May take a day off from work....

Hey guys! I got my garlic planted last weekend, mid November as I thought, I think the timing was perfect. After my experience this year, I only planted one bed, about 50 plants, I think it was all Russian Red, they did the best. I hope everyone has a great year!

I was going to plant more today. But it rained. Hope for better day tomorrow.

I'll leave my last planting next spring. They are just tiny cloves that probably won't make it over the winter. I want them to grow into rounds anyhow.

Weather is still mild so far.

Lucky you! 17 degrees here in Minneapolis right now. Supposed to get back up all the way into the 40's tomorrow though. Still not quite ready to chance walking on water just yet. This is Darwin Award season for the earliest ice fishermen!

I'm a bit of a procrastinator, finally got my garlic in. Small bed of music, elephant, and inchelium red. 2018 will be third year growing inchelium and hopefully it will be a little bigger. So far it's been a disappointment in North Jersey.

Is next week too late for shallots? Should I wait until spring?

IME shallots bolt if planted in the fall. I would wait for spring.

The weather has very mild in this part of the country. I just finished probably the last batch of garlic planting. Still have about 40 heads of good sized garlic to consume. I plan to plant the left-over tiny cloves in early spring to grow rounds. Do not want to just throw them away. They are not much bigger than large bulbils.

Now look forward to spring.

This will be my second year of growing garlic. I got my starting bulbs (5 hard-neck varieties) last fall from a garden-web training partner. Most of the cloves were large and the resulting harvested bulbs were mostly fairly large. This year I saved some of my harvest and planted again. I also planted some bulbils last year in a container and harvested them and replanted the rounds in the same container. In June I should know if the bulbs will be larger this year and if the rounds produce decent bulbs.

It's that time of year again. Time for the Darwin Awards to certain ice fishermen.

The ice was thin, that he knew.

He still went out and he fell through.

He went down and down and down,

Improved the gene pool all around.

haha Dutch! I'm always amazed what some people will do on the snow machines driving over pockets of open water. Not me!

My garlic has broken thru the 4" of leaf mulch I put on it a couple weeks ago. The top growth will slow or stop this week when we start consistently getting down into the 20s at night.

Never had one of those motorized sleds, but I have heard of two really stupid things that happen when drunks ride them especially at night.

The open water jump on lakes only partially frozen over is one of them.

The other is not ducking far enough when going under barbed wire fences and getting clothes-lined.

I haven't been ice fishing for a couple of years now, but hope to get out this winter for a couple of times at least. This coming week we are not supposed to get out of the 20's for daily highs; so we should be making ice for sure. Today's day long drizzle is turning to snow. Luckily I don't have work tomorrow; so I can probably wait out the resulting ice before doing much driving.

Its been a strange year for my garlic, which is the reason I'm only now posting an update.

Planting my garlic collection on a friend's property turned out to be a poor decision. Massive swarms of mosquitoes there made weeding impossible until mid-summer, stunting what should have been a good crop. The artichoke varieties were least affected, but all of the hard necks were all severely under-sized.

Then late in the season, those long-time friends unexpectedly divorced, and the collection was suddenly "homeless". :-(

The only option available was to move the garlic temporarily to my home garden - which is normally dedicated to trials & seed crops. There just isn't enough space to add such a large planting (still working on converting more lawn). There were 34 varieties & 3 new acquisitions, with only space for 20 - so 17 varieties didn't make the cut. I'd planned to reduce the collection in a few years, but would like to have given the "losers" a better chance to prove their merits... sometimes the culinary quality of a vegetable compensates for its low yield.

The garlic was just planted yesterday December 3rd - in soft ground??? :-0 The latest I've ever planted previously was in mid-November, and I had to drill into frozen ground then. It will be interesting to see how the garlic responds to such a late start. Depending upon the severity of the winter, this may be a "strongest survive" scenario.

Planted 10 each:

• Bogatyr (mps)
• Broadleaf Czech (art)
• Carpati (art)
• Choparsky (mps)
• Dubna Standard (mps)
• Estonian Red (mps)
• Georgian Fire (porc)
• German Extra Hardy (variety listed as porcelain, but there must have been a mix-up; this stock is a very large rocambole)
• German White (porc)
• Kettle River Giant (art)
• Krasnodar Red (mps)
• Old Homestead (roc)
• Polish Jenn (porc)
• Purple Cauldron (art)
• P-VT (art)
• Ron's Single Center (art)
• Sicilian Gold (art)
• Special Idaho (roc)
• Vic's (roc)
• White Seedless (art)

The losers (surviving stock to be dehydrated):

• Bulgarian Hanuan (art)
• Chinese Rocambole (roc)
• Chrysalis Purple (roc, winter loss total)
• German Red (roc)
• Jurjevich (roc)
• Korean Mad Dog (art)
• L.K. Mann's C 751 (roc)
• Martin's (would have liked to keep this, was planted late, winter kill was total)
• Mchadidzhvari (art)
• Pearly Red (roc)
• Pskem (mps)
• Russian Red (roc)
• Samarkand (a.k.a. Persian Star, ps)
• Transylvanian (art)
• Uzbek Turban (turb, total loss)
• Wisconsin German Red (was planted late, winter kill was total)
• Xi'an (turb, total loss)

types: art = artichoke, roc = rocambole, porc = porcelain, mps = marbled purple stripe

This is at best a temporary arrangement... while I am trying to preserve as much garlic as possible, there is only enough room in my home gardens to rotate a planting of this size twice, and I that space is already dedicated to higher-yielding crops. So I'll either be searching for another location next year, or bringing in enough soil to my rural garden reduce to raise it from its present (low laying) level.

That stinks Zeedman! One year your garlic gets flooded out and then the Attack of the killer Mosquitoes the next. Looks like you dropped some pretty nice varieties. I gave up on Martin's last year and Persian Star was dropped this year along with Metechi, Music, and Yugoslavian. I think the Martin's seed stock I got from Fillaree Farms was not up to par and it didn't do well at all. I had planned to order Martin's and a few others from Wegrowgarlic but that was the year they shut down so I went to plan B.

Good luck finding a spot to plant next year! If you ever want to add Purple Glazer or Russian Red back to your collection let me know and I will leave some scapes on a couple to get some bulbils.

Thanks LoneJack. I'll find a good spot next year... would have found another site this year if I had known what was coming. It really has been a plague of misfortune for my garlic in recent years, starting with the aster yellows outbreak several years ago which wiped out my entire collection (and that of Wegrowgarlic as well). Up until that point, I had considered garlic to be a trouble-free crop, and took a good harvest for granted. Now it demands more special handling than anything else I grow, especially due to the fact that all of my present garden plots are on low ground, and recent years have been much wetter than normal. My love of home-grown garlic may force me to alter my entire garden strategy, which while troublesome in the short term, may benefit my entire garden in the long term.

Wish I could have found room for a couple more, Jurjevich and Mchadidzhvari are both good varieties.

Persian Star (a.k.a. Samarkand, its original name) has always been one of my staples; not the largest bulbs or largest cloves, but very reliable. If I were growing garlic for subsistence, I would choose it over the varieties which have larger (but fewer) cloves... you get to eat a larger percentage of the harvest.

Thanks for the offer of Russian Red, but it proved too trouble-prone for me; excessive winter kill one year, near total loss to disease the next. Had the same issues with Uzbek & Xi'an.

Speaking of bulbils... if there was an upside to being kept out of the garlic patch, it was that all of the rocamboles (and some of the purple stripes) produced large bulbils. Don't know if it is too late to plant them, but let me know if you might be interested. I'll go back to my previous post to add the sub-class for each variety.

Temps dropping rapidly, looks like winter has finally arrived. I had hoped to mulch the garlic with leaves today, but the wind is gusting 40-50 MPH, so it would be a losing battle.

zeedman, wish you all the best for planting so late.

So it was aster yellows that did in WeGrowGarlic! Too bad. Way too bad.

When I did that last year (and that was still in November) here in Minneapolis, the only garlics I had that didn't mope too bad were Music and Siberian. I totally lost the turban (Xian) and the rest were quite undersized even when the scapes had been removed, except the Music and Siberian and those weren't as big as I had hoped. I went the other direction this fall on purpose planting in late September (all but Music) and early October for Music and multiplier onions. I also gave them 8x8 spacing and very rich beds. I expect you will lose some and have some perform ok if not very big. It really looks to me like some varieties almost demand a growing period in the fall, while others not so much.

If you want bulbils from VietNamese Red or Siberian let me know early and I will leave some scapes develop. I got my VNRed from Jungs right there in Wisconsin not too far from you IIRC. They sent a huge measure, more bulbs than I expected by quite a bit.

Zeedman - I had almost forgotten about the Aster Yellows (in 2012?) outbreak. I didn't realize that it made it over to your area of WI and caused the demise of WGG. Maybe I just forgot which seems to be happening more and more often lately!

Thanks for the bulbil offer. Can't take you up on it this year without taking something out of my plans for 2018. I would like to try Georgian Fire sometime but since it is a porcelain I'm sure I don't have the patients to grow it out from bulbils. Interesting that you list Mchadidzhvari as an Artichoke. I always thought it was the original name for Purple Glazer but looking at the Heirloom garlic archive it lists Purple Glazer as 'Mchadidzhvari #1'. I guess they both came from the same town in the Republic of Georgia.

"...I totally lost the turban (Xian)..."

OldDutch, that is interesting. I completely lost both of my turban varieties last year as well. I suspect they fell victim to the abnormally wet weather. A pity, I really liked them, and was actually thinking about adding a few more of that type... but I've given up on turbans now.

Yes, LoneJack, the aster yellows was in 2012. There is a really good thread about that in the archived pages of this forum. I had been growing 13 varieties at that point, all but one of which (Chrysalis Purple) were doing well. It has taken me several years to re-acquire those varieties; the last was Carpati, which I found this year. Those varieties were chosen when I was allowed to visit SSE's drying shed many years back, and was permitted to take a few samples of the largest bulbs. My present collection was based upon... observations in Jeff's Heirloom Garlic Archive (which recently moved to a new web address).

I've gone back to the Archive myself, to reconsider the list of discontinued varieties. I have quite a few large pots (which I use for preservation work), and could plant a couple varieties there. A past attempt to grow garlic in pots was a failure... I think they get too cold if exposed to winter winds. Stored in my unheated garage over winter, the pots might yield better results.

Z, all I got from Xian last year were tiny little bulblets and the tops went over real early. I am trying it one more time from new seed stock. The previous year it did ok, nothing spectacular, but good enough to try again. It gets one more test run. Vietnamese Red was another under performer, although a bit larger; so I have replacement seed stock for that also.

I went through my storage and most look pretty good yet. No sprouting and very little apparent drying out.

I'd plant the bulbils or tiny cloves in the spring. They can easily get lost in the cold winter. Of course you'll need to chill them in the frige. I'll have some spring planting this year. They will mostly develop into rounds, which are preferred to tiny cloves again. They are just too tiny to consume. Or have to throw them away.

The feral (I think its a rocambole) I collected started out as tiny cloves and it produces pea sized bulbils, both of which have wintered real well for me. That is in zone 4 here in Minneapolis, and it did that on its own in zone 4 in NW Iowa for close to 30 years as a feral setting bulbils on stalks that went over in late summer, and that was in heavy soil to boot. The smaller bulbils like on the porcelains almost certainly need more care, but the little cloves probably don't. Just my 2 cents. If I had porcelain bulbils I would probably refrigerate them from October to January and then plant them under lights like onion seed to transplant out as early as possible.

About gardening there are almost always more than one way to do things - part of the fun of it. You shoulda heard my mother and her brother argue about how to raise sweet potatoes! Both of them got good return most years anyway, and they were both in zone 4.

Yes I hear ya. I planted some Porcelain bulbils two seasons ago. They came up well the first year. But they were too small and I did not bother to harvest them. So they stayed in the ground the following winter. Some of them came out again the 2nd season, but most did not make it. They are not strong.

One of the main reason is the weed problem. It is so hard to weed for the tiny bulbil plants. So I gave up. This may be the main reason those bulbils got lost and gone.

This year, I just dug up this garden area and planted regular Roc garlic cloves. The bulbils are much easier to manage than the Procelain. I may try then again next year in pots....

I have direct sown onion seed, and those are a real bear to weed too, a whole lot like weeding porcelain bulbils.

Another mild winter...

The fall growth on my garlic should finally stall out tomorrow with the arrival of consistently sub freezing temperatures. With lows in the teens, 20s or below the ground should soon be frozen solid. Again this year I have top growth 3-4" above the 4" of leaf mulch. Last year the top growth resumed by mid February so it didn't stay dormant for long. No snow here yet but the extended forecast is showing a few chances next week.

Lucky you!

We got snow and we just made it above freezing yesterday by a couple of degrees for the first time in a while. By Christmas night we are supposed to be below zero. I do have some tips of garlic showing through the snow (there's only a couple of inches yet) and the elephants are still up to about 6 or 8 inches and green. They sprouted last August; so I hope they will be alright, but we shall see.

Some of my coworkers are out on the ice and taking some fish. I hope to join them in something like a couple of weeks. There are whole months here in Minnesota where everybody can walk on water. These old bones however only go out if the wind aint blowing and the temps are at least 20 above or more (and I like at least 8 to 10 inches of ice - I aint never gone through and I don't intend to start now!) Besides I have to walk on the lakes I fish. No motors or power sleds allowed.

FWIW

I went back into my archives and found this snow picture from March 2016. Every variety came through with a decent harvest, including all three Turbans, except the softneck on the right in the very front.

Pretty nice growth already for as early as that. The tulips did fine, too. Some snow and late season cold really does very little damage to plants as hardy as these. (I got a real nice increase of blooming size tulip bulbs, too.)

The tulips came up again in the Fall???

You've posted before about your inter-planting tulips & garlic, its nice to see what that looks like. Must be really interesting when the tulips bloom.

I wish I could follow your example, but tulips in my yard are just deer salad... and I don't want them stomping on the garlic as they dine. Still looking for a new site to plant my garlic in the Fall of 2018. If I'm able to fence in my garlic, maybe I'll be able to put in some tulips... had to give them up when I moved to the deer super-highway I live in now. There was a tulip bed on the side of my house when I moved in, but after being mowed to the ground every Spring, they gradually stopped coming up.

That image is from March 2016 just to show that a snow cover and changeable weather do not bother most garlics or the tulips either.

I dig the tulips when the foliage just barely starts to yellow usually in late May or very early June and cure them just like I cure the garlic. And then interplant with the garlics the following autumn. Curing tulip bulbs is very easy provided you dig them leaving the foliage attached and let it dry off naturally on the curing racks. You simply have to plant them deeper than your garlics and be careful digging not to disturb the nearby garlic stands. I have never had any autumn emergence with my tulips.

I normally get 2X to 4X increase in blooming size tulip bulbs, and I only plant back about the biggest 50 of the hundred best, which of course go into refertilized beds, and thus never run out. I only use one variety, Red Apeldoorns, so I don't have to worry about trying to keeping a mixture, since all the cured bulbs look the same.

I decided to try using tulips as boundary markers between garlic varieties some years back. IIRC I started out with a bag of 25 and am still using the offspring of that initial set, and get an abundant return nearly every time. I sorta prefer red tulips, not that I have a problem with any color tulip as long as it is red.

I do have a muncher problem, but oddly enough that seems to only involve opened, fully colored flowers for some reason, and its not all of them. The local squirrels love my red tomatoes, but I suspect the tulip munchers are cottontails. Since the old widows died off around here, nobody feeds the stray cats who used to get all the new bunnies. Now we have a cottontail problem that we didn't used to have.

I live in the heart of south Minneapolis about 30 blocks south and 10 east of 0 0. So I have little to fear from the deer.

Despite the lateness of planting and the smaller size of containers my garlic appears to be growing just fine. The early soft necks were up immediately as is their usual and now that we have had adequate chilling and then some, the Porcelains and Korean Red are beginning to poke their noses out of the soil as well. Had some heavy pruning of the foliage by the local deer which are viewed as feral pets here and had to make an emergency visit to the hardware store for some 2X4 fencing to protect them from the predators. Basically formed a canoe shaped cage to cover and enclose them and they are safe for now. Expect that the foliage will be eaten again once it is tall enough to poke through the fencing, but I am hopeful that there will be some garlic to harvest eventually. Don't know where I might be at that time as my housing is not secure at the moment.

Strange, that deer would be eating the leaves... garlic is mentioned often when people ask for "deer proof" vegetables. They have yet to disturb mine, other than to stomp on it while investigating the greenery. Doubly strange, Kristencarol, since I believe there is still plenty of other green growth to choose from in your climate.

You are not familiar with this area, I'm guessing. No soil just sand and also lots of pine trees in swampy forests and shade. Grass is very patchy and of course goes dormant when the temperature dips into the 30s and is often not out of the 40s at this time of the year--anything BUT ample grass. In other words not Seattle here.

We've had some warm days lately and things are starting to green up! I went out today for some yard clean-up and found that my garlic has broken ground! Lots of fresh shoots. I pulled some of the leaf mulch back and I'll hit it with some urea next weekend. The miracle of spring!

Same here. Look forward to the new season. Still want to plant some of my tiny cloves for rounds.