Here are the onion and garlic I overwintered from last fall.
Hold overs
Wow - that's amazing, especially considering the winter many people have had this year! I know garlic is grown over the winter here, but is that normal for your area?
It's the second winter I have done this and this winter was very hard. Lots of ice and snow but it didn't seem to bother them.
Cajun, Nice work! :)
I'm really starting to see the big picture with wintersownig and overwintering.
I've got some WS jugs out. Would like to do a few more.
I planted my garlic last October and it did great during the wacky winter! I also had 3 onions that appeared in one of my beds last fall, so I left them as well. They're doing splendidly!
Here's my garlic:
Cool! Looks good!
That's about what my garlic looks like, but the silly stuff just will not make bulbs! I dug one up yesterday, with the spade since it had buried itself out the bottom of the bed into the clay, and it was just long, like a leek. Is yours acting like garlic?
They don't bulb up until later. They're not ready to harvest until July or something like that.
Sheesh! I can just see me dynamiting football-sized bundles of garlic out of the baked clay in the middle of the summer. Maybe we'll make that our Fourth of July fireworks display...
Read Frostweed's journal of her garlic. It's very helpful.
http://davesgarden.com/community/blogs/t/frostweed/4151/
Mine is not nearly so big or pretty as yours. I wonder if I need to thin them out. Could be because w have not had any warm weather yet either.
I don't think they're planted too closely at all. It probably has to do with the face that you're 2 zones colder than I am and you're probably still cool. We've had some warm weather the past couple of weeks and they've really taken off. Now if the little ones that I planted at the same time would just get going I'd be a happy camper!
I hope that's it and they do well.
LOL Cajuninky, We have been cleaning out the Veggie Garden and found a few onions from last year. Might have been 5 or 6 about spring onion size. Ric is eating a few for diner tonight. LOL I have found a few other unexpected hold overs in the flower beds, too.
My garlic is doing well also. I planted out the last of October and I think Nov. 1st. Some of it looked bad over the winter and I thought I'd lost some of it but it all of it well now. AND my Eqyptian walking onions came back! I thought for sure that was gone. I took a photo last night. Will try to remember to post tonight when I get home. I'm very excited!
Here are the holdover onions from last year. I think they're either 1015s or Yellow Granex.
Really nice. My onions are growing fast now. I clipped back some of the winter damage on the garlic and it looks better.
Here's some onions and broccoli set out right after the great January freeze.
My onions that I started late from seed and planted in mid to late November are about the same size as the ones set out in January. Next fall, I will start onion seeds lots earlier for plant out in October and do more succession planting of the cole crops. My over wintered garlic is doing fine.
Nice crops everyone. Winter edibles are a good feeling.
I leave the garlic, multiplier onions and walking onions in ground year around with no added mulch in this zone. I intend to leave chives both regular and garlic planted this year and see how they overwinter.
Pod, my garlic chives did great outside this winter. It looked like they died, but they came back with a vengeance! Here they are just peeking out from their winter siesta.
Wups ~ maybe I should continue to contain them... lol
I want to plant some chives. they grew wild at the other house.
Too bad you didn't dig some up or save seed to take along..
Never thought of it at the time. Seems we take a lot for granted and don't look enough to the future.
Pod~This is where they grew last year and hadn't spread much. Of course, I didn't let them flower either, but they did multiply. DH dug them up and placed them in a planter so we could relocate them. They're doing very nicely now!