I am so surprised by what I saw this Saturday morning when I work up!

I planted garlic a few weeks ago and sort of forgot about it, telling myself I'd mulch it when it started to grow. Well those things grow fast don't they? Saturday I went outside and the shoots were about 7 inches tall and smelled delicious.

I mulched them a few inched but didn't cover the greenery, was that the right thing to do?

Thank you all for your garlic advice, I can look forward to yanking it up come spring all winter long

Marina-

To be honest, I don't know what I would do in your neck of the woods -- other than freeze to the bone, that's for sure.

My approach would be to just let them go, and if that failed I'd try something else next time.

Yup, that's perfectly normal Marina and what you did with the mulch is fine. Mine are up about an inch or two, but we've had some pretty cold temps here in the last couple weeks.

Which way is up on a garlic head?

I bought some garlic at Thanksgiving to use and it had just sat there until I went to clean up the kitchen yesterday and saw that it started growing decent sized green shoots. Now, I'm looking to plant them but I'm not sure which way to do so, I assume green shoot up and out of the soil? Thanks!

yeah green shoot up

Do you actually break the heads (bulbs?) apart and plant them individually? If I'm starting them inside is my entire house going to stink?

Thanks again!

you break the bulb into the seperate cloves, then plant the cloves.
i dont plant them indoors, they go straight into the ground.
No the whole house wont stink, unless someone stamps on them

Yes and no.

Hi all my garlic has also come up. I'm surprised so many survived. I grew mine from seed so this is year two. This fall I should have bulbs and I'm looking forward to it. My nodding onions are up too. They didn't bloom last year so I'm hoping they do this year. I love garlic.

Thanks for the speedy replies everyone!

it's snowing. I think I'm in trouble.

My Garlic has survivied the ice It is nice and green.

TK the cold is good for them, said to be the reason for forming the cloves.

It's like they're hugging! Sorry, that was bad.

maybe
I will ask them the next time im over the allotment

It's winter right now. When should I plant my first clove? I guess start inside? Or is the cold not going to bother this particular plant?

Garlic is best planted in mid to late fall. You won't get very large heads if you plant in spring.