Yes! That’s a typical PNW problem isn’t it? I get so frustrated trying to grow carrots for that reason. By the time they come up I can’t find them in the weeds!RMaybe I'll post a photo later, but the bed where I planted garlic and laid straw has sprouted all over the place. I planted in neat rows, but these little shoots are just everywhere. I think the straw sprouted and I'm growing grass. That is how things go here. I can grow stuff, just not what I want to grow.
Pluck off a leaf and smell or taste it. I think it's garlic.Maybe I'll post a photo later, but the bed where I planted garlic and laid straw has sprouted all over the place. I planted in neat rows, but these little shoots are just everywhere. I think the straw sprouted and I'm growing grass. That is how things go here. I can grow stuff, just not what I want to grow.
Shouldn't there be a single shoot coming up from each clove? I have three distinct rows planted and not as many as the amount of "grass" that's coming up. It's all over the place, not in rows at all. Does garlic spread like that? I've never grown it before. Maybe I'll pull a piece off and smell it or taste it. That's a good idea. Or even better, I'll ask DH to do it.
My carrots are still alive. I just pulled up three of them to have with supper. They're about the size of my little finger.
Mine first came up as single shoots, which soon opened up into a few leaves. But yours could be seeds coming up from the straw I guess. My patch has 60 cloves growing. And no, they didn't spread at all. There's a single plant for each clove.Shouldn't there be a single shoot coming up from each clove? I have three distinct rows planted and not as many as the amount of "grass" that's coming up. It's all over the place, not in rows at all. Does garlic spread like that? I've never grown it before. Maybe I'll pull a piece off and smell it or taste it. That's a good idea. Or even better, I'll ask DH to do it.
