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Seedy Saturday - Garlic and Potatoes

Yes, I know it doesn't look like much now. But if you look closely, you will see a few of these starting to poke their heads through the grass clippings I am using for mulch.  My elephant garlic is shooting up. When I planted them I gave the area a good feeding of fertilizer and started putting my grass clippings over them. One, to mulch so as to conserve water and to give them a bit of protection against upcoming cold weather.  I am so excited because, living up to their name elephant, the stalks are much bigger than regular garlic. I still need to plant 3 cloves of a different variety of hardneck garlic in the bed which I received a couple of days ago at a plant/seed swap.  Just across from them is my little potato patch. This is my 'experimental' patch - which needs some mulch or grass clippings dumped on it. I pulled out some potatoes from my early summer harvest and stuck them in the ground to see what would happen. I have never grown potatoes anytime other than very...

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