Garlic is Confused

Now, that's a good post title. ;)

Late October, I did my annual spring flowering bulb planting. This year I stuck to mostly daffodils but I decided to go ahead and plant some garlic I had in the pantry. Now, the garlic is from China, I had bought a two pound bag of it at Sam's Club (we use a lot of garlic). I had very little hopes of it growing at all. You see, much of the garlic we buy in the stores has been sprayed with an inhibitor, so that it will not sprout before you use it. But I thought, why not? I've got two pounds of the stuff!

So I finished planting my daffodils (about 80) and then came in and grabbed a head of garlic. I decided to plant them on the west side of the house as I had some gladioli over there that came up even though they are not hardy in our zone. I did this because I believed that the garlic I was planting would not be hardy in our zone.

To my extreme surprise, it has sprouted already! In fact, it is about 8 inches tall. We've had temperatures in the single digits at night and it really doesn't look too bothered by it all. I think it is confused. Maybe something got lost in translation between here and China. ;)