Thanks Sandy. I will keep on hoping for the garlic until I have to dig up that part of the raised bed for something else. Not likely too soon as it is also frozen down just a few inches. I believe that having little snow and its early disappearance is contributing to my feelings of frustration. I looked at my records and they don't show things sprouting any earlier than they are now in prior years. I am all but hopping up and down and yelling at the ground to 'go forth and multiply'. Perhaps it is best I don't or the neighbors would be confirmed in their suspicion that they have a crazy gardener on their hands. No one gardens in my neighborhood, difficult as that is to believe.
It rained last night and everything looks so clean --- and DEAD!
Sorry.
On a higher note my Aruncus is growing. I was looking through a report on when things started growth last year and noted this one was growing by now, so magnifying glass in hand I went to look and indeed it is sending up sprouts. It is so difficult to see small growth when you wear bifocals. It is certainly too wet to crawl through the garden with a jeweler's loup to identify growth. Hmmmm. Rubber knee pads perhaps.
