I have a row of garlic as well. It's my first time growing garlic. Do you need to loosen the ground around it?
I also have artichokes, celery, cauliflower, rutabagas, turnips, spinach mustard and 3 kinds of lettuce planted and have seeds for brussel sprouts and several kinds of tomatoes just waiting for the right time.

Oops I forgot jalapeno and tabasco peppers and just thought you're probably hoeing the chickweed and hensbit!

taz, how did you guess! I have never seen henbit this bad!At least I saw some honeybees on it today.

In fact, that is why I hoed the row of garlic to get the henbit and some other tiny little blue flowered weed out of the row. If the soil is compacted it wouldn't hurt to hoe it.
Mine is looking pretty good.

That is all I have in. It is way too early for me. The last of March will be my earliest seeding and planting.

Today I tilled the east end of the kitchen garden.
I don't plant warm season things until mid-May.

It was another beautiful day.

You can see the garlic row off to the left of the hoop frame.

I've got it bad too. If it weren't for the henbit and chickweed there wouldn't be anything green in my yard. lol!

Check out this page I just found on chickweed uses.

That brown dirt looks good to me. Where are your rocks? I have many onion sets and I have two bunches of onion plants which I prefer. I love green onions. I hope it isn't too early for those.

Helen, in all fairness to the rocks situation, this was the previous owners garden for many years. She had removed the significant ones....but she was a chemical fanatic and this soil would crack open when it was hot and dry. It has taken me since 1992 of mulching, tilling organics to get it in the shape it is in today.l

However, when I did the new garden last year I will just thrilled at how few rock
we turned up.

I plant as if we lived in the north part of the state so it is a little early for me to plant anything.

Taz, it sounds like it would good for many of my ills! I looked for henbit....it was missing in action.

So far, I haven't seen any chickweed here.

Glenda had I known about chickweed in previous years I would have eaten lots of it if I like the taste. I pulled and threw out many 5 gallon buckets full last year. I'll be trying it soon enough and let you know what I think. I've got several patches of both.

Here's my little row of garlic and some planted in a container.

Who knew? (about henbit) lol I've cussed it for years, but have a lot more respect for it now. That article is now on my favorites. I've been pulling it, cutting it up and putting in the compost bin. Perhaps I'll make a tea or infusion tomorrow when I don't have to go out in public. It might put me in an embarrasing situation, with all those uses! I could use feeling like a New Woman.
Sunny

Sunny it's chickweed that's edible. It's the vine like stuff growing next to the henbit in my pics. I haven't found anything about henbit being edible so I wouldn't try it.

I tried it raw and didn't like it. I'll have to read the new woman information maybe a little oil and vinegar would help.

Henbit?

Well, I think you saved me, Helen. Back to the drawing board for me -- but I'm still open to the New Woman-ness, if anyone has any suggestions. Oil and vinegar would help anything.

You all go first and let me know, okay? lol
Sunny

I love the pics. It's always so interesting to see other's gardens.

I too was wondering about the rocks, lol.

I too am overgrown with henbit this year, and honestly, was blaming myself for not getting it under control last year. I guess I'm glad to know it's not just me.

I've been doing some clean-up of last year's crabgrass, and we put down some pre-emergent for it this week. I'm determined to win that war this year.

I'm not doing an official veggie garden this year but will be putting in a few veggies amongst my flowers.

I'm also pleased to say I finally started a gardening journal so I can keep track of blooming times, weeds, fertilizers, plantings, etc. I'm pretty pleased with myself.