Really hard to tell what rabbits eat in my gardens, even though the rabbits are always around all year long, just seem like small nibblers. Interyard rabbit roadway is used all of the time.

Now the groundhogs are terrors, smart but with poor eyesight, they destroy plants or just bite off something and spit it out. Groundhogs love Brassicas, and will ruin carrot beds, so don't always blame the rabbits automatically.

A few years back I had a rabbit addicted to my cayenne pepper. Won't touch any of the other 30 pepper plants, only the cayenne. The rabbits certainly like asparagus, and I have some trouble with sweet corn when they're young. I figured they'd attack my Brassicas but never did.

Anne, if those 100 old milk crates are the metal ones you may have thousands of dollars sitting outside. They sell very well on EBAY for between $20 and $80 depending on the dairy they came from with people paying more for shipping than the price of the crate.

I sold two for $25 each at a garage sale last fall, and used ebay's "items sold" prices to price my crates.

Unfortunately I only have 8 or 9 of those metal milk crates, most of them are the heavy duty plastic. I'll sure watch for the metal ones, though, thanks for the heads up!

Annie

If they are ready, and you are willing to protect them, go ahead. Sitting in pots does not help them, unless you can move them into larger pots. It is supposed to be quite warm for the next week. Just be aware that 2 and 3 weeks on it may be frost cold and rainy. It is your risk, but you seem willing to push.

I honestly have not ever had any problems with them stunting with variable Ohio Spring weather, as long as the plants are of a decent size they seem to grow into very large plants when planted on the early side. Small seedlings or seeds are a bad idea. I don't know about earlier production, stunted plants produce quick because they think they are in trouble.

Do you see warm weather perennials coming out of the ground? I see a lot of plants early, even the slower Hosta are out of the ground. Dandelions have peaked, lawns are being mowed, The soil is pretty warm. Now weather can change quite a bit in the Midwest. You started your seeds too early it seems, since you have shown a willingness to protect them, I would think planting them is probably better than letting the transplant sit in small pots.

Hostas are out, soil temp is 60 at 4" down. As long as I keep a close eye on them worse case I just add some more heaters. I have a lot of elec heaters of all sizes.

I put tom's and peppers in and built a few more cold frames. Covered now with light bulbs in them to add a little heat. I am able to keep air temps 10 degrees higher than outside. Soil temps 4" down are 55 in AM and 60 during the day. I am sure this will increase with cold frames built yesterday. Lowest forecast is 32 so I should not get below 40 air temps (and only at 40 for a couple hours).

I feel confident air temps will always be over 40 and soil over 57 (most times 60 or more).

I think this should be good. We have a cold week ahead then a big warm up. After next week most likely no more temps below 40 until fall.

These don't look right, that is not exactly how the leaves turn brown when starting to go dormant, it looks like they are resprouting new growth, like Rodney stated. They do look "old". You may have soft neck, which do not form a flower scape.

You should pull a few and see if you can tell what is going on.

Well the trouble with white rot is that it infects onions as well. I've got fifty sweet onions right next to these garlic plants that are all doing great. The garlic ARE soft neck - California Early. To the extent they are sprouting new growth, may I presume they will eventually mature?

Agree with the others. Definitely not normal and I'm not sure what is to blame. Maybe a virus? No idea whether they will produce bulbs or not, but the good thing is that garlic is useable at any stage of growth or size.

Rodney