You shoul have tested some before pulling all up. Six months in the garden had been mostly dormancy time. I am in z8,GA and have garlics planted last OCT/NOV. but they are green and growing. Only their outer most leaves have turned brown. Maybe you did not water them enough??? My garlics will be ready around early June. What can you do with 40 young garlics? I would say: throw away the yellowed parts, cut them into about 1/8" pieces, wash them (soak in cold water, pick them as they float) FREEZ THEM in ziplock bags. use small bags so each will hold just enough for one use. I have done this many times with leeks. when you defrost them, they are nice and green.

African daisy anise hyssop bachelor buttons ( only a few) balsam impatiens blackberry lily black-eyed Susan buckwheat canna lily cantaloupe Canterbury bells carnation, Chabaud mix castor bean celosia plumosa columbine coreopsis, yellow sunburst Datura, white dill feverfew 4 o'clock foxglove gaillardia gloriosa daisy hollyhock, creme de Cassis lily, noID love lies bleeding marigolds, various Mexican hat Mexican mint millet, limelight spray monarda mullein Nicandra Nigella petunia pinks phlox Drummondi Queen Anne's lace rose campion salvia scabiosa Shasta daisy, Alaska sunflower, various tithonia (Mexican sunflower) tomato, grape and Rutgers Verbena bonariensis vinca major (just beginning ... getting a few pods, but plants are loaded) yarrow, pastels watermelon wild daisy (ox-eye) yucca filamentosa zinnia

We have a foolish Phoebe who persists in building her nest on the front porch every year. We have cats who sit on the porch most of the day. They pretty much ignore the Phoebe nest, which is up under the porch roof, about 8' above the porch floor, but when a baby bird falls from the nest, a cat gets it. Despite this, the Phoebe stubbornly insists on putting the nest in the same place every year. Every single time we open the front door, she flies away. I don't know how she ever sits on the eggs enough to hatch them. This has gone on for years. She is one stubborn Phoebe. Congrats on the SunGolds. Any tomato you grow yourself is going to be delicious and so worth the wait. We're still getting tomatoes from the first few early plants I bought on Feb. 1st. Our first ripe fruit from plants I raised from seed will be SunGolds but they are just barely beginning to turn, so it will be a few more days. After that, it seems likely the next ripe tomatoes will be Black Cherry, followed by a full-sized black tomato variety called Vorlon. The tomato plants purchased February 1st have done a great job of producing early fruit---we've harvested and eaten about 50 large tomatoes so far, which is the best early crop we've ever had. These plants have done so well that I didn't even get in a big hurry to put our home-grown tomato plants in the ground. There was no need to rush since the early plants were doing so well. I noticed today we have a jalapeno that is about ready to pick. It is pretty comical. It is on a Mucho Nacho plant I planted in the bed with those early purchased tomato plants in March. The plants have not necessarily grown very quickly, but did flower early and set fruit early. The one large jalapeno pepper is one-third the length of the entire plant. I saw it today and just shook my head---the plant kinda reminds me of a Charlie Brown christmas tree with its one lovely 'ornament' of a pepper that is just about big enough to pull the plant over onto its side. I'm tempted to go ahead and harvest the pepper just to relieve the plant from the burden of holding up a pepper that likely weighs more than the plant itself does.

Cilantro is not a perennial regardless of where it is grown!! But it bolts and goes to seed rapidly in hot weather and becomes bitter tasting so a late season sowing for harvesting in cooler fall temps is a great idea. Won't survive a frost, however. In zone 7b there should be a lot of veggies that you can winter over. Most root crops - carrots, parsnips, beets, turnips, etc. - and many of the cool season crucifers - collards, cabbages and kales. Brussel sprouts prefer cooler temps and actually become more tender and sweeter if allowed to go through a good frost or two. And you can grow cauliflower and broccoli well into fall - they will easily survive and grow through a few light frosts.