Bawang grows in my pocket garden

Now in my pocket garden at home, healthy greens of Batanes red garlic. Cloves sown last week. They grow that fast.

BAWANG
Garlic (Allium sativum, L.)

• ba-wang in Tagalog, Ilocano, Bicolano, Capampangan, Pangasinense, Maguindanaon, Tausug, and Tiruray. Also spelled ocassionally as bauang in Tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasinense, and Capampangan.
• ahos in Cebuano and Boholano.
• lasuna in Waray.
• lasuna or lasuna a tekapun in Maranao.
• ahus in Yakan.
• a.k.a. lansuna na lanang and takapan in Maguindanaon.

Taking advantage the cold weather and intermittent rain showers, I planted cloves of garlic in my pocket garden and they now sprout well in pot soil consists of compost and burnt rice hull (carbon ash). The young leaves is as good as spring onion (sibuyas dahon) and sakurab (Maranao scallion) when used in cooking. What I have here are the tiny Batanes red garlic and the big Taiwan garlic.

Batanes red garlic sprouts and few more cloves sown as seeds.

The first time I saw a field of garlic plantation was in 2018 while setting footprints in Brgy Monteclaro, about 25 kilometers north of San Jose City, Occidental Mindoro.

I learned that it would take around 9 months to grow a garlic clove to be ready to harvest as a fully grown head. Wow, that's how long a human baby is also carried in mother's womb. We must put more value and patronize more the garlics cultivated by our local farmers.

Taiwan garlic sown last Sunday are now sprouting. They look healthy. Today, I'm burying few more cloves and expecting to harvest them on my birthday next year, exactly nine months from today.

In photos are Batanes red garlic and Taiwan garlic.