How to Plant Garlic in the Winter for Early Summer Harvest

I'm a newbie to the gardening game, so imagine my excitement when I found out that I could plant some veggies in the fall to have them appear in spring or early summer.

Love it.

And with all the cooking I've been doing lately, I have discovered I use a lot of garlic. So why not start my fall planting experiment with garlic.

I started by breaking apart the garlic into individual cloves, keeping the thin shells on each.

Getting Cool Weather Plants in the Ground: Lettuce, Kale and More!

I planted some cool-weather veggies last weekend - pre-Snowpocalypse here in Colorado. (For the third week straight it snowed, in April.  I'm ready for spring!)

I was so eager to get out there, and I wanted my lettuce to get a good start this year. I know that you can plant lettuce even earlier than I did, as it is a frost-hardy plant, but being a beginner, I'm pretty cautious.

I even expressed doubts about planting when I did; my husband responded by telling me to trust myself. I've read so much online and in books about gardening this year that I have too much information in my head, and it's making me think too hard about what's right and what's wrong. I didn't think at all last year, and things turned out OK. I think a new gardener needs to balance what they find in books with what they find with experience.