Garden Post. picking tomatoes !!! peeked at my onions and garlic and they seem to be coming along nicely - Farmer's Almanac says by end of June. DID YOU KNOW onions and garlic take 9 MONTHS !!!! for spring crop. finally warming up enough for okra to start growing taller. going to thin and replant some this weekend. SUNFLOWERS are starting to bud. and cucs are looking pretty perky.