Not quite time for the Garlic Harvest

My landlord has a large plant bed comprised of poor soil and weeds directly across from my apartment window. Last spring, I had tried planting some nice flowers. Unfortunately, they were promptly covered in weedkiller and perished. This year, I upped the ante and planted both daffodils and three different varieties of garlic, a mild, a spicy, and an elephant variety. You can see the mild garlic growing in the rear of the bed. I planted the garlic in the bed after weeding it by hand and covering it with a nice thick layer of mulch. The plants have up to now done fairly well, with the daffodils blooming in early spring and the garlic sending up scapes, that we harvested two weeks ago, which were quite tasty to boot. Unfortunately, the landlord's yard care company has been spraying the plants with weedkiller, which I believe is starting to turn the plants a sickly shade of yellow. On Saturday, I pulled one of the elephant garlic bulbs out of the ground and found it, unsurprisingly, immature. The one bulb should provide good cooking material, but we have decided to leave the rest of the plants in the ground for the time being. Hopefully the large rainstorms that have been sweeping the area recently will help to wash away unwanted herbicides while not drowning our bulbs.

Here is the healthy elephant garlic, with scapes still attached.

Thinking that we would pull out all of the garlic plants, we went to the farmer's market on Saturday morning and purchased a good collection of mint, two varieties: Chocolate (Mentha piperita cv.) seen below and Vietnamese mint (persicaria odorata). The thought was that we would pull out all of the garlic and replace it with the mint and a selection of Poblano and Anaheim peppers. Mint is typically an "aggressive plant," enough so that the farmer's market vendor warned me as I bought it to be careful lest it spread and take over the entire garden, a trait we hope to take advantage of to help the plant stand up well against the poor soil and overzealous application of herbicides. As we decided not to harvest the entire crop of garlic, the mint and peppers were unceremoniously placed among the wilting stalks.