My wife found some of her garlic cloves were sprouting root hairs, so I put few in starter pots to see how they will do.
The owner of the place next door let me have all the seed packets his tenant abandoned on the patio - peas, beans, different kinds of carrots.
About half the garlic cloves are poking green shoots above the ground. And my wife keeps bringing things from her friend's restaurant, like purple basil shoots, hoping that dunking them in fertilized water will result in a viable plant.