Misplaced optimism, garlic

As I was doing a bit of cleaning around the chives yesterday, I pulled up something I thought was just lousy grass but turned out to be lousy garlic.  

I had planted some sprouting bulbs a little while ago, but they certainly haven't (yet) turned into anything viable.  I put one of them back into the dirt because I am a) an experimenter and b) an incurable optimist.