Garlic

Here is Jen with a small portion of the garlic harvest this year. As you can see this is not your grocery store garlic. After pulling and starting to dry about 60% we still have about 30 cloves to harvest.

Update

The real gardener hanging out on the lavender. Thought these guys were never going to come around.







Twin rows of Basil, which after clipping off the top leaves turned into half a quart of pesto. Let's see, if we do that once a week for the next 6 weeks, that would be about 3 quarts of pesto, which doesnt include the second planting Im about to make.








Here is the main garden area circa July 14, 07 . Took a few days to get this published. From back to front , strawberries, potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, yellow onions, walla walla onions, carrots, tomatillos, tomatoes.




To the right of the photo above, all raised beds in what used to be the driveway. Well there is still some driveway left over. Squashes to the right, Garlic, basil and summer squash and cucumbers on the left side.

First Broccoli

Here is the first broccoli head ready to harvest. We actually had this one for dinner tonight. That before an all out lightning, rain and hail storm.





Jen with the prize

The Gardener

Kamaji gardening

101 Farenheit

This is news, we just broke 102, where will it end????






This screenshot of my yahoo Weather widget says it all. It's only July, what will August be like?

Heating Up

Val was up to visit last weekend and we decided to pull up some garlic for the pesto. Alas the cloves were not fully formed but it was still garlicy and tasty.






We have been eating peas from the vine for the last week or so, been awhile since updating the blog, busy with stuff. Watering everything a couple of times a day and fertilizing with llama manure tea.





The first plant to produce flowers on the dahlia plants. Things seem to be slow this year. Not sure if it was the late start planting and not getting plants started in pots. Surely must put the dahlias in the ground by May 1 next year.





Here are the potatoes with a row of brocolli behind. These really took off after putting the comfrey tea on last weekend. These plants are not getting any additional water, but are buried about a food down, so they are getting groundwater.





Summer squash next to the garlic. Thought we could be harvesting garlic soon but they are not ready yet. The squashes are doing really well. Probably need to build some trellises to keep them under control