Ugh. A bunch of my garlic has bit the dust. I’m not quite sure what happened- it’s all soft neck garlic in two of the beds.
It looks like one of the poppies I planted last year came up in the lower bed.
I pulled weeds galore today- after a 3 day migraine
I could have summer squash soon!
The sugar magnolia peas taste good.
one of the onion beds is doing much better. Is that the one I acidified before planting?
Planted another butterbaby in the upper bed.
It’s been hot and sunny, and I had a nice looooooong day rearranging the studio today, then stopped by to water B’s lovely plants. Where our land is wild and jungly- hers has a polished garden feel. It was a nice change… and I may have eaten some peas, before I knew what I was doing. It was part muscle memory, part desperation.
Some of our jungle. It needs trimming and weeding, but boy are the bees happy.
We do have a couple of pea stragglers. I am most grateful for their sacrifice.
The purple peas do not taste purple.
Other things are starting to happen too!
Strawberries are happening for real. This was today’s haul.
First blueberry!
Summer squashes
The ugly duckling nova tomato has the first non-cherry fruit. I’m glad I made room for it.
There’s also the start of a healthy pepper.
Sungolds coming soon!
Okra buds. I hope I have enough plants for pollination. They make really lovely flowers too.
Green bean monster!!
Artichoke taller than me!! More than a dozen heads. (I did get up early to spray it with water and been oil, but I’m not confident we’ll ever get viable good out of it. I’m curious about cardoon since you eat the stem on that. I wonder if it tastes similarly.)
The huckleberries are larger this year, but the tree looks like it’s ailing.
The solal underneath it INSANE.
Its cooling down. The birds are singing.
The second best thing about planting “too much” garlic is an abundance of scapes.
I split them into 4 parts- trimmed and put some in the fridge in water, made basil pesto (basil, salt, pepper, hot peppers, garlic, vinegar, touch of sugar), oregano pesto (“), and salsa (cilantro, hot peppers, salt, pepper, lime juice, a few tomatoes). The salsa is definitely the winner.
P weeded and mowed while I did that- and discovered a treat- salmon berries hiding in the bramble!
Yum.
It’s been raining for a few days, almost thunderstorming, and I’ve been busy/flaring to much to be outside. (dislocated neck?)
I planted a few more okra starts in south d and west e
After pulling a bunch of bolting radishes. I found some beets hiding under there, too.
And a lovely robins egg blue robins egg.
the green beans are growing!
I fertilized (acidizer) the tomatoes, except for one container tomato as a test.
Then I side dressed basically everything- lower and pots
Planted nasturtium along the new rock wall in the lower bed
And a couple of delicata on the slope- protected by copper and sluggo.
Asparagus progress
Volunteer Mullein
Okra progress.
We’ve had a couple of strawberries ? out the basket so far. Here’s one with foraged salal berry ( frozen last summer) pancakes.
