Pulling garlic and onions

Got a pretty good haul of onions and garlic today. That’s prolly about half- the other half is still in the ground. GOOD year for this stuff! Many onions bolted, but the remaining ones are big and beautiful

The garlic in the west bed was best- the middle variety in the south bed was good too- I’m a little disappointed with the ones on the sides (I’ll edit to add variety names)

Also got a couple of dinky novas, raspberries, garlic scapes, and some squash

Oh, and yellow beans!

Looks like something (deer?) helped itself to some green bean and raspberry leaves

Oh, and a couple of tomatillo and one

Tiny

Pepper

Pulling garlic and onions

Got a pretty good haul of onions and garlic today. That’s prolly about half- the other half is still in the ground. GOOD year for this stuff! Many onions bolted, but the remaining ones are big and beautiful

The garlic in the west bed was best- the middle variety in the south bed was good too- I’m a little disappointed with the ones on the sides (I’ll edit to add variety names)

Also got a couple of dinky novas, raspberries, garlic scapes, and some squash

Oh, and yellow beans!

Looks like something (deer?) helped itself to some green bean and raspberry leaves

Oh, and a couple of tomatillo and one

Tiny

Pepper

Pulling garlic and onions

Got a pretty good haul of onions and garlic today. That’s prolly about half- the other half is still in the ground. GOOD year for this stuff! Many onions bolted, but the remaining ones are big and beautiful

The garlic in the west bed was best- the middle variety in the south bed was good too- I’m a little disappointed with the ones on the sides (I’ll edit to add variety names)

Also got a couple of dinky novas, raspberries, garlic scapes, and some squash

Oh, and yellow beans!

Looks like something (deer?) helped itself to some green bean and raspberry leaves

Oh, and a couple of tomatillo and one

Tiny

Pepper

Carrots

I may finally have done carrots right! These are just the guys I thinned out.

Plus- see those first two singold!?!

Also got some berries and beets

The garlic in West e is kind of falling over, so I pulled one to check it. HUGE and gorgeous. Yay!

We also did some more work on the blackberry pit. I’m happy to be reclaiming some more space (in time)

Planting day

I’m very happy with how my starts are looking.

Lots of planting today. The weekend is going to be in the 80’s, nights over 50. I hope I’m not jumping the gun!

Green and yellow beans planted.

Peppers (healthy, jalapeño 2, mini bell 2) and tomatillos 3

Tomatoes (nova 2, legend 1) and okra (clemson 3, jambalaya 3)

Added a sungold to the nova.

One of each pepper in a bag (healthy, waltz, jalapeño, mini bell, anaheim)

Squashes look oh-kay. I might add a seed to each for backup.

Progress from the last week

I’ve been doing some basic things in the yard. I moved one Nova and one tomatillo into season starters, they seem to be doing ok, so are the squash. I put another patty pan and delicata on the slope, but the season starters won’t work there so I made a cover from a basket and plastic and I open it when i open the greenhouse every day.

So much

Honestly, I’ve been working in the garden more days than not. I spends hours weeding, working the soil, watering, planting… It’s good. It feels like good work that I’m doing. I know I’m making progress, doing things i wouldn’t do otherwise- of course it doesn’t seem to be enough… never… but anywho.

Yesterday I planted 6 more squash with season starters. I have a couple more plants I’ll try to put along the driveway

Definitely easier to fill those around a bucket.

Today I did a ton of weeding- the upper slope and main slope. P prepped a couple of beds for tomatoes.

The tiny gray cat pooped in my pea box, so that’s annoying. I put some baskets in the planter to make it less appealing.

I’m feeling the usual antsiness to get things in the ground- coupled with a little extra “should I plant everything because it may be hard to get fresh foods?” P is being his usual supportive self and saying “sure!” to everything, but I know he’s a little anti (growing) potatoes and quinoa (“too much work for the payoff”)

I am very glad that i am already gardening- most of the seed companies arent filling orders anymore, and it’s tricky to buy plants. This is a weird world we are living in.

I am very happy to have the garden to pour all my energy into.