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day 3052: preparing seed garlic for a slightly smaller, small mountain of garlic.
regular readers might recall we’ve been planting and harvesting a small mountain of garlic for several years now. we usually plant around 200 cloves around this time of year in our lovely cropp crop. it turns out that 200 head of garlic is, well, way too much for a family of three even after you [...]
sowing the seeds of a garlic harvest.
continuing our tradition of planting about a month later than you should, we finally got about 200 cloves planted in our organic valley employee garden. so if all goes as planned we’ll have another small mountain of garlic in about eight months for the third year in a row. also, friends and family may be [...]
the strawberries are coming!
finally the strawberries are ready for the pickin’! we got about a gallon of them today and there are many, many more on the way. they are noticeably less bugs and slugs in the garden this year which i assume is a side benefit of The Girls pecking and scratching around the garden. i think [...]
tending to the cropp crop.
the garlic we planted last fall at our employee garden at organic valley hq [1] is coming in nicely! and perhaps we even have one of the nicer looking employee plots ( inside joke. we have at times over the years had a notoriously ill kept plot. )! certainly better looking than last year when [...]
day 2503: documenting the first harvest of asparagus!
odin and i gave his mother a camera for mother’s day, but i think there’s a little confusion over just whose camera it is! but he has good instincts – when i said it was time to go pick our first harvest of asparagus from the family garden, he asked to wait a minute and [...]
day 2275: The Last Harvest.
sigh. autumn has officially arrived. the days are getting shorter and nights are getting cooler so time has come to prepare the garden for winter and harvest all that remains before the first frost. thankfully, we had quite the crop of green beens to harvest – just the right amount to make a batch of [...]
wherein we harvest a small mountain of garlic.
finally garlic harvest day arrived for our first crop of garlic at our organic valley employee garden! 250 head of garlic makes for a nice sized crop. even after factoring what we’ll use for seed for next years crop and our own personal consumption, we should some left over to pawn off to unsuspecting victims. [...]
The Girls love the strawberry patch.
turns out, The Girls, love, love, love the strawberry patch. it’s pretty darned cute to watch them race – and i do mean race – over to the patch when we let them roam free in the yard. unfortunately they’re going to be pretty bummed when we mow over the strawberries this weekend. it’s hard [...]
the fruits of rubus strigosus’ labor.
it’s that time of year! gallons and gallons of raspberries coming to fruition in the garden. many will be frozen for winter consumption. but i’m sure a few will make it into a pie. or two. and raspberry preserves and sprinkled in yogurt and…
on the topic of water-logged garlic at organic valley hq.
the 250 head of garlic at organic valley hq seems to be doing ok with all the rain we’ve been getting but it’s certainly water-logged and i suppose all the mulch that’s keeping the weeds under control isn’t helping to dry things out. this is our first year with garlic – is it going to [...]
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