garlic harvest

Garlic varieties: Silverwhite, Polish Hardneck, Mechti, Red Toch

I harvested most of our garlic crop today. Polish Hardneck is the definite winner in terms of size and quality. We were a little late in harvesting the Mechti...a lot of the encasing skin disintegrated, so those bulbs will not store well.

recent harvest

Just wanted to capture this for our record. I picked some tomatoes and a lot of purple string beans. I also harvested a number of things that we had mostly forgotten about or given up on: carrots, beets, radishes, chard, and kale. We even had three kohlrabi plants that are finally doing okay.

I also cleared the weeds around the cucumber plants and discovered a bunch of ripe cucumbers:

garden-work

Here's what our garden looks like these days. Some notes:

• Lots of calendula flowers. There were lots of self-seeded volunteer calendula sprouts since we didn't dead head that much.
• Lots of volunteer sunflowers as well. We kept two, one of which is the tallest plant in the whole community garden!
• Our onions (from sets planted in spring) seem to be doing really well. They all bloomed, which is less desirable since it makes the onions worse for storing. The flowers taste pretty good though.
• The sage and oregano are both doing really well.
• We are continually harvesting lots of lettuce and arugula.
• The chamomile is recovering quite nicely.
• Tomatoes are doing better after feeding them Foxfarm "Grow Big."
• Peas are doing well. Not really climbing their structure as much as we'd hoped. We cut them back a bit to make room for beans.
• We've been letting purslane grow as a live mulch and beneficial companion plant.

Here's a recent harvest: