Use that garlic!

Watching garlic grow is amazing. it shoots up sometimes 2 feet or more. As the days lengthen, it flowers (called scapes.)

We use the scapes as fresh garlic-it is pungent, green and truly fine.You can make a pesto or just chop them up into whatever you need.

There is something else we do..we don;t wait for the garlic to dry up enough to remove from the ground. I'll take the smallest ones and use them-fresh. They have far less skin. they are excellent; moist; just try cooking with them.Chop them up-you;ll have little in the way of skins to remove!

WEEDS!

the persistent rains led to a huge number of weeds in the beds. Hard to tell in multi planted beds sometimes.....and it was way too wet to work with any kind of hoe.so..

back to hand weeding. and feeding just about all of it to the chickens.yup, weeds have uses.At least with wet ground the weeds come right up!

all the clover gets laid down as "mulch" around the plants.chickweed and plantain and dock are chicken feed. anything else if it hasn;t gone to seed can go in the compost.

I've finally emptied the kitchen compost into the garden compost ( we separate out kitchen garbage because-the dogs will eat it.) I have to start covering all the beds with a layer of compost-because after all our wet weather, it turned hot. almost 100 degrees 3 days in a row.

now everything out there in the yard is-adobe.Well, on to the next project!