The Garlic is in!!!!
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| We save our own garlic from year to year for planting |
Sunday was garlic harvesting day! Four full trailers were loaded full of a beautiful crop.
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| The garlic is cured for many weeks on these trailers in our open air pole barn |
The heads are not as large as last season, but they will be plentiful, as each year we plant a bit more for your seasoning pleasure.
You will notice how different this hardneck garlic is from the California supermarket type. There are no wasted small cloves in the middle, only large easy to peel cloves; between four and six of them.
The heavy workload is upon us….As the temperatures rise, and the rain becomes sparse, we are starting the heavy irrigation cycles that are typical of this time of year. Drip at night on the tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, peppers and eggplants and overhead sprinklers in the mornings and evenings on all the other crops. Moving pipe and traveling reel type sprinklers takes up a lot of our time.
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| Though Connelly does not have to water all the fields like this, he was in charge of watering the yard garden!!! |
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| The first irrigation catastrophe...the bearing went on this pump...again! |
In addition to irrigation, lots of hoeing and hand weeding needs to take place. After the wet spring any weeds that were not killed through mechanical means (using tractor driven weeders) now need to be handled by hand.
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| Still life...Hoes, Seeder and Garlic |
With their roots firmly in the ground, the weeds are now reaching for the sun…attempting to choke out the crops we need. So with hoes and knives and hands our valiant crew is out there getting what needs to be done accomplished
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| These are grain bins on wheels getting ready to be filled with Rye. |
Enjoy the share,
Katie
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