Saturday Vince helped me in the garden most of the morning. The grass around the edges needed to be cut and you know how one thing leads to another . . we spent the entire morning working.
Here’s what I dug: Beets, onions and garlic. There are a few red potatoes on top of the beets .. those were for dinner Saturday night. Except for a few very small beet plants, I dug them all up. The remaining beets can grow and I’ll roast them for salads. By mid-August, I can plant beet seeds again. Only about half the garlic was dug up. I’ll get the rest done later this week. The onions had been planted in three different plantings so as to have fresh onions for a longer period. This is the second batch of onions to come out and there’s one more onion patch, though this late in the summer, they will not be the best onions .. but they will be better than what I buy in the store. I will slice and dehydrate the onions.
Garden Bounty
With so much coming out of the garden, and rows being emptied out, I’m ready to think about the fall garden but the tomatoes haven’t really started getting ripe yet and the okra is knee high to a grasshopper so my summer garden isn’t history yet!
Speaking of grasshoppers, they have not been terrible this year. They’re here, and probably always will be in the summer, but when riding the RTV, I don’t have them going
The beets will be pickled. The onions will be sliced and dehydrated. The garlic . . I’m not real sure what I’m going to do with that!
F. Zuerner says
Love the new layout for your blog. Very Pretty and very easy to read.:)
Carolyn says
LOVE the layout! ads are there, but not blocking my reading. In Ohio it’s been really hot, So far out of my tiny garden I’ve got a lot of peas for my salad, some lettuce (but it’s done) and the potatoes are up to my waist and FINALLY blooming. I’ve run out of dirt to hill them. Tomato plants I have 5 w 7 small green fruits forming…..Green beans have a lot of beans and my bugs have been non existent. Last yr some bug totally ate everything that came up. And my Tomato plants had a fungus that they didn’t recover from. Even so I hardly have time to do any sewing.
liz says
Great layout – lloks good even on a tablet. I can type my comments and see what I am typing!
Mary Jo says
Love your new layout!
Katherine says
I like the changes. I can see more of your content at once. I also like that the comments are in print not cursive anymore – it’s easier to correct myself when I mistype. On an iPad.
Garden harvest is looking good!
Dar in MO says
Nice fresh layout Judy. Your summer harvest is looking very good to me, since nothing has ripened yet here. I may get a few tomatoes, but it will be well to the end of July or maybe even August before we have enough to eat and cook with.
Dottie N. says
New blog page looks great. Glad the grasshoppers haven’t been as bad this year.
Cindy Kuipers says
Wow! I really like it!
myrna sossner says
New format is beautiful … as for ads ….??? I am not getting any ??? They did not bother me in the past … I just ignored them. I guess my mind is able to block out anything that does not interest me! LOL!
Tina in NJ says
Have you thought of pickling the garlic? Is that an Italian thing? I’m reading on an iPad mini and the new format looks great, especially the comments font. For some reason, I don’t get the entire title unless I turn the tablet to landscape. I also seem to have lost any ads or sidebars. Not really a problem, but I thought you’d like the feedback.
JudyL says
For some reason, garlic is one of those things that the USDA recommends against canning. It seems no matter how you process it, they say keep it in the fridge. I’ve seen several recipes for canning it but so far, I’ve always gone by the USDA recommendations and have not done any canning of the garlic.
Rebecca in SoCal says
I was going to suggest roasting some garlic, but if you can’t can it, I guess that would be of limited usefulness (I just love roasted garlic). Dehydrate? You could have garlic powder right next to your jalapeno powder.
Does garlic survive freezing? I’d hate to see you lose your bounty because you couldn’t use it.