Garlic and onions
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Coming back down from the mountains (unexpectedly, for house painting purposes), we returned to heat and humidity. It was a decided difference. But it's been rainy here, thankfully; the rain gauge showed 3 inches in the last week and half! So everything from containers to shrubs are looking good. It's nice to have an opportunity to check the garden-- that was our first order of business. It's a good thing to have had plenty of rain!
One exception were the short-day onions, whose tops seemed to have largely melted away because of some sort of fungus; I harvested all of the bulbs, though, which although small, hopefully will be tasty.
The garlic, surprisingly (or maybe not), had browned up and is largely ready to harvest.
The young leeks are doing OK, but also are suffering from too much rain, seemingly somewhat mildew-stressed. I'll either hill them up, or harvest them as 'baby leeks'!
The garlic harvest looks good; here are the results from two of my beds, ready for bundling up to dry tomorrow.
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