Today was a fabulous day for working in the garden, warm and sunny. We haven't had any rain so the soil was very workable for planting. It might be a bit early to plant garlic but the weather is predicted to be wet and that makes for a planting mess so I am starting now.
Today I planted 6 varieties of garlic and marked them with stakes...wrote the names on the stakes at least for now.
I set out Brown tempest, Chesnok Red, Translyvanian, Romainian Red, Red Janice and whatever the small red soft necked garlic that I bought last year from a Chinese woman who called it Chinese Red...I don't think that is really the name of that garlic. I hope to plant at least a few more varieties, Music for sure.
Made a great recipe for collards, saute a bit of onion and garlic, slice the collards very thin, best if rolled up like a cigar and then saute with a bit of water for just a few minutes...super good and very pretty.
Still have tomatoes on the vine, I will be able to get a few more ripe ones but the rest will have to be fried green tomatoes or chutney. Mr. Stripy is so pretty but certainly won't get ripe with the rains coming. The Sunburst continues to ripen and taste great, so no question about planting that one.
Trombocini still has squash growing, about 6 on the vine and I think they will get large enough to eat. There are also 2 small zucchini that are trying their best with this warm weather to grow, they will be cute little ones about 5" or so. I will "harvest" them tomorrow and remove the vine for the winter.
Haven't posted any pictures lately, but we have had great collards, mustard and beets this last week from the garden.
Happy that we have lots of flat leaf parsley still along with chives. The basil is nearly all gone and I will bring a sprig of Thai basil in to start in water on the window sill.
Time to try drying some herbs for the winter...
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