I found a new guide to when to harvest garlic and it says after removing the scapes (flower buds) and before all the leaves die back (just some). hopefully we’ll have fewer bitter cloves this year.
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I’m behind on gardening, errands, etc, so here’s a picture from Sunday!
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Last night I opened up the heating mat area to check on tomatoes and peppers who are indoors a few days while it’s chilly out.
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After a bit of rain this morning (maybe a tenth of an inch?) it was cool and humid and cloudy all day.
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I have the green section of the rainbow garden populated with Arkansas yucca, green milkweed, antelopehorns milkweed, whorled milkweed, sand lovegrass, and maybe comet milkweed if any of it survived. I’ve been examining the milkweeds closely lately.
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Could have found it in the day but I was working!
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We noticed two cacti were unhappy and relocated them. Hopefully it is not too late for them to recover, though one looks dicey.
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It got warm suddenly. We got several new plants at a native plant sale yesterday but only planted one in the dark — it’s too warm and windy. We put the other two in this evening. Hopefully the forecast rain tomorrow night actually happens!
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Good food after a day in the front yard.
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I’ll post some pictures of species we have in the garden that we saw in the wild. But first, eating dinner with The Chef and Paula. I believe Paula made this meal.
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