Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

 Most of the garlic is producing scapes now.  These are the "flower" heads.  I put "flower" in quotes because they don...

 The vegetable garden is coming together nicely.  I did a lot of work over the past few months, building the new raised beds, removing the o...

 The raised beds are done.  They are all filled with soil mix.  The last one got about 2/3 soil from where the neighbor built a road on his ...

Garlic is something I like to do on nature's schedule.  It's fall, late Sept.  Sept (preferably) or October is Garlic planting time ...

 This year I let a couple of the garlic scapes make bulbils.  I think these are the variety "Musik" but I'm not certain.  The ...

 The bigger garlic heads are Music, the smaller ones are Spanish Roja, I think.  I'll save about 5 of the largest to plant next year.  R...

Garlic Bed.  4.2.19 Today I cleaned up the garlic bed.  The main problem with perennial or overwinter vegetables is that weeds grow amon...

Overwintered Garlic Starts.  L is Spanish Roja. R is Music.  2.18.19 Here is the garlic that I planted last fall. Some varieties look ...

Saijo Persimmon Tree.  10.28.15 This post has odds and ends from a few garden tasks, and walking around. The Asian type persimmons ar...

Music Garlic Cloves to Plant.  Planted 10.5.18 This is the photo that I meant to post previously.  This is the garlic variety "Mu...

Spanish Roja Garlic to Plant.  10.5.18 Planting Garlic.  10.5.18 Today I planted the first batch of garlic.  These starts were from...

Planting things in late summer or fall, takes a little optimism.  It means, maybe I'll be around next year to appreciate the results, ...

Garlic.  6.4.18 Sweet Corn.  6.4.18  Most of the kitchen garden is doing well.  The main problems have been herbivores.  I've w...

Today I planted garlic.  Three rows from my own harvested garlic, I think German Red.  Four rows of this Duganski from Territorial.  I als...

It's been sunny and warm for three days. This was a good time to cultivate the kitchen garden. The potatoes and onions that I planted ...

Vegetable bed covered with leaves.  10.29.16  Yesterday I raked up a neighbor's maple leaves.  Those now cover a bed that was Indian...

Mostly Inchelium Red Garlic for planting.  9.30.16 Garlic, placed and ready to conver.  9.30.16 This is a good time to plant garlic...

Germinating Fava.  3.6.16 New Strawberry bed.  3.6.16  Late winter kitchen garden. The first favas have emerged.  These are th...

Chive Beds and New Raised Bed.  2.10.16  All of the overwintering Allium family perennial vegetables are growing. The 2 raised beds o...