These are the first of the "Music" variety garlic, that I planted last fall. I've grown them through many garlic generations here, so they are very well adapted. The cloves are very large, and strongly flavored.
These are not ready to dig for storage. The paper-like covering needs to be dried out first. I think they will be ready in a few more weeks. Meanwhile, we have fresh garlic from the garden.
Here is the Hardy Chicago fig tree that I pruned in March, as of today.
Here is how it looked just after pruning, 15 March 22.
I tipped the most vigorous new shoots, as I usually do, to promote formation of fig buds. Given the severity of the pruning, it may not bear this year. Or it might.
(The house has been repaired and painted recently, but it's the same tree).
I removed the rain cover from the genetic dwarf peaches. It worked - no leaf curl at all except one branch that was sticking out in the rain. The bigger tree is Garden Gold (I think).
This tree is very lush, but only about five feet tall. Under all those leaves one can find growing peaches. They were too thick so I removed about 90% of them, a few weeks ago.
The winner for the first squash blossom, is yellow summer squash "Saffron".
The heirloom zucchini, Costata romanesca has a lot of flower buds. The plants are incredibly vigorous. They look like rhubarb plants at this stage.
The first flowers this year are all female, which usually means they won't form squashes. Sometimes they do anyway.
Having an irrigation system on these is a real life saver. It's a lot less carrying of buckets and hoses. Squash leaves show water stress by wilting, and there is none of that so far.
