Good garlic storage article

Good garlic storage article:

https://www.gardenbetty.com/a-guide-to-curing-and-storing-garlic/

Peppers are a flop

Not going to grow peppers again.  Even the store-bought one on its own next to the step has lots of leaves but no flowers or peppers.

Record number of recipes made today

Made 9!! recipes today, mostly with harvest from the garden, and some with local berries.

Pesto (basil and parsley)
Zucchini soup with rice (zukes)
Zucchini soup with coconut milk (zukes)
The other zucchini soup (zukes)
Zucchini sauce with pasta (zukes)
Zucchini/carrot muffins (zukes)
Zucchini break (zukes)
Strawberry pie
Raspberry muffins

Zucchini harvest galore

With five full size zucchini plants, tons of zucchinis have come in / keep coming in.  Cooked up or gave away about 10 good sized ones this weekend.

Zinnias looking great

These zinnias are way taller than I thought they'd be, but, they're doing great.  Lots of different colours and shades, and some are poofy while others are more daisy-like.

Next year, will grow these seeds again, but will also try some that are shorter.

Ground cherry harvest started within the past few days

Ground cherry harvest started within the past few days.  Just a few here and there so far.

Sowed beets, chard, lettuce in former bok choy patch

Pulled all the bok choy because it's all full of holes.  Didn't have that problem last year, at least not to this extent.

In their place, sowed beets, chard, and a variety of lettuce, because why not.

First celery harvest

First celery harvest today, a couple of nice decent-sized stalks.

Snipped/bagged onion seed heads

Snipped off two onion seed heads and placed them in a brown paper bag, where hopefully they will finish drying up and then I can shake the remaining seeds out.  I noticed the individual seed "containers" that were already brown were empty, guess the seeds fell the ground.  Wonder if any will self-seed. 

These seed heads are from one of the onions I started last year from bought seed, which survived the winter and I let just keep growing.  Several other onions are also in flower, but not sure which were from the store-bought onion that I planted a month or two ago, so leaving those ones be.

How to grow garlic -- good post

Good article about how to grow garlic:

http://ottawacitizen.com/life/homes/gardening/gardening-think-ahead-and-plant-garlic

Pea harvest almost over

Decent pea harvest the past couple of weeks.  Almost done now, just some stragglers left. 

Harvest was snacking-volume only, not enough to store or give away.  Consider trying two pea trellises next year.

Malabar spinach starting to grow again?

The two remaining malabars (I must have pulled the other ones) near the pea trellis have suddenly started growing.  Maybe due to the heat wave the last few days?  Still only ~6" tall, but pretty sure there's new growth.  Need to pull the dying pea plants to give them sun.

Basil and parsley pesto

Harvested 2 cups of basil and 1 cup of parsley and made the most delicious pesto.

Sowed beets, lettuce, chard (and removed bok choy)

Removed the dreadful bok choy, which this year was full of holes.

Sowed beets at the back, chard in front, and scattered lettuces at the very front.

Zucchini harvest started June 24th, going well

Zucchini harvest started June 24th, going well.  So far 3 yellows, and 2 greens.  There are a total of 5!! plants this year.  The yellow has been most productive so far.

Malabars spinach a flop

Malabars spinach all a total flop.  They just stopped growing, at ~4" tall.  Don't grow again.

Bell peppers doing terribly

Bell peppers doing terribly, but so are those of many in the Edible Gardens group.  Not going to bother with peppers again in future years, never had much success with them.  Banana pepper and jalapeno pepper which I bought as transplants are doing ok, have harvested one each so far but only a few more peppers on each, might be the end of them.

Won't grow peppers next year, way too inconsistent and poor harvest.

Garlic scapes

Have harvested a few garlic scapes.  Put in salad. They're kind of bland, but perfectly edible.

Flea beetle!

Uh oh!  Flea beetle damage first noticed on one of the store-bought tomato plants, yesterday, then today on closer inspection some damage also on some of the ground cherries.  So far the two ground cherries next to the air condition are looking good.

Only reason I noticed them and knew what they were is they've been a topic on several posts on the fb group this week.

Hope they will run their course and move on without running the plants into the ground...

Next year, start zinnias earlier

Only just now starting to see a flower bud starting to form on the most developed zinnias.  Sowed on April 22nd.  Next year, try sowing ~3 weeks earlier, around April 1st.