August 1st What's Up?

Dear Garden Lovers,

Here is a fabulous slideshow of today's harvest and garlic braiding:


If you click on it, and then look on upper left to choose "full screen slideshow" you can have a HUGE photo experience.

Today at D.I.G.S. we did the following:

Herbs
- Little Diggers did Herbs and took home fresh and dried oregano.
- other herbs (lovage leaves for use as celery flavour) were trimmed and you're welcome to trim more.
- Personally I removed the giant bronze fennel, as I felt responsible for it. I'd planted it when it was tiny and now it had become The fennel that ate Japan.
Not only did it not produce a bulb at all, but it hogged the heck out of the herb garden and spread its happy bronzily healthy progeny all through the other beds. So I replaced it with basil. Whew.......that was CLOSE! :>)



Garlic
- the garlic had been hung to dry inside the "social shed" and M & A.G. kindly showed all how to trim, braid and store it. Wonderful garlic braids!
GORGEOUS garlic braids. Seriously, we should have more garlic braids!!

Note: gardeners seem to love garlic, and took five home each. Next year we might double the beds devoted to garlic. Thanks so much M and A, as we could not do it without your expertise!

Harvesting vegetables

The following were harvested:

kohlrabi, carrot, beet,zucchini, yellow cherry tomatoes, some giant onions

Important: Don't touch the biggest ones that are entered in the contest please! Don't even breathe on 'em....eek. Wowza, are they huge! What is M and A's secret do you think? Feeding them with goat's milk by the full moon?



Also available: whole cabbage heads, and do ignore the grey aphids. They wash right off and are totally organic. ;>)

Tasted
dillweed, blueberries and raspberries.

And see if you can recognize all the flowers and vegetables and fun structures in the above slideshow. You should find a potato tower or two and a sunflower house which will have a morning-glory roof soon.



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Mystery of the week: We're still looking for the name of the disease that attacked the peppers in the green house. We could call it gray-floppy pepper-butt, but it might have a more scientific name. All investigators and pepper-sherlockian dudes welcome. :>)



Best,
Jen