dalthauser

Today I spent all day prepping and preparing garlic pickles and salsas.  

It started out with a trip to the garden in the morning and seeing several of my garlics bursted open and snails on them (wet weather being the cause of both).  I decided it was time to just pull it all up and deal with it.  I also went ahead and picked a gallon of mild jalapenos and pulled up the remaining onions.  

It took hours to prep the garlic, but I did it and ended up with about 5 pounds of prepped cloves and about 3 pounds of tender garlic greens.

I pickled 5 half pints of garlic cloves and froze another pint.  I also prepped and canned 7 pints of salsa.

That pretty much took up the whole day.  I did get out once to Walmart to buy more canning jars.

Sure will be glad when the weather dries up a little so I can get going in the garden - it's getting a little scary out there.

Pretty uneventful holiday.
Was kind of hoping I'd get invited over to someone's place - but no.
Not feeling sorry for myself.  It was a good day nevertheless :-)

I've had this Livejournal for a long time, but I haven't written in it much - and almost no public posts.  
I'm going to start writing more I hope.

Spring garden is all but done.  Still have garlic / onions in the ground, but everything else is replaced with summer fare.

I have planted for summer:

Tomatoes:  444's, Celebrity, and some cherries that I didn't get a variety name on

Peppers:   Sweet Bell and mild Jalapenos

Soybeans:  Can't remember variety

Garbanzo Beans: An experiment - we'll see

Millet:  Only because the bugs ate the Amaranth and I needed somthing to go there; I'll turn it under when it gets high enough

Basil:  Thai Lemon, but it's pretty scrawny looking - don't know if it will survive

Okra:  Half a row only because I want the experience (will give any and all harvest away)

Pole Beans:  On a nifty tee-pee I made (pic later I hope)

Cucumbers:  Also on a nifty Tee Pee (these already have cukes on the vines - yay)

New Zealand Spinach:  First time growing this - so far so good (bugs don't seem to notice it)

Malabar Spinach:  Not sure if this will take off - time will tell.

Got the Pommegranite trees in the ground over the winter.  They have new growth.

Blackberries I put in over the winter have growthon them.  Won't get any berries this year, but the growth this year will bear fruit next year. Yay.

Fig tree is now taller than me and very healthy looking.  I should get a good batch of figs this year from last year's growth.

That's pretty much it.  Don't plan on planting anything else until Indian Summer.  From now until then I'll be keeping things up, harvesting, and doing the list of summer garden projects I have scheduled.