[Previous Rural Farmgirl, June 2010 – January 2012]
It’s garlic harvest time here in Elsinore! Over the past few weeks, our garlic patch has “ripened” from a patch of healthy deep green garlic plants to a patch of yellowing, drying drooping plants ready for harvest. Aside from hay and some grain, garlic is the largest crop we grow here on the farm (unless you call lambs a “crop!”), and it is always such a suspense-filled time when we dig and pull the first few garlic bulbs from the ground. Are they fully mature? Did they escape damage from pests? Are the bulbs pleasantly big and plump? Are their papery skins intact? This year the answer to all of these is a resounding “YES!”
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Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm about garlic! We have a small garden and have planted garlic for our own family’s consumption. Someday {soon} we hope to own more acres and farm for a living. Hearing your story encourages me and will propel us on in our dream. . .
Enjoy your farmily!
I so look forward to reading your blogs each week. And was so glad to hear that in Utah it went from winter to summer so quickly! Here in Texas, we can usually count on a good week or two of Spring, then the heat arrives! This summer has been one of the better ones as we have not had the severe droughts that usually occur. And I love to see your pictures and your boys always helping. Keep the news from your farm coming!
Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed this post so much. I am just beginning to get into gardening. I have been researching so that come next spring I can have my own little space. Loved the photo of the little one helping bake cake.
blessings on your week
I enjoyed your post once again. Here in the Salt Lake Valley it was the same. Cool to hot. My garden has not fared well at all this year. Besides the late start, we’ve had sprinkler issues and DH is recovering from back surgery. But the good news is that our apricot tree is bearing enough fruit to feed a third world country! Canning and freezing (and eating and sharing) apricots like mad…. And on the farm where I work, our corn is coming along very nicely!
Your photos are great and I love that your farm is a farmily effort!! Hugs, Cathy
My hubby and I tried growing garlic this year! Oh joy! Rapture! It is oh so gratifying to dig up those pungent bulbs! Our dream is to farm it full time, hopefully we can make it true next year, but until then, I shall live vicariously through you! We did start our own tomatoes and peppers from seed–100 maters and 150+ peppers as well as the other usual suspects(corn,beans,pumpkins, squash, taters, onions). Everything is so lush here in northern NY, I am just praying the weather continues as it has been. We’ve had unusually hot temps and occasional soaking rains, so there has been no need to water. I’m keeping my fingers and toes crossed that it will continue, because so far, so good.
I love your posts. Thanks for helping to keep the dream alive!
peace,
the mitten lady
Sounds like a busy week for you and the farmily.I love hearing the younger generation (you) describe life on the farm.Keep up the good work.Your enthusiasm is a great asset.Oh!This year,we were told geraniums would keep mosquitoes away. I placed 3 pots at the edge of my picnic table. No bites yet but,our weather has been upside-down this year so I’m not sure if the flowers are responsiblebut they do look pretty.
What a great post! I loved every word…. especially, the one you misspelled…
FARMILY~ its’ perfect!
Thanks for sharing your inspiration for growing garlic…I was right there with you in the big red barn!
Have fun on the Farm!
Look forward to your next farmily adventure!
Deb
Hi I also like the new word Farmily. It is great and keep it up, love the story about Garlic and have wanted to start some myself, just never have. I live in town and have a garden about 15×15. But we grow a good amount of vegetables, foe the two of us. I will try some garlic this year. Thanks keep up the good work. Juanita Massey
I know precious little about garlic in the garden. Do you have a cool cellar to store it in? How long does it keep…or do you can it? What a great experience to go to Pay Dirt school. I hope to go to MJF henquarters someday :o)
I love your story. I had planned on planting garlic this fall and now I’m extra excited! I have been a MaryJane fan for a few years and now I just joined the sisterhood. We have been growing our own little "farmette". Chickens are my "crop" and we are hoping to get a few goats too. Until; you post again…
Love this, lots of work but beautiful outcome. For Cathy K. who’s blog I looked at, the porcelain piece is a spoon holder, it shoud have some spoons inside also made of porcelain. I believe they were used for tea. I have one just like it, only mine has painted roses and its beautiful. Thanks Maria