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Today I went out and gathered goodies from the garden. The biggest endeavor was harvesting 2/3 of the garlic that had been planted last fall. The leaves had gone brown and that's a sign they need to be pulled. I think I timed it pretty well because only one bulb was obviously overripe and splitting. The yield was mixed with some big beautiful bulbs, some tiny, a the majority somewhere in between. Perhaps better soil would have helped. They are sitting to dry now. I didn't count them, but it's a fair haul for something that is mostly set it and forget it.

I also brought in a half dozen leaves of lettuce, a colander full of bush beans, and a bowl full of small carrots. That's all the carrots from one of my short rows that I planted. I'm not entirely happy with the yield, but they are so unbelievably sweet and tasty! Makes me dream of fields of waving carrots like Bugs Bunny dying of starvation. Our bush beans are also tasty, we had some on Sunday night (I think). The yellow ones are particularly sweet and sunny tasting.

The snow peas still aren't showing any enthusiasm. Sad, I was looking forward to fresh steamed snow peas this year.