Dreaming of Garlic-

Its a cold, windy day and I am trying to organize my gardening info that I have collected over the years. And then I got to all my garlic stuff.

I wonder how its doing underneath all that snow?

You plant garlic in October and cover it with 3 inches of straw. It pops up with the weeds and the daffodils in the spring. The garlic scapes are awesome looking and its an upright, happy plant with all of the goodies hiding under the ground. You have no idea whats underneath until you dig it up in July and its beautiful. I love it!

Last year I planted Music and Blossom. They were great, but the obsession grew. Because once you taste garlic from a garden you will never want the pathetic, boring stuff from Cub again! So I found some more bulbs at the Renaissance Festival, Spanish Rojo and Silver White. Then I traded some of my garlic starts for a friends. I acquired Georgian Crystal, German Extra Hardy and Chesnook Red!

I think that if I decide to try more varieties I had better make my garden bigger! Funny how that happens.

My first blog post!

Here we go.

I feel like Julie in "Julie and Julia", one of my favorite movies right now.

I thought this would be a good idea to keep up with friends and family and to let people who do go to the market what is new and exciting at our place.

It is January in Minnesota and cabin fever hasn't quite set in yet. But I am thinking it is time to pull out the garden catalogs and get my order in. Especially since I want to start some plants in the house. I usually start herbs for the market and tomato and pepper plants. I have had pretty good luck with this, especially since I got my little green house last spring. So I will let you know what seeds I decide to order soon.

Tami