Garlic Harvest – 2017
Tis that time of year again! It's a been a very rainy summer around here, and I was hopeful the garlic would make it through ok. This is our kids…
Garden Plan (2016)
My 2016 garden started last fall with the planting of seventy-two cloves of garlic started from Enon Valley Garlic bulbs. Just after the daffodils started to poke through the ground,…
Garlic Planting: 2016
Another year, another garlic plan! Last year I got the worst chest cold just after Halloween, which is when I wanted to plant garlic. This year, I thought I would…
Cheesy Garlic Bread
About two years ago I bought the Cook's Country Cookbook (get it here) to round out our cookbook collection. I took it for a test run by borrowing it from…
Garlic Harvest 2015
Many hands make light work, and the kids did a lot of work with the garlic this year. They planted it in the fall. Helped harvest garlic scapes. Farm to…
Garlic is done curing!
We have finally arrived at the last step of growing garlic, storing the cured garlic! While the kids played in the kiddie pool I trimmed and cleaned up the garlic.…
Penn State – Garden in the Parks Field Day (North Park – Pittsburgh, PA)
A few weeks ago, a friend tipped me off on this yard and gardening event happening near us. The Penn State Master Gardeners of Allegheny host Garden in Parks Field…
Harvesting Garlic
Today we harvested our garlic - 40 heads to be exact, only hit one with the shovel! I went back to grab the link from when we planted the garlic…
Guacamole
I joke that I can look out on our deck and name all the sauces we have planted out there. It's not a basil plant it is a pesto plant,…
Everything is coming up Garlic
Garlic is sticking its tongue out while the deer mow down any crocus that comes up. (So NOT cool!) However, the deer won't get garlic because as my daughter points…