It’s always surprising how we go from that “is anything ever going to grow around here?” thing to “good god, more peas?!” The garden’s starting cranking out food, and we’re already chest-deep in potatoes, peas, strawberries (and more strawberries), broccoli, lettuce, carrots, and onions. Not, you know, literally chest deep. That’d be crazy.
A veritable rainbow of spuds what I picked for lunch. Consider these babies fried. The straw mulching worked quite well. Some of these I didn’t have to dig at all. They were just lying in the mulch. Laying? Whatever.
All the garlic planted last winter. Learned an important lesson there. They do much better in well amended (i.e., soft) soil. The patch I used for them this year was quite clayey, and the bulbs in the harder areas suffered. As much as garlic suffers. Maybe it was fun. I don’t know. In any case, they were small.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Kelly // Jul 3, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Them are some beautiful taters!
2 Wendy // Jul 4, 2008 at 7:45 am
It’s lying.
3 Rian // Jul 4, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Yeah… I’m dum. Cain’t spell too good, neither. Wifey’s always rolling her eyes at my hesitant delivery of that verb and its conjugations. “Your keys? I just lie…aid…ed… them on the table…”
Thanks, Kelly. And durned tasty, too. We’ve had a couple of days of fried potatoes and potato salad so far. Hoowee. Not a glasser among them.
4 Wendy // Jul 4, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Sorry, I work with a lady that proper English is her LIFE and is always correcting me. Don’t you just hate it? I was always getting the lie lay stuff wrong.
Now I’m working on my who whoms.
5 Twinville // Jul 14, 2008 at 1:27 am
Sadly, we are still at that stage of “is anything ever going to grow around here?” due to our freakish cold wet weather here in New Mexico.
Hey! It’s July and it rains all day and doesn’t get above 54 degrees!
Not even our peach and apricot trees are producing this year because of our late frosts in May. And I’m doubting we’ll even get apples, either.
I am seriously dissapointed.
Oh boy, to be at that stage of “good god, more peas?!” would be simply a fabulous dream!
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