Garlic. Radishes. Yup.

We picked scapes nearly a month ago.  It's really getting close to harvesting. Garlic is a Fall plant, Summer harvest guy.  You need to get it in the ground before the ground is so frozen solid you can't dig into it.  I'll do more on garlic planting as the time comes.  In mid June-ish garlic will shoot up scapes.  This is what would produce seeds, and yeah, you could grow garlic from the seeds, but it would take you a LONG time before you got a decent head of garlic (Garlic is planted by dividing the head into cloves and planting the cloves.  Each clove will produce it's own head.  Magic!)  So we take the scapes off when they've got about 2 curls in them.  ROAST em up and eat away.  

Radishes are just so pretty!

Other things besides gardening...

While our garden has been growing and growing, there have been a few other things on our plate this Spring.

Like for instance...
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Getting Married!

Cutting Rhubarb for Pies

And to prep for that we made PIES!  (we had 21 wedding pies all hand made with love, and at the end we had only 4 left over!)

Turning that rhubarb into strawberry rhubarb pie!

Pie Crusting the Pie

The Pie Table!

Pre-Wedding Research for the Perfect Wedding Beer!

Some Relaxing Had to be Thrown in too!

Garen pics will show up soon!

A Sunny Morning

Sprouts and Flowers

Our sprouts are getting bigger, there are dandelions in our yard, and while on a Sunday afternoon hike in the woods we found lots of Spring flowers.  We're getting there folks.

Sprouting tomatoes (foreground) and squash (background)

Dandelion 

Spring Beauties

Dutchman's Breeches

Dogtooth Violet/Trout Lily

I've Got A New Pet

First it looks like this.

And after a bit of mixing and rising and baking it looks like this.

It lives in the refrigerator mostly and eats flour.  No walks, or picking up of poop with this one.  It is called "The Beast" in our house.  And, boy, does it ever taste good!

We got the sourdough starter from my mom, who works in a bakery.  The starer has been alive for years, around 20 I'm thinking.  Though a dog seems like a fun idea sometimes, and we may get there at some point in our lives, this is a great pet for us right now.

But Maybe That Watched Pot Does Sprout!!

Only 3 days, THREE DAYS, after starting our seeds we've got babies!!  The Tatsoi, Chinese Asters and Chocolate Peppers have sprouted.

Chinese Aster

Chocolate Pepper

A Watched Pot...

...never sprouts.  But mannnnn, is it fun to peek at.  A lot.  Over and Over.

Our pile of seed packets followed my friend and I, and her little boy, to the back yard for some dirt and digging and discovering, rediscovering, how incredible seeds look.  And just how satisfying it is to have your hands dirty from getting them in their little pots and going. 

Planting Day!

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back yard + seeds + nice spring morning = happy.

Squash(2 winter, 1 zucchini).  Water Melon.  Tomatoes (4 kinds).

Flowers.  Tatsoi.  Chocolate Peppers.

Some crazy cool Buff Daisy seeds.

Books and Seeds and Gloves!  Oh MY!

Under the grow lights and ready to go(grow - hee hee)!