The late-May early June harvests here in Greeley mainly consist of garlic, strawberries and lettuce, which is fine with me. We’ve been eating salads and putting the lettuce leaves on sandwiches, using the garlic scapes in all sorts of foods and eating strawberries from the vine. We planted the seeds that have to have warm soil like watermelon, cucumbers, peppers and cantaloupe so we will look forward to their harvest as well. So far everything has been growing great using organic techniques. Here’s a few shots from the yard.
Garlic Scape
This garlic is huge! As thick as my thumb
Lettuce in our garden -mostly volunteers from last year
Strawberries straight from the garden
The girlies in the yard
We’ve seen a fox out back in the land behind our house and are a little bit worried for our chickens since they roam freely. So far the fox hasn’t seen them and I hope it stays that way. We also have eagles and hawks all around. I know why some people build chicken runs with chain link covers!
Cassie,
What exactly is a “garlic scrape”?
You are lucky you don’t have squirrels, birds, or other critters to damage your berries and lettuce. We have a zoo out back and have had to experiment to find out what they don’t like so we can have a successful garden!
Hi again,
I read the Washington Post article finally. The scrape is a shoot? That doesn’t sound like a “scrape.”!
Hey Annie,
A garlic scape -not scrape 🙂 is the part of the plant in the first picture that is curling downward. You can use it much like chives except that it has garlicky (is that a word) flavor instead of onion. Most of the strawberries are in the greenhouse, so maybe that is why we’ve had pretty good luck with them since most critterss couldn’t really get in there.
We have a lot of animals that run around in the field behind us like squirrels, skunks, foxes (!), stray cats and lots of birds that fly into the lake there. So far they leave our little yard alone for the most part. Except the stray cats.
Thanks Cassie for the info and correction!. I’ve got two garlic bulbs in this year, so I’ll be looking for those “scapes”! Your greenhouse is a great idea for spring planting. My neighbors and I say that we just put out the smorgasbord for the local critters when we garden!
Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.