Garlic Time!

The garlic is actually having a tough year.  Last year we stopped watering it for two weeks before harvest, but this year the garlic is getting flooded by the concreted sprinkler head on the other side of the fence (Note for those of you living in Boise:  if you are ever considering hiring Butte Fencing, just take a sledgehammer to everything in your yard.  It will be cheaper and there will be less "collateral damage.").  So, we've put down plastic to stop the water from soaking in, and are just trying hard to dry it out as we can. 

This year we have 9 varieties of garlic, so in an effort to keep them straight

I'm using yarn.  Last year we had two, and I replanted both of those (I think--we really have trouble telling them apart) as well as 7 new ones in the sampler.  The red yarn is to identify the Romanian Red hardnecks.  The hardnecks are much smaller than the heads I got in the mail, so I think we let the scapes get too big or something, but the real failure so far is the elephant garlic

which is not only smaller than the softnecks from last year's crop, but it has these strange little offshoots.   They are sort of hard & really look like garbanzo beans.  Very odd--we're going to have to ask the garlic people on that one. 

And........

our first tomato!  It's huge in the picture, but this is a little cherry tomato from our Sweet 100 plant.  There was another one slightly orange, so we might get to split a little cherry tomato again tomorrow, but nothing else is even remotely close to red.  I know.  I've already been out this morning to check......:)