Garlics on the Way

We got our garlics from Jung today and an e-mail from Frontier saying theirs were in the mail.

Yesterday in the Garden

Dill on a clear blue sky.

Strawberries creeping in from the neighbor's garden (and a lot of young dill).

My artichoke.

I had this kohlrabi for supper last night. I found a recipe for stir-fried kohlrabi with fish sauce and eggs. I thought the kohlrabi would be tough and bitter, but it was sweet and crisp.

Morning glories on trellis. Ornamental petunias, Thai basil, and kale.

Pepper in bloom.

Garden Thief

I got this e-mail today:

"The 5th street garden has lost a number of plants this year and some have showed up in the Augsburg garden. I noticed when I walked past your plot last week that you have a grouping of flowers that are the same one's that 5th street had planted and then they disappeared this year. The flowers are some perennials and some annuals. They are dianthus-pink and magenta and white, caradoon(sage colored pointy edged leaves), snapdragons and California poppies. I was wondering how you came by these plants? If by chance someone gave them to you, maybe they could be returned to 5th street. I would be happy to dig them up and transplant them"

I kindly directed the author of the e-mail to review the pertinent entries in my blog regarding each plant. But who would have ever thought that I would ever have to enter my garden blog as evidence! It does tarnish my garden joy a little.

Buying Garlic

It's a rainy day so we're sitting at the kitchen table with a laptop, a Garlic Bible, seed catalogs, last year's map of the garlic varieties we planted, and a semi-destructed bulb of garlic. Who would have known that many of the garlic varieties are sold out at the beginning of September?