Potatoes, Onions & Cucumbers OHMY!
Once again i went to the garden with intentions of watering and only staying for twenty minutes..... but ended up staying 2.5 hours.
I went after my morning run and I couldn't decide whether I should shower pre-garden or post-garden. My thought was that even when I go just to water I end up feeling sticky and dirty. However, if I went knowing i could get as dirty as I want I was liable to spend too much time there.... and of course that's what happened.
It's been super hot here, so the garden totally needed the 2 hours of watering especially since i'm planning to skip today. While there I: weeded the leeks and buried them a little more, in hopes that the whites would keep growing up. I think as soon as I get some time (maybe day after prelims) I'll be able to make some potato leek soup. That gets me to the potatoes! I was so worried about these buggers, and the plants pretty much died a week and a half ago. I asked the potato lady at the farmers market and she said it may have been blight, but they may also just be done for the year. I dug up one of the two rows of plants. It was so dirty all down in the mud and SO GRATIFYING. I think i got about 15 potatoes in total and probably 10 pretty big good sized ones. There are some little guys that will be perfect for the soup! I am so excited. In fact, right now the physicist is using the potatoes i gave him to make breakfast potatoes! WOO WOO.
I also pulled up most of the onions that don't have any green stuff sticking in the air. I probably got about 10 onions. The onions are probably my favorite thing in the garden. I cook with onions constantly and the smell of frying onions is probably one of my most favorite smells and reminds me of my house growing up.
I also dug some holes and put some 2x4's into the ground to help support the tomatoes. The cages are majorly leaning, and one plant never even got caged... So now they all have better support!
I also dug up the garlic. It didn't really work. I got pretty much only 2 heads... And a ton of little cloves that never did shit. I put them in a paper bag and have plans to replant them in late september. That'll work, right?
Earlier in the week Friend Kristen and I planted lettuce, spinach, daikon radishes and red radishes. She was real cranky and really into pulling up the biggest, meanest, most stubborn weeds. I did the delicate work of planting that day.
I think my breakfast is ready, but soon i'll post recipes for stuffed zucchini, salsa, & cucumber tomato onion salad.