Looking for a quick and easy dinner idea? Try this Garlic Scape Pesto Pasta recipe - make it with any kind of Pesto! A simple but delicious dish that's perfect for any night of the week! Why You'll Love this Pasta Recipe Pesto pasta is a versatile and flavorful dish that is so easy to make! Even if you don't have garlic scape pesto, you can make this pasta with the pesto of your choice and … [Read more...]
The Garlic is Hanging to Cure
We have had several very busy days. The great news is the 2016 Garlic Harvest is done! 8000 plants (3 varieties of Hardneck Garlic) have been dug, partially cleaned, bundled and hung to cure. And we are happy...and tired. Here are just a few pictures. There are about 4000 plants hanging here in the barn. It's a gorgeous sight! I am loving nothing more than … [Read more...]
Prepping a New Garlic Bed
I'm increasing the amount of garlic for next year. Since now is the time for planting garlic, I've been working on prepping a new bed. First, out comes any weeds that were growing. This bed was supposed to be a new spot for the strawberry babies, but that didn't happen this year. For someone who put in a much smaller garden this year, I sure have not been able to get a bunch of … [Read more...]
Cutting the Garlic Scapes
The Garlic plants are sending up their scapes now - it's important to cut the scapes off. This will allow the plant to put all its energy into making the bulb bigger. That's what we want - the biggest Garlic bulbs we can get! Each plant sends up one scape. Here's a closeup of what the scapes look like. They're pretty funky looking and … [Read more...]
Garlic and Jerusalem Artichokes
Remember all that garlic I harvested last year? We had hundreds of heads and while we have eaten a lot of them (we love Garlic!), we still have lots left. We didn't bring any with us down south because I wasn't sure they would let us take them over the border. Even if we had gotten across with them, the veggie patrollers at the California border would likely not let us through with … [Read more...]
Garlic Scape Basil Pesto
Here's a recipe for Garlic Scape Basil Pesto - perfect for pairing with pasta! You probably already know just how much we love Garlic here in our Valley. We grow several hundred heads of it each year and as I type this, we still have two large flats of Garlic left from our 2011 Harvest. No worries, we will eat every last one of them. It's not uncommon for us to each have a whole head at dinner … [Read more...]