Coming back down from the mountains (unexpectedly, for house painting purposes), we returned to heat and humidity. It was a decided difference. But it's been rainy here, thankfully; the rain gauge showed 3 inches in the last week and half! So everything from containers to shrubs are looking good. It's nice to have an opportunity to check the garden-- that was our first order of business. It's a good thing to have had plenty of rain!
One exception were the short-day onions, whose tops seemed to have largely melted away because of some sort of fungus; I harvested all of the bulbs, though, which although small, hopefully will be tasty.
The garlic, surprisingly (or maybe not), had browned up and is largely ready to harvest.
I cut the scapes of the single bed of hard-neck garlic before harvesting; they're probably too fibrous to be good, but we'll see.
The young leeks are doing OK, but also are suffering from too much rain, seemingly somewhat mildew-stressed. I'll either hill them up, or harvest them as 'baby leeks'!
The garlic harvest looks good; here are the results from two of my beds, ready for bundling up to dry tomorrow.
