Doing what Dirt Does

We went up to the farm again today to check on progress, and the dirt still is doing what dirt does. It looks like dirt. It smells like dirt. Gretel tried it and it tastes like dirt too, very tasty dirt actually.

We have a few weeds popping up, but as of yet nothing we planted has turned up. So today instead of admiring our new crops as we planned, we dug in the potato beds and installed our first non-raised bed. We also planted red, yellow, and white onion sets, as well as an entire row of garlic.

So I hope that people like garlic, because we may have a lot of it. Fortunately, it tastes good in food. It looks nice hanging braided in the kitchen. It might even make for good Christmas gifts. We'll have to see about that, you can let us know. In addition to the garlic growing at the farm, we have garlic planted in our backyard that we borrowed from Mike's garden in Newport. This will be year two for that patch, so hopefully we'll have a big crop!