As usual, I’m late to the game with the garden.  I ordered garlic bulbs a while ago.  Burpee told me the bulbs wouldn’t ship until February, so I ordered bulbs from Turtle Creek and then the next week, I received two boxes of garlic in the mail. One from Turtle Creek and one from Burpee. I threw my hands up and left the boxes untouched on the dining room table.  The next weekend, it rained and kept on raining and despite my best intentions, I kept never quite getting out to the garden to pull up all the basil skeletons and the dessicated tomato vines.  Last week, instead of standing there staring at the sky while Tee gave the yard a good sniff, I made myself pull down the tomato cages and pull out some of the plants.

Today’s goal was just to turn over the area where I planned to get the garlic in the ground. Once I got going, digging in the earth was pretty relaxing and then suddenly I came back to myself standing there with my boxes of garlic to be sown.

I have four different varieties, mostly due to double ordering. This garlic better grow damn well so that I don’t have to buy any for a whole year!  I had to label the pictures because my goal (besides growing something edible) is to keep the varieties straight so I can figure out which ones do well and which ones I like better than others.  Presuming they grow at all.  The Inchium Red cloves had already begun to grow something that looked like it might be a scape.  I wasn’t sure if they should be planted or not, so I did half with scapes and half without.  I must say that I have better hopes for the bulbs from Turtle Creek than those from Burpee.

And now, due to my unplanned foray into pretending to be an actual gardener, dinner is going to be quite late. But, homemade cream of mushroom soup and turkey paninis sound delicious regardless of when they will be served.

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