My day started up with a meeting at Bay Hay & Feed after church to collect a head of Inchelium I had acquired through a FB garden group. It was a fairly small head but I think this variety does tend to be on the small side. Inchelium is a soft neck local (to WA state) variety that is said to be mild enough to be eaten raw. We shall see about that. It was one I had been looking for to add to the mix this year.

Garlic occupies much time in the garden. It was only a few months ago I was harvesting and here I am planting again. I may regret all of the space I am giving to this one veggie (or is it an herb?) next year but for now I am feeling good about it. I ended up forgetting the head of Music the fellow gardener shared with me. I’ll end up putting that one in early next month. For now I have two short (4-5′) rows each of Turkish Giant (hard neck, beautifully purple striped huge heads), Inchelium (softneck mild a long keeper), Lorz Italian (an artichoke type of hard neck garlic), Silver White (softneck, another long keeper with huge heads). I also planted 9 of the largest potato onions from the recent harvest.

As for greens, I planted a mixed salad greens packet (Gourmet Blend) from Ed Hume, a packet of Roquette and some Bloomsdale Longstanding spinach.