Warning: Tomato Season is upon us. Also green beans.
Rose de Berne, Ukrainian Purple, Moonglow, and Sun Gold. Dinner plans have suddenly shifted.
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Just checking in back on your question. The answer is LOADS of peas.
I just picked this for cooking tonight
And at a guess I’d say I probably have that another 3 or 4 times over still to pick
That photo isn’t great, but basically there are pods everywhere 
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This had better be enough garlic to get me through to 2021. 89 heads in all.
For a nearly effortless crop, garlic has been steadfast and reliable for years. Grows well. Nothing bothers it. Produces its own seed (just replant the biggest, nicest cloves). Keeps well in the basement for months and months. Cannot recommend it enough, fellow gardening humans.
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That’s a whole lot of garlic! Do you need much space for it?
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Given the size of my garden, it’s just a little corner. I plant two double rows, twelve feet long and three feet apart. Each double row has rows six inches apart, with plants at six inches apart and staggered so that I set them down in a zig-zag pattern. (If that makes sense?) I usually plant around 92 cloves in mid-November, bury them beneath a hefty blanket of straw, and don’t need to do much more than water and harvest.
And harvest scapes, since I’ve drifted into all hardneck garlic over the years. A decade or so back, I’d purchased some seed garlic, then supplemented with some really nice heads from a local farmer. After years of selecting the best to replant, I haven’t the foggiest clue what variety(ies) might be hanging up in the garage. If you want to try, and have a farmer you know, you can always ask to buy a few heads of their seed garlic for yourself.
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Garden update!
Tasty edibles:
Today’s harvest, plus evidence that there are decorative plants as well:
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How much space have you all dedicated to vegetables and fruit?
Just out of curiosity… (and possibly because in a couple of years time I’ll be living in a place with a far larger garden–my childhood home–and I am dreaming of having a larger vegetable patch there…)
Based on the very rough method of looking out of my window and guessing, I reckon I have a maximum of 15 square metres dedicated to growing edible plants. AKA most of my garden 
I especially favour climbing varieties, for reasons of space.
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I took a few pics of selected colorful spots of my garden yesterday:
I omitted my lilac colored hibiscus, I’ll have to take more pictures Most of my garden is a green pandemonium, however, of things that grew out of bounds…
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Ours is deliberately pandemonic: a wildflower meadow, which I scythe once a year or so.
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Bubble bees on our globe thistles. Wasn’t meaning to take an action shot, but got photobombed by a second bee. What a prankster.
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The other day I opened the door to the garden and found a slug that looked exactly like a spear of gherkin. Alas, I was too hot to take a picture.
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What are those?
Two different varieties of cabbage white butterfly caterpillars. They have been rudely munching on my romanesco.
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Wiggly little jerks. If you’ve got any Bt, it usually works well.
I’ve been employing the “pick them off and squish them” method.
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I sometimes squish bugs right on the leaves (assuming that’s not part I eat) so they serve as a warning to any others. Like teeny tiny bug heads on teeny tiny pikes outside the teeny tiny castle gates.
(Sorry… my D&D campaign has recently shifted into medieval murder mystery territory.)
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