Week 9 Montana Garlic

We started the final round of transplanting squashes, tomatoes and tomatillos today and pulling the ripest garlic in the spiral patch. This is one of our best garlic crops in the last 7 years thanks to the sometimes tedious but well worth it prime bulb selecting. The scapes left to develop into bulbuls are about to unravel into their full splendor. We walked the maze a few times today before unearthing the garlic gems. We're retaining the spiral maze for the next round of crops as it's one of the most peaceful areas in the garden to walk through.

This week we're heavy into dehydrating garlic scapes and making kale chips for the winter and freezing batches of pesto.Chop and freeze scapes- you'll thank yourself for the extra effort now when food between the 20th parallel north and south is the primary option in a Montana winter.

 This weeks food share includes broccoli, kale, garlic scapes, chard, peas, basil and bunching onions. Anyone interested in extra bags of stir fry bundles, heirloom romaine lettuce, chives, marjoram, scapes, lemon balm, comfrey, edible flowers or borage? This abundance is available for pick up this week.
***For those of you new to storing basil it does best on the counter in a cool place. It will blacken and melt in the fridge.***
Enjoy another beautiful week in Montana!