Onion

I harvested Egyptian onion bulbils. Some Egyptian onions started to grow from the ground. I saw them on 8-10-19.

I planted some onion bulbils in the garden. I rinsed and froze some onion flower stalks after I removed the bulbils. I would make vegetable stock with them.

Garlic

I harvested hard neck garlic bulbs. Some of them have not been harvested for over 3 years. I harvested garlic bulbils on top of the hard neck garlic. Because I let my garlic grow like perennials and I let them go to seeds, the bulbs in the ground are not big.

The garlic bulbils take two years to grow into a full size garlic that split into cloves. Their first year they form a bulb that cannot be broken into cloves. I like to keep my garlic in the ground and use the greens in my cooking.

Sorrel

Sorrel started to grow new leaves. I harvested sorrel and froze 2 gallons bags of it. I made egg, fruit, and sorrel salad once a week throughout August.

Kitchen Garden

At the beginning of August, I worked in my kitchen garden, removed some weeds and mulched with mint. Then I planted Egyptian onions. I transplanted sorrel, wild thyme, and winter savory. My kitchen garden is few square feet bed few feet away from my kitchen widow. It is easily accessible from my front porch. I like to have herbs in that bed I can access while I am cooking. It is my convenient garden.

Front Yard Garden

I removed some weeds and plants from the pathway to make it easy for the kids to know where to walk. In my front yard garden, I removed last year raspberry canes. They produced in summer until July. This year canes started to bud already. Beside the raspberries, I removed the flower heads off of the Egyptian onions and harvested the onion bulbils they carried. The onion bed in my front yard garden produced a lot of onion bulbils that I harvested and stored in the garage to be planted later. I usually harvested them at the end of July and replanted them at the beginning of August. The onion left in the ground start to grow in August. As soon as I saw them growing, I harvested the onion bulbils to replant. I cut a lot of mint in the front yard and cleared the pathway. I used the mint as mulch.

Back Yard Garden

At the beginning of August, I cut down trees along the fence in the back. I harvested some burdock leaves and hung to dry in the garage. I cut down the plants down.

In the back yard I harvested more parsnip seeds and cut the plants down to the ground. I cleared weeds around fruit trees and put chicken wires around the trees to protect them from bunnies. I cleared plants and weeds from pathways in the back yard garden. In the evening, when I let the kids outside to play, I go along with them and work in the garden. I just let them play around me. I got so much down even within an hour. Usually at this time of the year, many areas of my garden are impenetrable.  This year I am able to keep plants off pathways.

Persimmon tree started to fruit in late July. The fruits are still on the tree. Giant mustard set seeds but they are not ripe yet. There are rutabaga and turnips growing in the garden. I didn’t plant them this year. Kale are getting tall in the garden.

This time of the year is the time for me to look at the garden and rethink where I grow my plants. I grow my vegetables in the ground. But I use tree branches and trunks to limit the garden beds and pathways. However in the summer, the plants outgrow to the point they occupy the pathways. Growing in the ground make it easy for me to readjust the beds and the plants to make everything flow better in the garden.