Garden Gate at Prairie Road

We harvested our garlic right around the end of July. So great to 'see' what's under there! Harvest SignalsThe ‘harvest signals’ we look for are: plants that are drying down...

Besides our family garden, we also plant a lot of row feet of vining and semi-vining crops in our seed production plots. Our challenge was to come up with low...

They're here! Gotta love this time of the season! Garlic scapes are in season! Garlic scapes are the flower bud of a hardneck garlic plant. The bud is removed in...

The family gardens are mulched for the year! This is the task that signals for me that the big push is over--  we did it! Wanna see? At the end...

And our family garden is COMPLETE! The last of the transplants are all tucked in!Too COLDAfter we transplanted the cold tolerant crops out of the hay bale cold frame enclosure...

We DID IT! We planted all our beans and our sweet corn in the garden. It's been such a cold wet spring. Even though the calendar said it was time...