{"id":17478,"date":"2013-07-27T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=17478"},"modified":"2013-07-26T22:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:14:57","slug":"never-a-dull-moment-in-this-weeks-garden-in-southwest-idaho-4th-week-of-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/never-a-dull-moment-in-this-weeks-garden-in-southwest-idaho-4th-week-of-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Never a Dull Moment in This Week’s Garden in Southwest Idaho: 4th Week of July, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

What kind of gardener are you?<\/strong> I am the kind that likes to plant and tend, but harvesting is overwhelming. I would rather weed than pick produce, which means I often get distracted when out gathering the harvest. Maybe it is because gathering in only the beginning of hours in the kitchen. Weeding, on the other hand, has a sense of completion and bringing order.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless<\/strong>, it is time to start really keeping an eye on the warm weather crops<\/span><\/em>. My tomatoes are starting to turn pink. Little \u00bd by \u00bc inch cucumbers are growing. Peppers are ripening.<\/p>\n

My garlic<\/strong> was pulled almost 2 weeks ago. I researched storage options again and decided to try to dehydrate some of it, since it only stores optimally for 3-4 months. I do need to remember to set some aside for fall planting. I also just brought in all my patient onions<\/a><\/span>. The tops had mostly dried up and the corn was making them hard to get to. I plan on dehydrating some of them and freezing some, to compare how I like to use them. (click on any photo to enlarge and view all photos at once)<\/p>\n

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leaning carefully over the side and tops of the chest high corn stalks to see the onions for the photo, but I was able to reach between the stalks to grab them –<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dear husband helped<\/strong> me by doing some garlic chopping in the living room theater<\/a><\/span> again. Last year was the first time this processing venue was tried. It takes some of the tedium out of the chopping and some of the guilt out of being a couch potato. Not that I’m calling anyone a couch potato. He uses the term to refer to himself!<\/p>\n

There is still<\/strong> insect control being attempted. I am definitely past the live and let live mentality for those destructive buggers. Some of them I can see and know when I am making a difference, but something is eating huge chunks out of the tops of my beautiful cabbages at night. I would expect a cotton tailed rodent to be more thorough, but I could be wrong. It did seem like the diatomaceous earth slowed them down some, whoever they are. I need to just go salvage what I can and make some coleslaw. I have some other cabbages maturing later that still look very good.<\/p>\n

Some of the other<\/strong> things I have been doing are:<\/p>\n