We have various outdoor horizontal surfaces we use during harvest season. We need them to dry out certain parts of our harvest before bringing them indoors. The humidity has been ferocious this year.

Butternut bark drying for future dye baths.

Garlic wilting a bit before being bundled.

The hard neck garlic did well, despite being planted in November and then surviving a cold, snowy, and loooong winter. The soft neck garlic had a 15-30% failure rate. We were eating last year’s soft necked varieties until about a week ago. They save better than hard necks.

We planted our onions late, due to the late spring. They had a reduced success rate, much like the soft neck garlic. Some years are just that way. We ran out of onions in March.

The beet crop suffered as well. The leafy greens, on the other hand, are marvelous.

We can grow kale again, having fenced out the rabbits.  We may get a ripe tomato soon. — We can grow kale again, having fenced out the rabbits. We may get a ripe tomato soon.

Kale and onion pizza for dinner tonight:

The elderberries and plums are ripening as well. Michael has been stripping berries from umbels while I bundle garlic and onions.

Having a basement stocked with onions and garlic (and jelly and eggs and...) makes me feel rich.