Summer Moon of the First Harvests
Cut the tops off onions today and spread them out on a large screen with the few garlic 
bulbs ready for harvest. They’ll rest now in the shed for two weeks, drying further for storage. Yellow onions keep pretty well. Sweet, red and white not so much. The garlic we’ll cut into small slices and dry. Garlic flakes dried retain flavor at a remarkable level. We will buy garlic this year to dry since our crop was smaller than expected.
Javier and his crew are in the orchard, clearing out grass and preparing to lay down double landscape cloth and plastic, then mulch. In an interesting sidenote one of the laborers is white, hired by Javier I assume from a day labor place.
Today was to be a bee inspection day but Javier and his crew are in the orchard so not a good time to rile up the colony. I’ll get out there tomorrow.
