Garlic has been harvested, cured and cleaned.

Below is a photo of the result. Not enough garlic planted this year, I can clearly see that now! And no really long storing varieties. There will be tears and gnashing of teeth when we run out and have to buy them!

I will have to do better this year with my planting. Just ordered up 8 new varieties today.

Vostani, Tzan, Simoneti, Russian Red, Romanian Red, Red Janice, Italian Late & Brown Tempest. I have never ordered from this supplier, Keene Organic before, so I am hoping they have good quality stock. I really liked that they allow you to order a customized sample pack!

Today I harvested the first fennel from one of my earthboxes.

Last year I grew fennel for the first time ever, in containers, not in earthboxes, but I let it go to far and it bolted and flowered before I got to them, so I just let them be for the bees to enjoy, and the bees did LOVE the fennel blooms.

This year, I’d like to actually get to eat some fennel!

Yesterday I harvested some more earthbox garlic, and here is the yield from one single box of Italian Easy Peel garlic. I am happy with the results!

Everything is behind this year it seems. Spring was cold and rainy. Summer never seemed to want to arrive. Crops were late or failed to germinate. I fell behind in even posting anything to my blog, for a variety of reasons.

But: Here I am again:

This year was my first season growing garlic in earthboxes.

I just harvested the first batch a couple of days ago. Here are some photos:
(Just click on any photo to enlarge it)

I also harvested some garlic grown in-ground at the same time.

I’ll take photos of the results of that harvest later. Right now it is so hot outside, I don’t even want to go outside. It went straight from upper 60′s to upper 90′s with no time to adjust. I like it much better in the cooler weather!

This is the first year I grew parsley in an earthbox. I will certainly be doing that again.

I look forward to enjoying harvesting this through the winter until next year’s harvest.

I have been growing in earthboxes now for a couple of years. It’s a great way to grow. Space efficient, water efficient and it allows you to grow in areas where you otherwise could not – like on your deck, or on a concrete driveway/parking space.

If you don’t know what an earthbox is, see the link at the bottom of this post.

As I get going with growing this season, I’ll be posting more, but here are some results of past years earthbox growing. One of the great things about growing in earthboxes is the very efficient use of water – you don’t waste any water, and as long as you keep the compartment filled, the plants get exactly what they need.

You can grow strawberries in the same box for 3 years.

Peppers grow really well in earthboxes – it’s one of my favorite earthbox crops:

Visit www.earthbox.com for more information about Earthboxes.