Why it's OK to be Lazy....

....occasionally.

Letting the broccoli bloom attracts bees!

Broccoli

....in all it's glory!

We have the better-looking than anything in the grocery store speciman...

...the going to seed even tho it hasn't been above 70 degrees plant...

....and lastly, the barely 6 inches tall what the heck ?!?

They were all planted in the same soil, the same day.....heck they all came from the same six-pack.....sigh.

Garlic

We planted a 4x8 bed full of garlic (foreground).....and it all came up....eek! We really weren't too sure what would happen here. I was less than the purist on this one, bought garlic bulbs at the grocery store for 5/$1....considerably less than the organic at $3/bulb. We'll see how they compare when we start pulling them up.

We don't do anything special with our garlic, other than amending with homemade compost. Because our winters are fairly mild (freezes occasionally, but no snow) we don't even have to cover them. Tho we did put another hefty helping of compost on top after the cloves went into the ground. The brown tubing is part of our drip irrigation system, but during the winter we don't use it at all. Even in a drought year we get just enough rain to not have to water our winter gardens except when the plants first go into the ground and maybe a little in the spring as it starts to warm up. This year we've been happily drenched by storms and tho I hesitate to say the drought is over, I'd like to think we're at least on our way! These were planted at the end of November and we hope to harvest in May, if only so the summer crops can get started :)