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Garlic harvest and fast prepping for carrots

The day finally arrived – garlic was harvested this morning. Today is also super hot, so we quick harvested and then fast prepped the bed so we can plant carrots tomorrow morning before it rains. In 90 minutes we’d harvested the garlic and done all the prep. Here is a bit of how.

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Beauty in the rain

I mostly share photos on Facebook, but yesterday’s rain was a great opportunity for photography and I want to share some here as well.

I found many bumble bees that had spent the night in the garden, several trying to escape the rain under cosmos that acted as umbrellas. There were also a few honey bees making their morning rounds among the nasturtium.

Wet bee

Rain falling off cosmos.

Cosmos and parsley after the rain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honeybee in nasturtium.