The afternoon of April 4, 2025. This is a sample of what the garlic space looks like in the vegetable garden. The soil probe is eight inches into the soil. Most of the garlic is waiting for warmer soil before surfacing. These two garlic shoots have experienced freezing temperatures. This is a no-dig garden. #gardening, #minnesota, #zone4b, #garlic, #growyourown, #fermentation
April 2, 2025. It was planting day for the tomatoes. We held ourselves to twenty starts. These tomatoes aspire to be tasty. The soil blocks worked well. The outside world transitioned from snow covered to clear again today as last nights snow gradually melted. #gardening, #growyourown, #minnesota, #Zone4b, #tomatoes, #kasundi.
@mikeswimm The native plant germination and starts process is great for mental health. There are some slow varieties. We started scarlet globe mallow from seed of 2023. One plant made it. It is a very small mallow. The plant was expanding fall 2024. Perhaps propagating from a rhizome will be successful. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #Zone4b.
Saturday February 8. The Dark Times of the feudal tech lords are close. Very close. We are fortunate. We hope we can plant, nurture, and harvest these seeds and others. We hope the climate change doesn’t desiccate them. We will start the Yellow Parma Onion, Ruby Red Onion, and Jaune du Poitou Leek soon. #growyourown, #gardening, #minnesota, #nodig, #compost, #Vermiculture, #zone4b, #solarpunk.
January 19, 2024. The garlic ferment is on day four. The heady scent of fermentation that echoes roasting garlic is just starting. The last of the 2024 crop is all in the fermentation vessel. This is an annual gardening milestone! The individual garlic cloves release the skins easier after a few minutes of blanching. #fermentation, #garlic, #kimchi, #minnesota, #growyourown, #gardening, #nodig, #Zone4b.
January 6, 2025. Fermented hot sauces are still important. This is Sosu from the Kirsten Shockey book. The paste is the balance of our 2024 hot peppers, fermented 2023 garlic paste, palm sugar, and fish sauce. The fermentation started October 24th and ended today. Some of the hot peppers were sun dried so the flavor is wonderful and complicated. It’s got more heat and less sweet than gochujang. #fermentation, #minnesota, #growyourown, #gardening, #nodig, #zone4b, #garlic, #Gochujang.
November 25, 2024. The fermented leek paste is lovely and bitter today. It will ferment on the countertop until it tastes right. We enjoyed leeks for paste, sauerkraut, and roasting over the last week. We will be smart in 2025. The leek harvest will be spread out over September, October, and November. And we will copy the Charles Dowding leek planting ideas. Gardening includes optimism. #minnesota, #zone4b, #fermentation, #growyourown.
@feinschmeckergarten. I support the carrot anchar. There will be more carrots in the garden next season, long rows with sunshine. I will thin them. They will grow deep orange roots. #nodig, #minnesota, #Zone4b.
The first time for us leeks are still green and robust. We have a dozen. They are still growing bigger to my eyes. How much freezing does it take to damage the crop? We have had a few frosty mornings in southern Minnesota. @Broadfork, @Iva852, @feinschmeckergarten. #nodig, #growyourown, #minnesota, #Zone4b, #pollinators.
