Early March Kitchen Garden Update

This weekend I decided to take the remay hoop cover off of the garlic row. I hadn't noticed earlier but Wednesday's snowfall partially flatten one of the metal hoops.So, off the remay came! All of the garlic plants are big enough now that a bit of random nibbling on their leaves by the finches shouldn't bother them too much. Pictured above are the "Nootka Rose" plants. They are continuing to look really good.

Here are two of my "Chesnook Red" plants. I sure hope that hard-neck varieties are suppose to grow like this because all of my Chesnook plants look exactly like this- short and squat!

And then there are my poor "Blauschokker Purple Pod" pea plants.They have been in the ground now for a week and have had temperatures in the mid twenties and snow two nights! Thank goodness they are such tough plants. Mine do look a little worse for wear but should be fine. I was excited to see that the first plant had wrapped its tendril around the tower. If they can all get a hold of the tower they will be able to withstand the wind and bad weather a bit better.