It's nice having all of this cleaning done, because we're now all ready for the garlic harvest! There's quite a bit of it, and we're going to be spending much of the next few days harvesting it and hanging it in the barn to cure. In fact, if it is necessary, we are going to work Saturday and Sunday to finish the harvest and then take off Monday and Tuesday. This will be the plan if the garlic is ready and if Monday and Tuesday are supposed to be rainy (which the forecast is predicting at the moment).The rest of my day involved some light weeding, putting up a few more coyote urine posts, and pulling a few more diseased garlic plants. I am getting worried that the urine is not a practical deterrent for deer. First off, they are still losing plants to munching. But beyond that, we now have 12 urine posts around the perimeter of the farm. This is about a full bottle of urine, and most of it seems to evaporate in about a week. A bottle of urine is over 20 dollars! That's a lot of money to spend each week on canine pee. It would be nice if they could get the electric fence around the perimeter of the farm up and running again, but Patrick indicated that it would be a lot of work to fix it up.
Finally, one other thing I did today was squish some Colorado potato beetle larvae (while wearing gloves, thankfully). They're pretty gross, and quite the destructive pest. I didn't take this picture, but I thought I'd show you just so you had a visual:
Alright, everybody. If you buy local, you can "Beet the System":
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