Peppers and Garlic

Due to my lack of time, I am able to get out into the garden but not update the blog, and the pictures I do take, take me weeks to get up.   Last week on Aug 2^nd I cut off 3 garlic scapes from the bulbils I planted this spring.  I was surprised to find scapes on them due to their tiny size at planting.  They do however get full sun and lots of water.  I have harvested the garlic I planted in the bottom bed  and anticipate harvesting this garlic in the next week or so once it starts to die down.  I have found a few different opinions on when to harvest it( the bottom 3 leaves are dead, 40% of the plant is dead, 60% is dead)  so I think I will just pull a few plants at a couple different stages to figure out the best time to harvest them.

The plant in the middle back has the scape, and as you can see it curls off to the left of the picture.

My banana peppers are dong very well, and I am quite pleased with them. I have 6 plants in the garden that all have 4-7 peppers currently on them, and then 6 more in containers.  A couple of the plants in containers might be cal wonder golden  but not really sure as that variety didn’t germinate well at all,  less than 10% success rate.  And then I had some plants die in the pots.  I only have one red pepper so far but the fact that they are banana peppers eating them when they are yellow is probably not a problem.  But I will let some change color to have a variety.

Those are 2 plants side by side, I added at the end of a row of peas.

Thats my red pepper  and then the bottom picture is the plant at the end of the row.  It needed a tomato cage because during the heavy rain about 3 weeks ago it got take out.