Good. We have just harvested lots of fat and delicious garlic. Maybe I don’t want to share these with the vampires, tell them to grow their own! They get too much publicity lately anyway. Vampires just ain’t what they used to be!
Once clean of all the dirt, these were plainted into ropes and hung in the new storeroom, Le Cave. Is that right ViV? Le Cave or La Cave.
Charlotte and Peghorn are at war.
Peghorn is getting very fat and shiny on baby pig food.
And the Shush sisters have begun to move him along. Frequently, I hear the cackle and flutter of hens accompanied by the breathy chuckle of little pigs. 
The lavender is coming out. This week I shall make lavender jelly. But not too much because this is the second favourite flower of the bees. 
Lucerne or alfalfa is the first! Or maybe borage I shall ask. Though bees are not big talkers. 
Is that rain coming? No. We are still having a lot of warm wind and it is full of dust as it dries out the cracking fields. The sun just keeps baking down from the rainless sky. 
Someone is showing off!
Good Morning. Daisy has begin calling to me the last few mornings. Standing at her milking parlour gate. So i feel a little hurried! Yesterday all together she gave three and a half gallons of milk. This will steadily increase as she gets stronger. In a few days we will strain some and see if it is ready for us to drink. That will be a wonderful moment, as it has taken us almost three years to raise our own house cow. A long time dream this one.
After chores, TonTon and I are off to see the Old Codger this morning and take him his walking stick. I believe he is in the last week of his stay at the retirement home. Training him from the walker to the walking stick will make him a lot safer getting about the house. So cross those fingers again. I will know more this afternoon.
Take care. Have a great day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
68 responses to “Do you want help with your vampires?”
Now I’m a fan of vampires, so no thanks to your garlic! but that lavender…mmmm – I wish it was a smell-o-blog!!!
Christine
wouldn’t it be amazing if we could share scents! the lavender is all along the garden path so we brush it as we walk.. beautiful.. c
Good looking garlic. I think it would just encourage vampires to improve their cooking – a little more garlic in the blood sausage and so 🙂
(laughter!!) morning roger.. c
Love the garlic…ours should start coming out in a couple of weeks. Just cut the scapes this weekend.
Truly wonderful about Daisy adopting the new routine so well! I’m sure she feels SO much better after the milking that the relief is it’s own reward…
I can imagine, she is certainly a very calm cow while in the milking parlour.. c
What can you grow though that will keep zombies at bay? They are the monster du jour nowadays 😉 I’ve never seen fresh right out the ground garlic before – cool! Morning, Miss c t
Morning Miss T.. nothing for zombies i am afraid, you are on your own with those .. evidently decapitation is the only way, shall i lend you my cabbage knife? c
It’s all wonderful, especially the garlic and the lavender. I didn’t get round to planting garlic last winter – so no homegrown bulbs for us this year!
Your lavender pics are spectacular C. My, our Daisy is getting into her routine super fast!
Have a happy visit with the old Codger.
🙂 Mandy
Lavender Jelly? Tell me more!
Morning Celi, the garlic is looking great – mine has rust, but it should still be fine to store. right off to do some work…..
Yes, I want to know too.
Up until you started mentioning “cups” I thought you were going to hand milk her! I was quite surprised to find out otherwise! Not that I know anything about it. Obviously!
Morning Mandala, I am a writer as well as a farmer, so some of my old fashioned ideas have had to take a back seat to good old modern time saving. !! c
i guess it is time for me to harvest my garlic too. will you be making your own butter from daisy’s milk?
Absolutely. I am very much looking forward to the grass fed butter! YUM! c
Currently harvesting garlic scapes, bulbs should be ready for harvest soon, cannot wait. Your garlic were harvested at the perfect time. I frequently am a bit late and end up with cracks on many
Hanging garlic always makes me chuckle. Um, you know the vampire thing. Anyway that’s one good looking rooster!
La cave. Those piggies are going to lead you quite a dance, I reckon. Lovely lavender. I’m in the middle of making bread, and have just made a cake and forgotten to put in the baking powder! It looks like a biscuit. It should taste OK, though.
Oh that is awful when you forget something like that.. ah well.. La cave.. thank you! ViV c
Good afternoon C, and to all on the farmy! I’ve never been able to successfuly grow garlic. My dream would be to grow Elephant Garlic! Do you dry all of it, or do you use some fresh?
I will use the ugly ones fresh and hang all the rest to dry, just cutting it off as we need it! Elephant garlic.. i miust try that next year!! Morning misky! c
Liz has enough vampire stuff on tv nowadays that I think I could use a barrel full of garlic to keep the vamps away around here. 😉 Hope you had a great weekend C!
I love whole (bulb) slow roasted garlic on some buttery toast – yum yum. Only trouble is you have to phone everybody you want to talk to for a week afterwards 😦 MY aloes are in full bloom and covered in (somebody else’s) bees feasting away 🙂 Have a good week. Laura