Welcome back to what have you. I am Rachel Djankovic. I'm Becca Merkel. Today we sit looking over a cow pasture. Yeah, this is a new venue.

A new venue.

New take.

Hot new take.

Yeah.

And it smells like a cow pasture right outside.

It's pretty great.

It's basically a mud pit with cows in it is what it is right now.

But not as bad as it is sometimes.

It's a little drier.

It's a little bit of the springtime turning a corner into pleasant weather.

The ground is not like fully a sopping wet sponge like it was a couple weeks ago.

Yeah.

It's slightly dry.

But it's also that perfect wonderful time when you go out to plant things and it just easily digs and you forget that in there's a potential for everything

the shovel will just skitter across the top of the ground the shovel will chip a tooth when you try to get a get a bite of soil exactly and you're like well it turns out i don't weigh enough to get a bite of soil. Exactly. And you're like, well, it turns out I don't weigh enough to get this shovel.

I have been having a time because out in my garden last year, I had planted garlic.

And you plant garlic in the fall, you know, like a bowl but then it yeah comes up and does

its little thing and two years ago I had ordered special hard neck varieties of garlic and

planted it and then I saved it was really delicious too and I saved some and replanted them the

next year so like look at me sustainable Just you can't even believe it. But then what I proceeded to do was be out of town during the time when I should have cut the escapes off. How, when do you cut the scapes off? How big should they be when you come up? I think when they just get up there and you see them and they're curly and whatever.

Okay, but like what length is the time when you do it? Well, it probably depends on the different varieties. Mine, I have garlic that's like this tall. No, but the escape is the bloom. So the garlic is this tall, but it won't. No, I think it's, I'll have to go look at them. No, it won't have the bud till later. So it's just the blue that you're trying to get out.

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