Our May garden

This our May garden in panoramic view. March, April, and May are cool months in Madison so things get going to a slow start. Garlic, shallots, and onions love the cool weather, though. Our garlic is growing like gangbusters. Up close it looks like corn stalks:

farther away:

Onions are picking up. This year I started the onions from seed indoors in pots back in February under lights and transplanted them to the garden in the first of April. They grew sluggish for a couple of months. Our main storage onion is Copra. We chose this variety because is has a 12 month storage life. We go through a lot of onions and a lot of garlic for that matter and we plan to grow and store the majority of our onion and garlic for the year. We grew shallots last season and we were surprised how easy they were to grow. Shallots are incredibly sweet and complex. Shallots remind me of a combination of garlic and leeks. Onions are in the foreground and the shallots are near the back:

Our Fall Spring spinach is doing well. We have already harvested over 15 pounds of spinach since late March. This crop is kinda of a fluke. This was supposed to be our Fall crop, but I started it late and it never really picked up. On a whim, while I was covering our garlic with mulch for the winter last November, I decided to cover the spinach up in hopes I could get an early spinach spinach crop. Well it worked and we will be repeating it this fall:

Our peas are doing very well. Ruthie and I worked in the garden this past Saturday and the peas are really picking up. They have been sluggish over the past few weeks, but since the temperature picked up they have really picked up. I noticed on Saturday that they are getting ready to flower so we should have peas in a few weeks: