A warm spring day, and all of the various Allium species are soaking up the sun.  Pictured here are shallots (you can see their baby picture here), and they seem  to be happy.  Some of these I saved from last season, and some I purchased back in the fall from Peaceful Valley, which is a really nice operation.

The garlic – I talk a lot about garlic (here, here, here, and here) – is enjoying the weather, and the onions are likewise doing well.  The bulk of last year’s compost went into this particular part of the garden, so I’m hoping that the nutritional boost will finally give me some respectable onions – I have a hard time finding the right onions to grow, as they are particular about day length, perhaps especially so in my garden.
This is the elephant garlic (first mentioned here), with the garlic in the background.  The elephant garlic is looking robust, and I’m grateful for this – there’s nothing quite like planting something for the first time and having it just work.  No word yet on the ramps or bear garlic.  Cross your fingers.

In other news, I’ve been doing a lot of speaking gigs lately.  Last week, I trained the El Dorado County Master Gardener recruits in the ways of vegetables, today I’m participating in panel discussion for an interdisciplinary class on Sustainability, and on Thursday I get another shot at my Edible Forest Gardening talk (the one that my friend @giuliaforsythe so generously documented here).  I may try to broadcast again, and if I do, I’ll post the URL for the radio stream on Twitter.