Gardening pics, hacks, successes, and or failures

[Sea Chaser]

You wait for the scapes to make a full circle and then cut them off.( around June) They are quite tasty and can be used like green onions. They also keep very well in the vegetable crisper in your fridge, and will last for a couple of weeks. Do not pull your garlic yet the bulbs still need to develop. If you are watering your garlic, stop when you harvest the scapes. As for when to harvest your garlic bulbs, I usually wait until the bottom three leaves die off (mid July depends on the year) You want to wait as long as you can so the the bulb fully develops, but before it starts to open. You can test this by exposing the tops of a few bulbs and checking how tight the cloves are to the stem, when they start to pull away, you know it's time. I hope this makes sense.

Awesome cheers

 

[wildmanyeah]

Man I feel for farmers, to cold, then to hot, then to wet, then to dry

 

[fish brain]

Man I feel for farmers, to cold, then to hot, then to wet, then to dry

That's exactly our lament. We are never happy with the weather.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Mutant garlic this year hopefully means will get big bulbs

 

[Sea Chaser]

Mutant garlic this year hopefully means will get big bulbs

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I was admiring mine today too.

 

[JWS]

Chopped the first of the garlic scapes tonight. Bring on fresh pesto!

 

[wildmanyeah]

anyone ever dealt with flea beetles?, they are absolutely hammering my tomatoes this year.

 

[Breakin"even]

anyone ever dealt with flea beetles?, they are absolutely hammering my tomatoes this year.

I had a bad infestation the last two years. Last year I bought some Diatomaceous earth powder. I mixed it with water and a small amount of dish soap. Sprayed the leaves and it work really well, remove devestated leaves and spray the rest of the plant. Rain can wash D.E. off, so reapply when this happens. I sprayed heavily and no harm to the plants, I can't say the same for the fleas though.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Seems to be working , I used safers end all to kill them all that were sitting on the leaves and then Diatomaceous earth powder

I hate using using chemicals but all the predictor bugs and spiders just don’t seem to be out yet with this colder rainy weather

 

[Salmon Seeker]

First time garlic grower here. Why are the leaf tips going yellow, and is this a problem? Just harvested the scapes today btw.

 

[Breakin"even]

First time garlic grower here. Why are the leaf tips going yellow, and is this a problem? Just harvested the scapes today btw. View attachment 107361

Soil may be to wet.

 

[Salmon Seeker]

Soil may be to wet.

Yep. I'm in Abbotsford. It's been a wet spring. They are in fabric pots so should dry out once it stops raining