Gardening pics, hacks, successes, and or failures

[CIVANO]

Garlic
I grow Rocambole (Spanish rioja) Last season I planted a variety called Music. It was said to last longer in storage. It lasted 2 months longer than the Rioja before sprouting. It has a white bulb and is a very nice garlic if you are looking for a new variety.

 

[WHO DAT]

Between the rather mild winter and the last heat wave, our garlic was ready for harvest yesterday. Earliest it has ever been! I'm OK with that as we will now grow a crop of small turnips in the same bed and they'll have plenty of time to grow to full term.

You can see that the lower 3/4 of the plants have browned up in the following picture. The plants have shrunk by a foot and a half in size as they matured:

This is what I look for as to timing the harvest - only a few leaves still green right on top:

The bulbs were all well formed and we again realized a nice average size. Remember, these are all the product of last year's bulbil plantings - that experiment is paying off very well:

Sorted, graded and hung up to cure (the window behind them gets shuttered so they do not see much light):

After having a 4 foot wall of green screening the BarBee / sitting area, it sure looks barren with only the Bubil producers and a couple of late volunteers:

Last year's Bubil crop, next year's seed, is doing rather well:

And this year's Bulbil crop - seed for 2 years down the line, are forming up nicely as well:

We'll be harvesting those within a couple weeks I'd guess, which besides putting the garlic into the cold room after they cure, will be a wrap for this season's garlic efforts.

99 in hand again!

Cheers,
Nog

Hi ; Beauty crop ! curious if you rinse the bulbs after pulling ? Best Regards

 

[wildmanyeah]

Late august garden tour

 

[wildmanyeah]

 

[Breakin"even]

Great time of year, I'm getting a bowl of tomatoes every 3 days now.The Tomatillos are producing as well. I'll be canning Salsa Verde, I'm new to it and love it. Where has it been all my life. Next up, selective logging of the Beet patch, I pickle them. I'm finding bees sleeping on the Tomatillo plants all the Time, I guess they feel safe there, 6 feet up in the air.

 

[tubber]

We saved some seeds from a Costco Crescendo red pepper. Now the plants and fruit are huge and should start turning colour soon.
The sunflower is 13 feet and rising. The head is just forming.
Morning harvest. Pulled one potato to have a look. 6 medium, couple smalls. Not great.

 

[CIVANO]

Great time of year, I'm getting a bowl of tomatoes every 3 days now.The Tomatillos are producing as well. I'll be canning Salsa Verde, I'm new to it and love it. Where has it been all my life. Next up, selective logging of the Beet patch, I pickle them. I'm finding bees sleeping on the Tomatillo plants all the Time, I guess they feel safe there, 6 feet up in the air.
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what variety of tomato is the 1 in the 1st picture - the larger ones?

 

[tubber]

Jet Star

 

[pescador]

how do I stop racoons from stealing my tomatoes? I have a Remington 870....... but the neighbours might notice.

 

[tubber]

You could try dry thorny blackberry branches under all plants.

 

[Breakin"even]

what variety of tomato is the 1 in the 1st picture - the larger ones?

I grew a mix of Best Boy and Big Beef this year from seed, they where labled but the tape peeled off.
Half way through the year, I started fertilizing way more often than the instructions said. I sprincled a couple
of tablspoons of dry powder fert. every two weeks. My thinking with the hot weather and the daily doucing
of freash water that they where getting flushed out of fert. The young tomatoes after the extra fert. ended up
growing to an extra large size and the more mature ones where average size. My tenant has the same plants as me, which she fertilizes even less than the instruction.
Her plants look healther than mine, (greener) but her tomatoes are tiny. I also used alot of compost in the soil and I
twice top dressed with compost during the season.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Anyone cover crop your garden befs

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Cover Crops Seeds

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[nicnat]

You could try dry thorny blackberry branches under all plants.

lol the raccoons come right thru the blackerry bushes along my back fence but they leave my tomatoes alone, I have a sacrificial grape vine for them , they love grapes lol

 

[Gong Show]

Anyone cover crop your garden befs

?

Cover Crops Seeds

Cover crops seeds are also known as green manure seeds, and include grasses, legumes, and a few varieties of flowers. These are planted to cover the soil sur...

www.westcoastseeds.com

I did it one year. You have to much more motivated than I was when it comes time to turning it over enough to stop it from growing. Every bunch of few or more years in between crops?

 

[wildmanyeah]

I did it one year. You have to much more motivated than I was when it comes time to turning it over enough to stop it from growing. Every bunch of few or more years in between crops?

yeah that’s what I was afraid of it turning into a weed fest

 

[tubber]

Payoff time. Peaches and limes aren't from the garden, but the rest is.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Payoff time. Peaches and limes aren't from the garden, butView attachment 70171 the rest is.

thos slicing tomatoes or for sauces

 

[tubber]

thos slicing tomatoes or for sauces

Mostly slicing, but we have about 10 San Marzano plants which are a longish sauce tomato. We make sauce and out of slicers, too.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Just made some refrigerator pickles out of some late season deformed cucumbers

 

[wildmanyeah]

Mostly slicing, but we have about 10 San Marzano plants which are a longish sauce tomato. We make sauce and out of slicers, too.

o bought some san Mariano seeds for next year, how do they come pare to romas