My 32 square feet of hardneck garlic (approximately 100 plants) have sent up flower stalks, or scapes. I removed most of them, and we’ll eat as many as we can. They have a taste somewhere between garlic and an onion and are a nice treat in a salad or stir fry.
Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
21 May
The Tomatoes are putting on size
The tomatoes are starting to grow well for me in their new boxes. As you might be able to see I have planted each one with two basil friends to keep it company, and nature has planted several annoying wanna-be friends in there too. The wire tomato cages are only there to steady the plant [...]
16 May
Garlic getting pretty tall
My garlic is 18 or 20 inches tall now and seems to be growing great! I expect to see the scapes show up any day now. It looks like I need to weed it again. I should have taken the time to re-cover that ground with grass clippings. Ah, well.
4 Apr
A garden 5 years in the making
Main Garden Herb Garden Fruit Trees and Bushes 2012 It really is a labor of love, and not some passing hobby. Why do you garden? What do you grow?
31 Mar
The Peas haven’t reached the trellis yet
This early spring probably allowed the peas to germinate much faster than normal, but they still have quite a bit of growing to reach the bottom of the trellis that I want them to grow on. Sunday and Monday will have temperatures as high as 90 F, so that ought to confuse these cold-loving plants. [...]
13 Mar
Yard and Garden work
This was a busy weekend. In addition to lots of family stuff I was able to get outside for several hours to work on things that must be done before Spring. Built the new raised center boxes for 3 more beds Bought the lumber for three more trellises Transplanted a bed of year old strawberry [...]
14 Apr
Herb Bed Populated
My wife planted out the herbs that I started indoors several weeks ago. This bed is literally 15 feet from our kitchen door. Thinking of fresh chives on a baked potato makes my mouth water.
24 Mar
Oh Sweet Basil!
Basil is too important to put just in one place. This will be growing in my wife’s herb bed, of course, but we’ll also have some basil in each of the 3 kid garden beds too.
23 Mar
Garlic Chives
My wife is going to have a 14 by 2 foot herb bed near our back door. These garlic chives are one of many things she will have growing there this summer. They already smell GREAT.
4 Feb
Garden Layout 2010 – 3 new beds
As I mentioned in a previous post, I plan to add a little more space to the garden this year. The raised beds numbered 10, 11 and 12 will be new this year. Last year I added 7, 8 and 9. (But they were numbered differently.) The plan in the graphic rotates every crop to [...]
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