Gardeners in the Asylum

[Ahbroody]

Awesome pics.

My green bean plants have gone nuts damn near need a machete.
Lettuces are great also. Nice to pull off some leaves every few days. Squash last year was crazy. This year its slow growing

[Melissa]

great pic!
My peppers are doing great but my lawn, she is dying of sun+high temps.

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by Melissa

great pic!
My peppers are doing great but my lawn, she is dying of sun+high temps.

Same problem is starting to brown parts of my garden. Corn was picked last week, Potato plants have withered, awaiting time for me to dig the tubes up, Squash and Zucs are starting to pass on. Harvested the remaining broccoli last week, pulled plants out yesterday. Corn stalks will be pulled today, and they will go into compost pile with broccoli plants. Green beans starting to show effects of heat, so they may be gone soon. But, Peas and Butterpeas are strong. I picked peas yesterday, and shelled them last night. Have a sack full of cucumbers I picked yesterday, will make pickles tomorrow.

Tomatoes will be numbering in the hundreds in 3-4 days, so canned tomatoes and maybe tomato sauce action by the weekend.

JJ- Your's looks amazing! I see you are still making good use of the re-bar!!!!!

[lilcgrsmkr]

nice garden jamie

We still have late spring weather here but the garden is growing.

[SvilleKid]

Looks great, Lance!!! Get ready to enjoy some fresh veggies!

[jjirons69]

Looks awesome, Lance!!

And yes, I am the Rebar King!

On the list is a nice fence with arbor openings at each end. Not near the top of the list yet, though. At the top right is the raspberry box that was one small plant last year. The broccoli at the bottom right is doing great with the cool weather. The different types of squash are going into production now and soon we will be overwhelmed.

[SvilleKid]

That's a five foot table in foreground. Back table is an 8 foot. In addition to the two totes visible to the left, there's two more slid under the tables that are also covered up with maters! I'll be canning many of them this afternoon. Many of the ones in rear that look like they were picked too soon are actually yellow tomatoes. I'm toying with the idea of canning several jars of yellow tomatoes and/or sauce. Would make an interesting marinara sauce!!



A strange shaped tomato, for sure!

[Chainsaw13]

Nice looking maters there. Amazed you have that many this early in the year.

I finished harvesting 37 heads of garlic last night. In this heat, they only took a couple of days to cure hanging up in my garage. Cut them down, trimmed the roots, cleaned off the dirt and cut away most of the stem.

[363]

Originally Posted by Chainsaw13

I finished harvesting 37 heads of garlic last night. In this heat, they only took a couple of days to cure hanging up in my garage. Cut them down, trimmed the roots, cleaned off the dirt and cut away most of the stem.

Garlic

We planted garlic and it hasn't come up yet. I am tempted to dig it up to see WTF.

[jjirons69]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

We planted garlic and it hasn't come up yet. I am tempted to dig it up to see WTF.

Give it time. From my dealings I think the fall-planted garlic does better. The cold weather gives bigger cloves. I usually harvest around this time of the year when about 1/3 or 1/2 the leaves die back.

[Chainsaw13]

Same here on the garlic. I planted them in November last year I believe. We had such a warm winter, then a cooler than normal spring it really didn't affect their growth much. Now it's been really hot and the leaves were dying off, so time to pull from the ground.

I"m planning to use some of it as seed stock for next years crop again. Anyone know if using the cloves from the larger bulbs will give me larger full heads next year?

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by Chainsaw13

Same here on the garlic. I planted them in November last year I believe. We had such a warm winter, then a cooler than normal spring it really didn't affect their growth much. Now it's been really hot and the leaves were dying off, so time to pull from the ground.

I"m planning to use some of it as seed stock for next years crop again. Anyone know if using the cloves from the larger bulbs will give me larger full heads next year?

That's a question I was wondering also. I plan on using planter areas for a permanent herb garden next year, and will be including garlic. I was wondering if I can just take a whole bulb from the store, break it apart and plant the individual cloves with any hope of success. From the last several posts, it's looking like I should plan on starting earlier than I envisioned, and planting the garlic in the late fall of this year???

I've had an herb bed in the past, but never garlic. And eventually had to kill the bed, because the oregano took over, and smothered out everything else (took about 5 years). This time, I plan on planting in containers, and keeping the oregano well in check!!

[Chainsaw13]

I think you can use stuff from the local store. I'm sure you've kept around a head long enough to have it start sprouting. So it should work. I'm using some stuff my sister gave me, not sure of the varietal. It's not the typical stuff you find at the supermarket.

Google growing your own garlic. I know in my area (MI), we should plant in the fall to have it ready come end of June, early July. I think if I waited till the spring, it wouldn't mature fast enough and die off in the summer heat.

Now that I think about it, I did use some of my larger heads from last year for this years crop. I have a range of small, medium and a few large heads. So I guess it's all a crap shoot on how the plant grows.

[AUguy]

I have been out of state selling plants for 4 months and now that I am back home I finally got to plant my garden. It is not nearly as nice as all of the gardens I have seen in this thread but it serves its purpose.



I have Patio, Better Bush, Early Girl, Roma, Husky Cherry, and Black cherry tomatoes. Some bush burples cucumbers planted from transplants. What you can't see are the squash, zucchini, basil, cilantro, and early hybrid cucumbers that I just seeded. I still have quite a bit of work to do. I have to get my cages and trellises set up. And next week I am going to plant a ton of carrots in containers.

With any luck we will not have a freeze until december like last year and I will actually be able to get a decent yield out of this little patch of dirt.

[jjirons69]

Never too late to dance, William. Looks good!

[SvilleKid]

Got home from a week in Wyoming about 3 am this morning. Spent 2 hours in garden this afternoon. Picked 20 pounds of tomatoes, maybe half that much left in green tomatoes. I have three watermelon that weren't picked by folks watching over house (picked with permission), and have sweet potatoes still in ground. Maybe a half picking of peas left. I'll check sweet potatoes tomorrow, and plan of plowing garden under in next two weeks. Not sure if I'm going to plant a winter crop.

We got back from a weekend away and had some zukezillas. You really do have to pick every day.