What did you do in the garden today?

Couldn’t resist. Pulled one garlic head. Looks good, I guess. Planted March 21, so about 3 months ago. It is Early Italian garlic, spring shipped, from John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds.

Now what do I do with it? Does it need to cure, or can it be used fresh?
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I use mine fresh all the time! It's super easy to squeeze the garlic out when it's not dried!
 
My chickens ate a perfect Carrie mango this morning. I found a nice ripe carrie mango that fell into my fruit bag, so I took it out and set it down and used the fruit bag on another green mango. I notice that there were a lot of mangoes that needed to be covered, so I went in the house to get more bags and when I came back the mango that I set down was eaten clean to the seed. My chickens are a pack of hooligans!

I was going to puree it with a diabetic friendly sugar (Pure Cane brand) and use it to flavor my home made frozen yogurt. One mango with 1 cup of Pure Cane can flavor 32 oz of plain yogurt.

I ordered these 24 count silicone ice cubes from amazon today. I plan on putting the frozen yogurt cubes in my bullet cup blender with heavy whip cream or plain yogurt to make soft serve smoothies. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08925YDGJ/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_image_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
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More info about Egyptian Walking Onions, with some pictures.

I needed onions for a recipe, and have used all the "regular" onions from last year, so I dug 4 clumps of EWOs. I took the kitchen shears out with me, so I could cut off the roots and parts I didn't need. (I don't need any green onions atm, and they don't keep as well. Plus, I can have fresh any time.)

The 4 clumps were chosen by these criteria: Are they big, and are they in a crowded spot? By big, I look at the stem coming out of that particular onion. The bigger the stem, the bigger the onion.

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The 2 bottom ones are big, for EWOs. The one above it is on the smaller side. You lose some of the size when you take off the outer layers to clean them up.

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About the topsets... sometimes they will grow another topset. That's what this one did, and instead of bulbils, it looks like it's trying to flower. (Some of the topsets will do that; never tried to save seed from these.)

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Close up of the flower.

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When you try to slice them like you would a regular onion, the layers tend to separate, as they aren't very thick. I slice them about 3/16-1/4" and call that good. With the bigger bulbs, you can sometimes see that it's trying to form a new bulb. That's how the clumps grow more onions. So the individual bulbs won't get much bigger than the big ones I had in the picture. They will then split and form another bulb.
I want to try these so bad too! Right now I have a couple pots of regrown store onions, a pot of native i'itoi onions and some red beard bunching onions seedlings...but those Egyptians look delightful!
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These are the native onions below...not much to look at right now! 🤣 Not sure if I like them. They go dormant this time of year and anytime they get thirsty. They do taste good, but they're tiny and spend too much time looking like a pot of just dirt.
Funny story bout the pole people. They were carolers a lady at our old church had made and all dressed up for winter and had wire hangers on sides of their heads bent to hold hymnal pages! Our storage unit got mice and there went the cutesy clothes...but they were like 15 yrs old ..or more!
So when the coop was being built I was scrounging foe every piece of wood I could and kept em...naked!
Then they just sort of ended up hanging out with the chickens...still naked!
But when all the sweetpeas starting coming up I thought that would be excellent clothing! I had flower pots for their heads but never got stuff put in em so of course they blew off.
I need to work with the sweet peas to get em growing up and round em...they've put on so much growth and I've been focused on tomatoes cucumbers and squash...
Guess it's time they stopped being so brazen out their all naked and cover up! 😆
They're the cutest naked people I've seen...well, except for my kids when they were still babies. ❤️
Can't seem to get the pic in the right place! The below pic is my dormant native onions.
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I pruned my tomatoes yesterday. Cut off everything from about 8-10" down, plus any suckers I saw. There's air flow there now, that's for sure. I need to water them today. I gave them a nice drink on Monday, but there hasn't been any rain in a week, at least. Maybe if I water today, it'll rain like they say it might Saturday night.
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I wish i knew how to recognize tomatos suckers. Learning about the cucumber suckers and i think thats going good. Hey, have fun! Right?( Unless you desperately need the tomatoes because you refuse to spend 2.50 a pd any longer)!
 
I wish i knew how to recognize tomatos suckers. Learning about the cucumber suckers and i think thats going good. Hey, have fun! Right?( Unless you desperately need the tomatoes because you refuse to spend 2.50 a pd any longer)!

Suckers are the little branch coming out of the plants armpits, lol. I don't trim mine out though, they produce more tomatoes. I did just clean up and trim plants that were falling out into the walkway but I didn't focus on where the stems originated, just whether I could string them up and keep them off the ground.
 

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