Dixie Chicks

[Beer can]

First yr growing kale, actually never ate it untill this winter, now it is always in the fridge. I have sauteed kale (heavy on the kale) with a little sausage, drop in a grew scrambled eggs, topped with stanky aged sharp chedder, at least four days a week. It has also replaced the lettuce on my daily sandwich at work.
Boy the stuff can grow, even in a pathetic garden. Some of it is doing good, but the spinach is a lost cause, 3" and bolted. Swiss chard and beets look pathetic but I think they will live. I think it's cause we have had rain almost every day for over a month!
The kale is doing great! Peas to, just started flowering behind, 50'row.

 

[Beer can]

Alaskan, do you plant your garlic in the fall?

 

[hennible]

Nice beer can. I've got 3 or 4 types of kale this year, but the red Russian grows like a weed.

 

[Beer can]

I'm going with the Russian next yr. These are dwarf curled vates. Hard to believe they are doing good when the other greens look like their dying and the spinach I'll have to feed the little bit to the chickens.
I think all my fruit trees are going to die, front yard that is usually too dry has been squishy wet for a month, send some of this rain to perchie I say! Lol.

 

[hennible]

If your fruit trees are drowning, I wonder if poking holes ( with something... A really long bolt or chunk of rebar ) to airate the soil would help.
I'm hoping to over winter some kale for my own seed by next fall...

 

[Beer can]

If your fruit trees are drowning, I wonder if poking holes ( with something... A really long bolt or chunk of rebar ) to airate the soil would help.
I'm hoping to over winter some kale for my own seed by next fall...

I doubt it, but good idea, can't hurt I'm going to do it tomorrow, I have rebar. If I could I'd put some drainage in but my hoe is to big and I don't want to pay someone to do it. It is usually wet in the spring, and super dry out there in the summer. I was hoping given time the trees would establish and do good, over a acre of nothing down there but grass, I was hoping for a fruit orchard. If it would stop raining it would help, raining right now, in the forcast for the next week.... :'(

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan, do you plant your garlic in the fall?

It has been so long... i gave up on growing garlic eons ago.... I have a friend up here that has been growing garlic as an indoor plant... Says that it us doing well.

 

[Alaskan]

Sad about the orchard

 

[hennible]

Yup sad
Trees are tough though, you never know... I guess it's to late have planted them in birms... I forgot about birm planting...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Sorry about your trees, beer can... I can't think of any other suggestions than what's already been said... :/