What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

I'm off all allergy meds and I am miserable today. I feel like a spacey, congested, slug. I feel your misery :::::

Back atcha. And I can’t breathe when I lay down

 

[TJAnonymous]

I'm going to have to spray my thornless blackberries with a copper fungicide at the crack of dawn tomorrow. Whatever blight is attacking them has been relentless. I'm actually worried that I may lose both plants....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention.... this morning when I watered the garden I noticed that a some of my potatoes are actually exposed out of the ground. Anyone had this happen before? I don't think they are ready yet though....leaves are all still green.


And anyone have any recommendations on what to plant in a raised bed AFTER onions and garlic?

 

[Duckpip]

Some pictures of my plants:

Red bell pepper and English long cucumber:

My strawberry that's coming along pretty nicely:

And my pea pod that I can't wait to eat!

 

[Duckpip]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention.... this morning when I watered the garden I noticed that a some of my potatoes are actually exposed out of the ground. Anyone had this happen before? I don't think they are ready yet though....leaves are all still green.


And anyone have any recommendations on what to plant in a raised bed AFTER onions and garlic?

GrowVeg on YouTube (they also have a website) has a good tutorial on potatoes. I'm not sure if it would exactly help with what your problem, but I still reccomend checking it out.

 

[Acre4Me]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention.... this morning when I watered the garden I noticed that a some of my potatoes are actually exposed out of the ground. Anyone had this happen before? I don't think they are ready yet though....leaves are all still green.


And anyone have any recommendations on what to plant in a raised bed AFTER onions and garlic?

Although not companion planting, per se, I’ll guess that turning the bed from one thing to another (garlic or onions to something else) immediately might still qualify. So, in my handy chart for companion planting it indicates that beans and peas are “Foes” to onion and garlic. In addition, sage and asparagus are “Foes” to onion.

The “Friends” to both are listed as: beets, brassica family, camomile, roses, and tomato.

additional “friends” to garlic are: celery, lettuce, and radish.

Additional “friends” to onion are: carrot, cucumber, dill, leeks, pepper, potato, spinach, squash, strawberry, and summer savory.

My chart comes from Portland nursery and even has an author listed and 3 references! Hopefully this is helpful!

 

[Acre4Me]

Potatoes: yes, mine have popped up here and there before. Just cover with dirt so they don’t turn green. Wait to harvest until plants die back.

 

[microchick]

I'm going to have to spray my thornless blackberries with a copper fungicide at the crack of dawn tomorrow. Whatever blight is attacking them has been relentless. I'm actually worried that I may lose both plants.... View attachment 3147398

Any chance you are fighting fire blight? I had that hit my thornless when they were still amongst the living.

Yep, copper spray is the treatment. We had fire blight hit our fruit trees and a few of our thornless blackberries but it was tough on the trees. Don't know how many we lost.

What did I do in the garden today? My little two raised beds and three tomato plants are doing fantastic. I harvested spinach, lettuce, kale and beet leaves for a dinner salad and did a little weeding and watering.

The only thing I planted directly in ground without the benefit of a planter this year was onions. They are doing well. I hoed and cultivated them today. Now if I could keep the bleeping yard roosters out of them so they weren't being trampled they would prolly be doing a LOT better.

 

[riss]

Love how well my sunflower is doing! I picked one up from work and it’s blossoming beautifully

Super big hail storm we just had so brought this little girl inside till I get to plant her this week

 

[TJAnonymous]

Although not companion planting, per se, I’ll guess that turning the bed from one thing to another (garlic or onions to something else) immediately might still qualify. So, in my handy chart for companion planting it indicates that beans and peas are “Foes” to onion and garlic. In addition, sage and asparagus are “Foes” to onion.

The “Friends” to both are listed as: beets, brassica family, camomile, roses, and tomato.

additional “friends” to garlic are: celery, lettuce, and radish.

Additional “friends” to onion are: carrot, cucumber, dill, leeks, pepper, potato, spinach, squash, strawberry, and summer savory.

My chart comes from Portland nursery and even has an author listed and 3 references! Hopefully this is helpful!

I came across this graphic while doing some searching on crop rotation. I've always tried to ensure I don't plant the same vegetables in the same places from year to year, but I don't really have defined "beds" that make it easy. For example, I have tomatoes, carrots, and chives in the two beds that make up the east side of my hoop house. In the two beds that make up the west side, I have beans, zucchini, broccolini, eggplant, and lettuce. So all mixed but strategically placed so they don't interfere which each other's growth.

I had my onions and garlic in a row of tire beds on the outside/east side of the hoop house....so next to the tomatoes. If I read the graphic correctly, I would put fruiting vegetables (such as tomatoes) in these beds next season. Shouldn't be too much of an issue as long as I get determinate tomatoes.....but what to put in there UNTIL next season?