What did you do in the garden today?

[Jenbirdee]

sigh… nothing

 

[Jenbirdee]

@ Nym and CatinTheHenHouse, buy a gallon of water. After it's empty use the lid to put 5 circles in the middle of it while it's laying down on your counter. Cut out the circles. Put the lid on and fill it with water, then put your garlic root side down on the holes. Keep the water full. In a few weeks your garlic will have enough roots to go into the ground, and you can also separate the cloves and you don't have to buy as much garlic.

can you please post a photo of that- I just can’t picture how a water gallond jug can have five holes in it with garlic bulbs sticking out. Do you lay it on its side or something?

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

@ Nym and CatinTheHenHouse, buy a gallon of water. After it's empty use the lid to put 5 circles in the middle of it while it's laying down on your counter. Cut out the circles. Put the lid on and fill it with water, then put your garlic root side down on the holes. Keep the water full. In a few weeks your garlic will have enough roots to go into the ground, and you can also separate the cloves and you don't have to buy as much garlic.

It’s not the rooting I have issues with. I can put the individual clove in the ground in the fall and it sprouts just fine, it might even survive the winter, but later in the spring, it rots.

That looks delicious! My family really likes lemon pepper chicken... Mine are also baseball sized. I have somewhere between 6 - 8 which are almost fully yellow. I will probably freeze dry some. Also I drink a LOT of lemonade and lemon water so some will go to that as well.... I'd like to make my own zest too...

Zest is wonderful! I’ve gotten to the point that if I don’t zest my citrus before eating it I feel wasteful.

 

[Smokerbill]

It’s not the rooting I have issues with. I can put the individual clove in the ground in the fall and it sprouts just fine, it might even survive the winter, but later in the spring, it rots.

My guess is your garlic needs to be in better draining soil. If the bulbs are in soil that retains too much moisture they tend to rot.

My garlic bed has a lot of organic matter mixed in with the soil, and it's piled higher than the rest of the raised bed to promote drainage.

The garlic I dug this summer looked great. It was planted last October. I dug it up on July 7th.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Today's bounty
You're still working to feed us, my little garden!

 

[fuzzi]

Weeded, picked worms off turnips and collards, planted four more collards.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

My guess is your garlic needs to be in better draining soil. If the bulbs are in soil that retains too much moisture they tend to rot.

Well I put some perlite in the potting soil for it, hopefully that will help!

 

[Nym]

@ Nym and CatinTheHenHouse, buy a gallon of water. After it's empty use the lid to put 5 circles in the middle of it while it's laying down on your counter. Cut out the circles. Put the lid on and fill it with water, then put your garlic root side down on the holes. Keep the water full. In a few weeks your garlic will have enough roots to go into the ground, and you can also separate the cloves and you don't have to buy as much garlic.

Thanks!

 

[TJAnonymous]

DH and DS made the new rat trap...

 

[cj2024]

That looks delicious! My family really likes lemon pepper chicken... Mine are also baseball sized. I have somewhere between 6 - 8 which are almost fully yellow. I will probably freeze dry some. Also I drink a LOT of lemonade and lemon water so some will go to that as well.... I'd like to make my own zest too...

I add a packet of Emergence C when I drink a cup of homemade lemon aide. It takes out the bitterness and makes it more palatable for me.