What did you do in the garden today?

[PopoMyers]

Naught raccoons. W

I had plastic leaf guards and the raccoons sat on them squashing them into the gutter
Ended up getting the one piece leafguard gutters installed when I needed new gutters. Expensive as all get out though.
Hope all's well with the

Naughty raccoons. What were they doing on your roof? Last night my camera caught one on the grape arbor, again. There are no more grapes, since it ate most of the a few weeks ago. I think it also came up on my back deck and rummaged through the eggshell bucket. They were strewn across the porch.

 

[PopoMyers]

It poured last night, and will shower throughout today. Get to clean and do inside stuff.

 

[Nomadicus]

I went out to the large garden area where muscadine grapes will be planted to observe where to end the rows so they last vine in the row gets full sunshine.

 

[Smokerbill]

Thankfully, garlic is self perpetuating. Buy once and have cloves to plant. Always plant the largest cloves to get larger bulbs. Good luck!

This will be the third year of multiplying my single seed garlic purchase.

The first year I had 9 pitiful plants. Those were planted in the spring of 2022, came up, grew a bit and died. I forgot about them until they came up again the next spring. Those provided seed for the second generation of 16 plants that I harvested this summer.

For the third generation I just sorted out 60 of the largest cloves to plant, and have 35 of the smaller cloves left over for eating.

With next year's harvest I should just about have enough for a year's worth of eating, plus cloves for planting. I'm going outside to shove garlic into the dirt right now. I've been prepping the garlic bed over the last week, so the new plants should be happy in their home.

ETA: It's raining, so planting will have to wait.

 

[Nomadicus]

Muscadine vines and one bunch grape vine will arrive in November for planting here.

 

[Nomadicus]

The one muscadine we have provided a lot of juice that was turned into jam. Love that special flavor.

 

[Sally PB]

I have October 15th marked on my calendar as garlic planting day. And multiplier onions too. Between now and then (a week away!) I need to figure out where they're going and put a load of compost on that area.

I also plan to freeze a bunch of cloves too. Garlic gets not-the-best by about January/February, and I want to preserve the wonderful stuff I grew.

 

[Smokerbill]

The garlic has been planted. Five rows of 12 cloves spaced 6" apart on all sides, in a 7' x 3' bed. I used up most of the space I intended for onions and shallots so I'm going to have to make a new allium bed somewhere.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Riddle me this Batman... We bought a new dishwasher last year because the one that came with our house was really old and not getting things clean anymore, even with pre-washing. So I bought a new GE Profile stainless steel dishwasher. Supposed to be energy efficient, yadda yadda. With the new dishwasher, it takes nearly FOUR HOURS to wash and dry a single load. The old dishwasher, when it was still working properly, only took a single HOUR to wash and dry a load.

How the heck can "technology" go from one hour to FOUR hours to do the same activity and legitimately be called "energy efficient"? That is not efficient. Energy or otherwise.

 

[Smokerbill]

I have October 15th marked on my calendar as garlic planting day. And multiplier onions too. Between now and then (a week away!) I need to figure out where they're going and put a load of compost on that area.

I also plan to freeze a bunch of cloves too. Garlic gets not-the-best by about January/February, and I want to preserve the wonderful stuff I grew.

Do you just freeze the whole cloves separated from the head?

Since I have only 30+ of the smaller garlic cloves left it won't be long before they're gone.

I'm going to attempt planting yellow onion and shallot seeds in the garden as soon as I get them. I didn't have luck trying to start onion seeds indoors, so maybe direct-seeding them in the fall would work. If not, I can buy sets next spring.

I've read that seeds started in the garden in the fall make larger onions because the root systems are well established once spring arrives.