What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Poured the concrete pad for the delivery shed. I'll have to cover it tonight, but I'm not worried about it.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

It was nice and warm and there were plenty of leaves available so I dumped the remainder of my compost on the garden boxes and then mulched them heavily with leaves. Hopefully they won’t just get blown off again!

 

[Minanora]

I want some rain!!!! Real rain!!! Supposed to get our first hard freeze tonight.

The opossum is my mortal enemy right now... When I catch it.... I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I'm thinking it'll turn into fertilizer.

 

[Jenbirdee]

I checked my garlic really close today and found that only 2 out of the 60 I planted haven't broken ground yet. I still have a few replacement cloves left to plant if I don't see them come up in the next week or so.

Got the entire yard mowed, and I hope I won't be mowing again until next spring.

wow good for you that’s great!

 

[Jenbirdee]

i raked up 3 trash cans full of leaves and dumped them in compost heaps .

 

[Molpet]

I checked my garlic really close today and found that only 2 out of the 60 I planted haven't broken ground yet. I still have a few replacement cloves left to plant if I don't see them come up in the next week or so.

Got the entire yard mowed, and I hope I won't be mowing again until next spring.

Usually mine don't come up in the fall. How deep did you plant and do you mulch? I plant 4 inches and then mulch. I'm sure there are many ways that work.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I’m seeing a sprout or two out of the new batch of scorzonera seeds.

 

[Sueby]

Still no rain here. It's so dry. I watered the strawberries, carrots & greens this am.

I'm off to spend the day doing stuff in the garden. It's beautiful out too, so yay for vacation days!

 

[Smokerbill]

Usually mine don't come up in the fall. How deep did you plant and do you mulch? I plant 4 inches and then mulch. I'm sure there are many ways that work.

I set them 4 to 5 inches deep in loose, compost rich soil. I mulched them with a thin layer of grass clippings when they started coming up, a few weeks after they were planted.

From what I've read different types of garlic (hardneck, softneck) have different growth characteristics, and the growing zone has some bearing on when it comes up. I'm in zone 8a, and I think the garlic I'm growing is a hardneck, Russian Red garlic.

 

[Molpet]

I set them 4 to 5 inches deep in loose, compost rich soil. I mulched them with a thin layer of grass clippings when they started coming up, a few weeks after they were planted.

From what I've read different types of garlic (hardneck, softneck) have different growth characteristics, and the growing zone has some bearing on when it comes up. I'm in zone 8a, and I think the garlic I'm growing is a hardneck, Russian Red garlic.

I'm in 6 , was 5...big difference from 8
I grow both soft and hard neck. M