What did you do in the garden today?

[OrganicFarmWife]

What are "scapes"? lol Sorry, just lurking & I have no idea what that is. I've never grown garlic, although I should because I love it.

Scapes are the plants "seeds" they grow above ground at the top of a mature plant

This picture doesnt show it but each pod is filled with new tiny bulbs. You can plant them, mine are growning great, but they take a couple years to mature.

I planted cloves from a bag of garlic I bought at the store...when separated, it came to 220 cloves of garlic!!!  Don't know where I'm going to plant all this garlic but I'm certainly going to try and stick it in anywhere I can.  What I can't plant, I'll dehydrate and grind into garlic powder. 

I need a dehydrator. Garlic powder would be great to have

 

[AlHawk]

I just received a FREE live oak tree from the Florida Arbor Day Foundation. They have a program of ONE free tree to Florida residents. Have to plant that this weekend. They also sent a Florida Native Trees booklet. Kinda cool.

http://energysavingtrees.arborday.org/?partnerCode=07502#Start

 

[jerryse]

Got a notice that my raspberry plants Boyne and Black Mac will be shipped this week . My scion wood for grafting is in the mail . So it is beginning .

 

[BeachBumBiddies]

Scapes are the plants "seeds" they grow above ground at the top of a mature plant


This picture doesnt show it but each pod is filled with new tiny bulbs. You can plant them, mine are growning great, but they take a couple years to mature.
I need a dehydrator. Garlic powder would be great to have

Cool! I've seen them. I just thought they were flowers. I guess some flowers do turn to seeds though. Thanks for the info.

 

[BeachBumBiddies]

I just received a FREE live oak tree from the Florida Arbor Day Foundation. They have a program of ONE free tree to Florida residents. Have to plant that this weekend. They also sent a Florida Native Trees booklet. Kinda cool.

http://energysavingtrees.arborday.org/?partnerCode=07502#Start

Awesome! I'm in FL too. I wish I had acreage like I did in GA.

 

[lazy gardener]

THAT should help with deworming!!

Yep, that's why I didn't stop her from helping herself. My cat also loves to eat garlic leaves in the spring. He would go out into the green house and graze on the leaves when I had it planted there.

 

[Beekissed]

Now THAT'S one smart cat! Usually they will graze on what we here call "saw grass", which is just blades of grass with really sharp edges that will cut you like a paper cut if you aren't careful. Whenever I saw a dog or cat doing that when I was growing up, the oldsters would say, "They've got worms", meaning they were eating that grass to take care of their own worm problem...and it works.

I'm sure the garlic works just as well for your cat and he knows it...and probably taste a whole lot better than the regular grass they chew for this.

What folks don't know is that chickens eat that same kind of grass..and it's very tough, not a bit tender to consume, so I can only conclude that they too know how to take care of their own parasites in this manner. Wish more people would realize that and just let their animals live out on pasture so they could do their own self maintenance in a more natural way.

 

[Bugseye]

When the scapes first come up, they remind me of green onions. And now that Beekissed has mentioned garlic powder, I've thought what a great idea that is.

 

[lazy gardener]

Garlic scapes remind me of swan necks.

 

[lazy gardener]

Planted some Egyptian walking onions form a dear lady!