What did you do in the garden today?

[Fishychix]

Trying to cleanup garden in this nice spell of weather. It’s slow going with other obligations. Have my garlic ready to plant, and chose the two beds they will go into. I have 3, maybe 4 varieties to plant.

I have one variety that I’m going to leave in the ground overwinter. We received “bulblets” so, not a head with cloves. But, doesn’t seem like the other bulblets where we got a clove to cure them plant this fall. This one looks almost a bit more like an onion right now (except it’s deep in the ground), and the ones I dug two months ago were still a bit green as of yesterday. So, I’m going to leave that variety over the winter and just see what happens.

Still have one more variety of parsnips to pull. Then we should try them out.

So, my curing area for sweet potatoes is a tent with heater and bowl of water. It’s been just over two weeks, and one sweet potato in there has put off a slip!!! Lol. I guess it’s suitably warm, moist and dark in there, and I guess I should get those off the curing racks soon.

All i have available is a wire shelf i can put over a heating vent. I guess i can get a shower curtain to cover it. Not sure if this will be anywhere near good enough. I have a hygrometer somewhere i'll have to dig up as well as the potatoes. Not sure what im gonna get. I did take a peek and saw growth but didnt go further at that time.

 

[Elyrian1]

Oh no, did you lose the babies?

Sadly yes. Quite common in animals with their first time around though.

 

[karenerwin]

So I saw someone say on here that they cut back their sage to over winter outside. Do you have to do anything to lavender or artichokes to successfully overwinter them?
Missouri zone 6 (near St. Louis ).

 

[igorsMistress]

So I saw someone say on here that they cut back their sage to over winter outside. Do you have to do anything to lavender or artichokes to successfully overwinter them?
Missouri zone 6 (near St. Louis ).

Artichokes will not overwinter. I suggest either cutting them back and putting down some extra mulch to keep the roots from freezing, or letting them die back naturally leaving the dead leaves for mulch and they should shoot up again in Spring.

Ooo, look at this, you might be able to overwinter them! Learn something new every day.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/artichoke/artichoke-winter-care.htm

 

[Bluesamantha26]

I pulled weeds!

 

[Bluesamantha26]

I hate to say it but the last frost this year took us be suprise and anything that didn't die from the freeze got eaten by the chickens and ducks we will be better prepared next year

 

[WIchickMama]

Sadly yes. Quite common in animals with their first time around though.

That stinks, sorry. I too have a 1st time broody, just hatched chicks this weekend, it is just part if nature but still sad

 

[pennyJo1960]

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Good morning Gardeners.

 

[jerryse]

So I hulled walnuts the other day . Waiting on them to dry before cracking . Here is what I do . I drilled 3 holes in a board 1 1/2 , 1 5/8 and 1 3/4 sizes . I find this covers the size of most of my nuts . I put the board over a 5 gallon bucket and smack the nut through a hole with a hammer . This removes the hull . As a teenager I used to hull them for grandma with my bare hands . Very messy . FYI I used to clean my hands with a green tomato squished . Removes most of the stain .

 

[NewBoots]

Dang green tomato jam didn't set up. I'll do like they say online and give it more time, I'm not keen on opening 10 half pints and reprocessing but this stuff is green so I don't see it looking right as a syrup.
Well maybe for a Halloween party.

I'll bet it didn't get hot enough, it needs to hit 220 but I didn't check and just used the cooking time in the recipe. We'll use one jar and let the rest sit for another day then recook if it still hasn't set. Dang stuff is really delicious, you can taste the cinnamon, allspice, ginger root, and something fruity and that has to be the green tomato. I like to imagine my grandmother making this stuff, I can see her being unwilling to let any tomatoes go to waste. It makes me wish once again that I could talk to her now and learn from her, she was a great cook I was told but I only saw her maybe 5 times as a kid and that was all before I was 10 years old. I know she canned, I can remember seeing the old style jars. I can't even imagine what she could have taught me.

Artichokes will not overwinter. I suggest either cutting them back and putting down some extra mulch to keep the roots from freezing, or letting them die back naturally leaving the dead leaves for mulch and they should shoot up again in Spring.

Ooo, look at this, you might be able to overwinter them! Learn something new every day.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/artichoke/artichoke-winter-care.htm

Huh, they practically grow wild here (zone 9) and I just assumed everyone didn't do anything to over-winter. I've got some in a wine barrel and one in a raised bed. I'll mulch mine and see how they go.