What did you do in the garden today?

[Justagalwithchicks]

You could try a systemic insecticide. Bonide 951. I use imaclorprid. Use it as a soil drench. I cannot get to the picture. Crazy computer.

I have bonide but I'm afraid to use it. I have kittys that like to chew plant leaves once in awhile. It's toxic. I wonder if imaclorprid is. I'll have to look it up! Thanks!

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

This is the brand of systemic I use. Darn computer was only showing photo numbers.View attachment 4038652

Thanks, I'll look it up and see if I can use them. My cats sometimes chew on my plant leaves and I'm afraid it will hurt them. I appreciate the tip!

 

[ShesSoPecky]

Where are you? Are you planting them inside?

Turmeric purchased at the store may be very slow to germinate, as it is often treated to prevent germination. It can throw that off, if the root doesn't rot or dry up. The first time I grew turmeric it took nearly a year to sprout.

If you can get it from the ethnic stores it's less likely to be treated.

Find roots with growth buds. The first image is best. (These are ginger pictures, but the idea is the same).
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@LaurenRitz 6 are inside, 6 are on a heated seed starter pad in my enclosed garage. The rhizomes were ordered online, not from the store. Thanks for your feedback, as I don't know what to expect. Exciting nonetheless. I'm in Oregon.

 

[jerryse]

Thanks, I'll look it up and see if I can use them. My cats sometimes chew on my plant leaves and I'm afraid it will hurt them. I appreciate the tip!

imaclorprid is safe for mammals. Ingredient in chewable for dogs for fleas.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

DW and I discussed what her choices are since we're (her) cutting back. Me, I'm expanding to more varieties of hot peppers.

 

[Acre4Me]

Seeds have been arriving! Exciting to open the packs. Some sell packets with pics, some do not, so I have to write notes on them.

I’m working on the garden plan. Our new-to-us seed to try will be “cuka-melon” aka “sour gherkin”.

Jerusalem artichokes: who has experience growing these? Thoughts? I’ve eaten some many years ago (but don’t remember much about them). Husband want to grow them as he likes them. Seems like a candidate for their own perennial bed ( like as for asparagus).

 

[Sally PB]

cuka-melon

I liked them, hubby didn't. They made good refrigerator pickles. I will grow them again!

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Today’s plan is get some help translating the planting instructions on the Korean Seed packets I have from coworkers. If the sun is still up when I arrive home from work some yard clean up. (I leave home in darkness & come home in darkness this time of year). If I can’t do that I am going to start setting up my seed growing area for inside. This weekend I plan to get peas planted.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Jerusalem artichoke grew well under heavy mulch in sand (no supplemental water, desert) and spread by a few inches per year. Not so much in clay soil. Chickens love the leaves.

They cut rather like a water chestnut rather than a potato but it can be hard to get all the dirt off the knobly roots. They taste nothing like a potato. I bottled some and they were fine. The skins are too thin and fragile to bother skinning them. Some refer to them as fartichokes, but I never had a problem with eating them.

Under the right (i.e., wrong) conditions they can be invasive, and they'll just ignore your bed boundaries if they decide to go elsewhere. Cut the stalks off for a few years where you don't want them and they'll die out.

Don't worry about replanting. Harvest everything you can find and they'll be back in the spring.

 

[WthrLady]

I don't even get the urge to plant until March. I don't start seeds in the seeding shed, until April 1, and even then, I'm sometimes not really in the mood.