What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

@Rick589

Maybe this is an option for you? At one point, I used tires as raised beds for my onions and garlic because my ground was too wet due to a nearby storm drain. It worked well as you can see in the picture. I used loamy slightly sandy soil and they loved it.

Edited to add: here's one of my current onion beds... It's an old mineral tub used for cattle. I got a bunch of these for free from some of the local cattle farmers. They usually have them stacked up by the dozen. I put some wood logs in the bottom and and overflow hole for drainage and fill the rest with soil. These onions were planted about 10 days ago.

 

[Rick589]

Usually if they are small, it's because 1 of 2 reasons:

1. They were too closely crowded together
2. They weren't fed or watered enough

Maybe try again? It sounds like you either have a fungus in your garden soil or it's just too heavy/clay and holding too much water.

Thank You for the feedback. It can’t be water retention in the soil because we have sandy soil which drains very well.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Well... After 1 season of use, my Melnor 2 Zone Water Timer is leaking a steady stream of water from the input line... This despite being stored indoors for the winter and well before any freezing temperatures.

They are supposed to have a 7 year limited warranty. Let's see if they will honor it.

 

[akroberts1085]

Well... After 1 season of use, my Melnor 2 Zone Water Timer is leaking a steady stream of water from the input line... This despite being stored indoors for the winter and well before any freezing temperatures.

They are supposed to have a 7 year limited warranty. Let's see if they will honor it.

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That sucks especially if they don't honor the warranty.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Planted: peas; arugula; red and green romaine; kale; radish; spinach ,

 

[Rick589]

Well... After 1 season of use, my Melnor 2 Zone Water Timer is leaking a steady stream of water from the input line... This despite being stored indoors for the winter and well before any freezing temperatures.

They are supposed to have a 7 year limited warranty. Let's see if they will honor it.

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Quality……a fading goal.

 

[Rick589]

On a side note just found out my chickens like popcorn. Next step……movie night in the coop.

 

[WthrLady]

picked up half the amount I need to do the walkways in the garden. I haven't done them properly for a couple years. They're overdue.

I'll get the peas down soon, and the potatoes need shoved in their buckets.

 

[Sally PB]

The onions appear to do well in the garden but usually start to show signs of rot shortly after harvest while they are being cured and it more often than not a layer rather then the whole onion that rots. We can usually salvage something from them although this is frustrating.

I had this in MOST of my onions last year, and never had this issue to this extreme before. I dry them on the front porch, out of the sun, until the leaves are crispy dry.

I ended up chopping and freezing the ones that had bad spots.

For today's laugh:

I bought another bag of Red Baron (hubby's fave) onion sets. In the upper corner of the package, it says, "Summer Blooming."

 

[TJAnonymous]

Quality……a fading goal.

I was reading a little article today about covered bridges. I grew up around very old covered bridges in the upper Midwest and they give me a sense of home and nostalgia. Did you know that many covered bridges have last 100-200 years??? When I read that, I snorted... Pretty sure nothing modern....bridges included...even last 50 years or heck...10 years....these days.

How far we've fallen. I hate this disposable society.