What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

Picked about a pound of snow and snap peas and snipped some dill for supper tonight to go with the potatoes I dug out yesterday. Going to cook them all together and have with a pan fried ribeye steak for supper tonight.

Will butter be involved?

 

[Rick589]

I have a fair number of tomatoes on my plants! All still green. I did see one cluster of cherry tomatoes, and one of those was starting to turn yellow.

I am SOOOOO ready for fresh tomatoes!

Our cherry tomatoes have been ripening pretty well, we’ve pulled a fair amount so far. Our other love apples, Perons, are loading up but still green. So, we’re both on the same glide path it seems.

 

[Sally PB]

Garlic, if you plant the small cloves, will make smaller heads. The bigger the clove, the best chance you have at getting a large head.

That's what I've read. Eat the small ones, plant the big ones.

 

[Sally PB]

Having loose well draining soil makes a difference as well. Using sulfur at planting helps, mulching heavily and keeping the moisture even. Garlic does not like to dry out. Garlic likes a more acidic soil.

Interesting! I did not know about the sulfur. What do you use as a sulfur amendment?

I can't complain about my garlic. I grow the variety Music, and the cloves are plenty big, though there are only 4-6 in a bulb, usually.

The other variety I grew this year is Metechi. I picked that one for a stronger flavored garlic. I haven't tried it yet.

 

[Rick589]

Interesting! I did not know about the sulfur. What do you use as a sulfur amendment?

I can't complain about my garlic. I grow the variety Music, and the cloves are plenty big, though there are only 4-6 in a bulb, usually.

The other variety I grew this year is Metechi. I picked that one for a stronger flavored garlic. I haven't tried it yet.

Do you get a full years worth of useable garlic? I notice that as the year rolls on after harvest and drying that we start to lose cloves due to drying out and shriveling. Last year we took a large amount of the small cloves and processed them into dry minced garlic so that we would have less loss.

 

[Sally PB]

Do you get a full years worth of useable garlic? I notice that as the year rolls on after harvest and drying that we start to lose cloves due to drying out and shriveling. Last year we took a large amount of the small cloves and processed them into dry minced garlic so that we would have less loss.

Ours gets dry and shrivel-y too. This year, I'm going to chop and freeze a bunch.

I have a dehydrator, but can't imagine drying garlic in the house...!

 

[Rick589]

Ours gets dry and shrivel-y too. This year, I'm going to chop and freeze a bunch.

I have a dehydrator, but can't imagine drying garlic in the house...!

We would hand peel and mince. Put the minced garlic on a baking sheet in a 175F oven for several hours, stirring periodically. But a dehydrator would probably be better.

 

[Supercow]

 

[Supercow]

 

[chicken opey]

At this moment DW is cursing at the Horn Worms that are being dropped in a coffee can of Kerosene. On the tomatoes but she'll go over all the plants. Early find so it's good.

You don’t give to chickens?