What did you do in your garden today?

[akroberts]

@flowerbug, putting garlic in a jar of water and allowing it to develop green shoots can make it easier to get the heads you want. I did do that this year so I will keep everyone updated on the results. So completely new to me is my husband and I made raised beds from pallets. Here's the pictures: The small one is the 1st one. I'm big one is the 2nd one. We turned the little one upside down after we moved it.

 

[flowerbug]

@flowerbug, putting garlic in a jar of water and allowing it to develop green shoots can make it easier to get the heads you want. I did do that this year so I will keep everyone updated on the results.[...]

i normally get pretty decent bulbs from my garlic plantings, the size has not been an issue, it's the quality of the bulbs after harvest and that is due to soil being very heavy where i grew them the past few years. this past fall i planted some of the cloves in better soil so it should be better results.

your method is ok for longer season and warmer weather growing, but here the best time to get the garlic planted is right before the weather gets too cold so no extra energy is wasted on top growth that might soon be killed off by the cold. it will grow and finish ok. i've left garlic in the ground the entire year before and had it come out ok, but for bigger bulbs the better results will come from planting later towards winter.

in the end though it is also very weather related along with spacing and soil quality.

oh, i've also in the past grown a lot of garlic for early harvest (often called green garlic). it's yummy and a good way to use up a lot of the smaller cloves if you don't want to eat them, just plant them a bit deeper so you get more blanched stem.

 

[akroberts]

Tomorrow I am going to post some pictures of the garden and I want everyone to find it as humorous as I do.

 

[akroberts]

This is the small bed that I planted. No I didn't plant everything to the one side but my girls decided that I didn't plant it right so they had to fix it for me

 

[flowerbug]

i'm looking out the patio door at all the white snow with the sun shining on it. very bright.

packing up some peas and beans to send to someone - finally can get this done. hope no more emergencies come up in the next few hours...