Gardening Gardening

Cut the tops and then put in a warm airy place without direct hot sun. Unlike onions the tops don't go right into the bulbs and possibly cause rot.

 

Sunday the last of the taters come out.

 

Dang! I just drove through there less than 2 weeks ago!

 

Darn it. With the forecast the end of garlic planting might be over. Mine went in last Thursday, mulched a few days later. Usually it goes in earlier but not this year. I've pulled carrots after a snow so if your ground isn't frozen you might find some to plant.... If you don't mind smaller bulbs you can always shoot for a spring planting.

If you hunt, good luck this week.

 

Thanks, same to you!

 

I had the neighbor push the 2 dump trailer loads of leaves into the garden with his Kubota this afternoon (about 2 tons). I spread the piles and lumps around till i had everything about a foot deep. Topped with the 6 bails of straw (300-ish #) then 5-6 bags of grass clippings. (150-ish #)
I could here the worms stampeding in as we left. Lol

My buddy has a lawn care business and the leaf vac trailer is 12'x7' and gets about 5-6' deep. The leaves are chopped pretty good and pack into the trailer.

I've got a (rotting) 400+ pound bail of hay to put in yet.

 

Tucker helped us. Lol
https://youtube.com/shorts/sbRqpJ7aAeg?feature=share

 

I forgot to mention, up until recently my Arugula and Cilantro was still clinging to life, despite several days with low temperatures in the high teens. On Sunday I made chili and used Cilantro straight from the garden. This is definitely a record for me. For weeks, during the cold snaps it would wilt, then the weather would warm up above freezing and the plants would bounce back.

 

Crazy temps/weather for these here parts.

60⁰ is for Friday. They might perk up once more for you.

 

IIRC cilantro will take over a whole garden bed...

 

Cilantro is a cool weather annual, so it has to be planted every year. I have however planted it in the spring, let it go to seed, and it re-seeded itself, producing another crop in the fall. Every now and again I'll have a little pop up randomly somewhere from a seed that overwintered outside, but it won't take over an area like an ivy or strawberries would.

 

Yes.
Our friends planted a small patch, it went to seed and the next year half of her garden box was Cilantro. Lol

A little Cilantro goes a LONG way.

 

I have a good crop of snow going in my garden now.

The day to day growth is amazing; why, just overnight, it must have gained another 6" easily!! And that is without and fertilizer and watering!

 

It’s not seed starting time yet, but it’s not far off either. I just got these in the mail this afternoon. A couple new colorful varieties to try this year.

 

Here ya go!!

 

I'm definitely trying Black Krim this year.
I didn't get seeds in time last year.

 

I've got onions started:


and three potatoes, which are way too early and I'm not sure what I'll do with them, but they were some eyes that snapped off of a potato we were putting in stew and I planted just the little eyes and ...........



They're just in a window as my lights aren't set up yet.