Page 8 of 13 FirstFirst ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 LastLast
Results 176 to 200 of 308

Thread: Garden 2019

  1. #176
    Join Date
    Jul 2016
    Location
    Mostly the Elks, mostly.
    Posts
    1,279
    Quote Originally Posted by Rideski View Post
    And so based on that are the bulbs ready to dig, or do you go by the “lowest of 6 leaves turning brown” method I read about online?
    I go by the leaves. My ignorant understanding is that the bulbs are still growing/curing until the leaves tell me they're done (and not all varieties will shoot scapes). fwiw garlic is a pretty reliable bumper crop here, and I'm usually able to cure and preserve all year.

    Name:  IMG_3256.jpg
Views: 377
Size:  57.5 KB

    I procrastinated the scapes last year too - dried them and made a nice decoration:
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	image1.jpg 
Views:	42 
Size:	544.9 KB 
ID:	288954

  2. #177
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Location
    here and there
    Posts
    18,583
    garlic scape pesto

    fookin off the scale tastey

    Trim them be4 they straighten out, lay out in sun for week or so to dry, trim and peel wrapper, put in blender with EVOO, lemon juice and basil.
    watch out for snakes

  3. #178
    Join Date
    Sep 2006
    Posts
    6,388
    Lol I thought that cartridge was a beer can at first till I zoomed.

  4. #179
    Join Date
    Apr 2004
    Location
    Southeast New York
    Posts
    11,766
    So my garden was going very well and all of a sudden things started to either die, finish producing or go to seed. It wasn't simultaneous across the garden but as plants would start to produce they'd stop after a few tomatoes, beans or peppers. The lettuce is doing great, the Swiss chard is too. The strawberry plant flowers and then the fruit becomes a tiny hard yellow nugget in a day or two. The corn husks all popped open a day or two ago and the ears dried right up. Cucumbers are sort of doing well, they are producing and ripening nicely but the next round is stunted and not getting bigger.

    Am I supposed to be changing or upping the fertilizer as things are "popping"? I'm watering more as we dried out a lot over the last month, mostly in the morning but sometimes when it's hot like this it dries out and needs a second round. Too much water? I have a feeling a lot of it is due to the store bought plants we started with. The things I started from seed are weak, other than the lettuce that's banging away, but moving along. Learning lots to apply to next year.

  5. #180
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    Shuswap Highlands
    Posts
    4,345
    Quote Originally Posted by gravitylover View Post
    So my garden was going very well and all of a sudden things started to either die, finish producing or go to seed. It wasn't simultaneous across the garden but as plants would start to produce they'd stop after a few tomatoes, beans or peppers. The lettuce is doing great, the Swiss chard is too. The strawberry plant flowers and then the fruit becomes a tiny hard yellow nugget in a day or two. The corn husks all popped open a day or two ago and the ears dried right up. Cucumbers are sort of doing well, they are producing and ripening nicely but the next round is stunted and not getting bigger.

    Am I supposed to be changing or upping the fertilizer as things are "popping"? I'm watering more as we dried out a lot over the last month, mostly in the morning but sometimes when it's hot like this it dries out and needs a second round. Too much water? I have a feeling a lot of it is due to the store bought plants we started with. The things I started from seed are weak, other than the lettuce that's banging away, but moving along. Learning lots to apply to next year.
    Macro-nutrient deficits shouldn’t cause such widespread or sudden issues, and producing symptoms in the foliage that can be traced back to the deficiency. Any idea what your pH is? Did you prep the soil any differently this year. Add anything like someone else’s compost or other soil additive? If you pull up a problem plant or two, what are the roots doing? Or perhaps are you putting weed and feed or other such additive on the lawn, then putting the lawn clippings in the compost?

  6. #181
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    tetons
    Posts
    8,504
    ugh I found a dead mouse in my compost pile
    do you guys think I need to get rid of the whole bin? it's just a large trash bin sized one so it's not the end of the world, but trying to think thru the best/ easiest solution...
    skid luxury

  7. #182
    Join Date
    Nov 2005
    Posts
    1,405
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	20190719_185700.jpg 
Views:	28 
Size:	1.22 MB 
ID:	289406

    Pickling cukes have been strong lately....almost a dozen or so a day now

  8. #183
    Join Date
    Mar 2014
    Posts
    498
    Quote Originally Posted by pepperdawg View Post
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	20190719_185700.jpg 
Views:	28 
Size:	1.22 MB 
ID:	289406

    Pickling cukes have been strong lately....almost a dozen or so a day now
    Any pickling brine recipes or tips? Did you put fennel in?

  9. #184
    Join Date
    Sep 2001
    Location
    Before
    Posts
    27,910
    The dahlias are starting to bloom, must be August:





    Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
    >>>200 cm Black Bamboo Sidewalled DPS Lotus 120 : Best Skis Ever <<<

  10. #185
    Join Date
    May 2015
    Posts
    50
    Quote Originally Posted by b-bear View Post
    ugh I found a dead mouse in my compost pile
    do you guys think I need to get rid of the whole bin? it's just a large trash bin sized one so it's not the end of the world, but trying to think thru the best/ easiest solution...
    Nah, it'll be fine, but why was it there? Poisoned? cat? raptor?

  11. #186
    Join Date
    Apr 2004
    Location
    Southeast New York
    Posts
    11,766
    Quote Originally Posted by BCMtnHound View Post
    Macro-nutrient deficits shouldn’t cause such widespread or sudden issues, and producing symptoms in the foliage that can be traced back to the deficiency. Any idea what your pH is? Did you prep the soil any differently this year. Add anything like someone else’s compost or other soil additive? If you pull up a problem plant or two, what are the roots doing? Or perhaps are you putting weed and feed or other such additive on the lawn, then putting the lawn clippings in the compost?
    All new soil this year from Agway, some organic and some not certified organic but pretty good mix. I'm not thrilled with either of them though, in particular the organic one. It looks like the farm that made them used a lot of fruits and veggies in their compost and there's the little plastic stickers and packaging bits in it The problem plants are actually the ones in planter boxes and containers which were also cleaned before the new soil was put in. I used a mix of different organic fertlizers appropriate to the plants to be grown mixed into the soils at the start and then add a spoonful or two every few weeks. I need to check the pH again. I heard that maybe a magnesium deficiency would be causing the cukes to yellow and wither, drop the immature ones and appear to have gone dormant.

    I'm somewhat more inclined to think it's due to marginal quality store bought plants to get things started this year. They started out strong enough but didn't last. Next year everything will be started from seed over the winter indoors. I've talked to a couple of local farmers and will be getting seeds from them.

    Yesterday the damn moles started chowing on my tomatoes and actually knocked a whole branch off one of the plants dumping ~20 unripe ones on the ground and that drew every mole and squirrel in the neighborhood for a feast They've been decimating my lettuce too. Mole poison incoming

  12. #187
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    tetons
    Posts
    8,504
    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Minion View Post
    Nah, it'll be fine, but why was it there? Poisoned? cat? raptor?
    not sure how it got there. I went to water the pile and it was sitting there on top. it's a closed bin and there's a top so would not have been dropped by any of the raptors around
    I don't use poisons and my terrier kills mice, but this was outside his gated zone.
    It's almost like it went there to die
    It reminded me of the mice and Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock
    skid luxury

  13. #188
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Location
    San Juan Islands, WA.
    Posts
    1,188
    these carnation poppies started growing in a container that had something else last year, I never planted them but they were pretty common here not long ago.

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	IMG_7238.jpg 
Views:	45 
Size:	1.01 MB 
ID:	289532
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	IMG_7194.jpg 
Views:	48 
Size:	1.11 MB 
ID:	289533

  14. #189
    Join Date
    Jul 2016
    Location
    Mostly the Elks, mostly.
    Posts
    1,279
    Quote Originally Posted by b-bear View Post
    ugh I found a dead mouse in my compost pile
    do you guys think I need to get rid of the whole bin? it's just a large trash bin sized one so it's not the end of the world, but trying to think thru the best/ easiest solution...
    nah all good - my compost welcomes all manner of organics.
    If you're worried mickey was a victim of poison, just pull him out. I wouldn't worry about 'contamination' in the rest of the heap.

  15. #190
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    Bottom feeding
    Posts
    10,828
    First tomatoes of the season.
    Damn! Tastes like summer.
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	IMG_1236.JPG 
Views:	32 
Size:	238.3 KB 
ID:	289788
    Well maybe I'm the faggot America
    I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

  16. #191
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Location
    here and there
    Posts
    18,583
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	9eOPd3v.jpg 
Views:	26 
Size:	852.6 KB 
ID:	289817
    watch out for snakes

  17. #192
    Join Date
    Dec 2016
    Location
    In a van... down by the river
    Posts
    13,647
    Quote Originally Posted by plugboots View Post
    First tomatoes of the season.
    Damn! Tastes like summer.
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	IMG_1236.JPG 
Views:	32 
Size:	238.3 KB 
ID:	289788
    Oh, man... those 'maters make SUCH good caprese. I presume you whip up a batch of bruschetta with them occasionally as well? Mmmm... dammit. Now I'm hungry.

  18. #193
    Join Date
    Dec 2016
    Location
    In a van... down by the river
    Posts
    13,647
    Quote Originally Posted by refried View Post
    these carnation poppies started growing in a container that had something else last year, I never planted them but they were pretty common here not long ago.

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	IMG_7238.jpg 
Views:	45 
Size:	1.01 MB 
ID:	289532
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	IMG_7194.jpg 
Views:	48 
Size:	1.11 MB 
ID:	289533
    Can you make opium out of those? Asking for a friend...

  19. #194
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    Central OR
    Posts
    5,963
    I’ve got supports on the branches of my plum trees, but this one broke off anyway. Bumper crop this year; makes up for the two lonely peaches on my peach tree.

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	IMG_1269.JPG 
Views:	43 
Size:	228.4 KB 
ID:	289993

  20. #195
    Join Date
    Oct 2017
    Posts
    202
    jesus christ thats an impressive haul of plums, and it's just one branch. what do you make with them?

  21. #196
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Posts
    19,203
    Quote Originally Posted by LesterSmoove View Post
    jesus christ thats an impressive haul of plums, and it's just one branch. what do you make with them?
    My first thought as well. Lots of jam and wine?

  22. #197
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    Central OR
    Posts
    5,963
    Yeah, one hell of a crop this year; this is about 10% of one tree. I have no idea what we’re gonna do with them, we’ve never had this many. Lol

    Last year we pitted them, then mashed them into ice cube trays; once frozen, the cubes went into ziplocks. We’d put a couple cubes into smoothies every morning, along with a cube of mashed strawberries and a cube of mashed beets.

  23. #198
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    Central OR
    Posts
    5,963
    Hmm... wine actually sounds like a great idea. My wife and a friend of hers have been doing rhubarb wine; time to branch out.

  24. #199
    Join Date
    Oct 2017
    Posts
    202
    frozen cubes for smoothies sounds good too. good way to preserve and keep more nutrition than canning. but hell yeah, make some plum wine.

    I'd get really fat making pies and frangipane tarts and plum cake every day.

  25. #200
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    Central OR
    Posts
    5,963
    Quote Originally Posted by LesterSmoove View Post
    I'd get really fat making pies and frangipane tarts and plum cake every day.
    Exactly what we’re trying to avoid. Lol

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •