2021 Garden thread

[threeforthree]

Who’s got some seeds in the soil... about. 1800 peppers in starting soil... this year, got heating mats, grow lights ..see if those make a difference!

[bsmitty27]

Im getting them in this week!

[Jfs]

My Mother Cannabis 2021 is Indica 90% & 10 % Sativa - Blue Cheese- 45 Days from Seeds.. 10 inches tall with 7 node sites...Looking Awesome !
36- Tomato of 3 Types, All up in 5 Days in Grodan Rockwool cubes and dome.. Peppers are not peeping yet..
Going to be a great greenhouse and yard season !!
I have learned so much and am looking forward to trying some new methods..

[owlhoot]

Who’s got some seeds in the soil... about. 1800 peppers in starting soil... this year, got heating mats, grow lights ..see if those make a difference!

What do you do with 1800 pepper plants? LOL
I planted 24 pepper plants yesterday, Two different types, going to try some LED grow lights rather than rely on the sun through the garage's south window.
I'll do maybe 24 Tomato plants in a couple of weeks.
I make compost and work it in and last year I got a truck load of well rotted manure, Should be a good year

[Tungsten,]

Tomatoes seeds planting today.Taking out the begonias also today.
Ive been cooking soil the last month in my garage,exited to see what it will do.
Built a few SIPS from 27 gallon totes,will try these with my tomatoes.

[harv3589]

New raised beds built just need to get dirt into them. They should produce good.

[threeforthree]

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Big transplant day tomorrow.

[Lornce]

Beans garlic and Onions are inthe ground. Tomatoes, Peppers and Squash popping up in the house.

[Sundancefisher]

I’m so looking forward to gardening. For me it’s waiting for the greenhouse to open. Of course it would be nice for the ground to thaw. Need to dig and rototill.

[CNP]

26 day growing season in CNP. No serious gardening here.

[ol whitey]

New raised beds built just need to get dirt into them. They should produce good.

I'll admit I'm no gardner but I'm thinking of making a raised bed as well for potatoes.I have some good sized timbers 3ftx6ftx12in deep would that work for a few spuds for me and the wife?

[Tungsten,]

I'll admit I'm no gardner but I'm thinking of making a raised bed as well for potatoes.I have some good sized timbers 3ftx6ftx12in deep would that work for a few spuds for me and the wife?

Potatoes grow in the mounds or hills you create around the plant. The roots go down into the soil. So as long as you have dirt your good. No need for a raised bed for potatoes. They use up a lot of space. Save the raised beds for your root veggies.

[IronNoggin]

Cold frame off the garlic yesterday. Average around 8 - 10 inches already.
Bulbils into the ground tomorrow.

Hauling soil and manure again today.

The rest will now follow swiftly...

Cheers,
Nog

[Gifted Intuitive]

https://www.magicgardenseeds.com/The-Good-To-Know/Wild-opium-lettuce-(Lactuca-virosa)-A.LAC02-

[Tungsten,]

Frig everything was going great being able to leave plants outside at night,all back inside again.Friggen cold.
Covered my onions and a couple tomato plants.Looks like 3 more nights of keeping stuff inside then I think will be ok.
Planting my root veggies on Sunday,hope for the best.

[pikeman06]

I planted everything a couple days ago, I've had this cold weather happen before and as long as nothing has sprouted, it should be fine. Thankfully held off on the flowers and tomatoes and my peppers I grow in pots so things should be okay. I few scraggly zuchinni plants I put in are covered but may have to reseed them.

[Sundancefisher]

I have my potatoes in the ground now for almost two weeks. Hopefully they won’t sprout to surface until after the frost and snow over the next two days.

I have planted green beans and a purple green bean. I have giant kohlrabi seeds in as well as carrots.

My butternut squash are in pots ready to in this weekend.

I scaled down my variety this year and planted only our most eaten veggies.

The kohlrabi was a huge favourite. I love them cleaned and cut up in the fridge for a cold snack on a hot day. Also fried or baked as a veggie with oil salt and pepper.

I sadly had my favourite ornamental dogwood shrub die over the winter. I am wondering what to plant.

I am think of something with large flowers that blooms a lot. Maybe I should just make it an annual pot of some kind.

My saskatoons had mummy berry disease last year. Hoping for better this year.

My currents seem to be struggling this spring. Poor foliage.

[leo]

Who’s got some seeds in the soil... about. 1800 peppers in starting soil... this year, got heating mats, grow lights ..see if those make a difference!

Looking good buddy! We put the whole garden in last Sunday. 47 hills of spuds, 1 row peas, 2 rows carrotts, Beets, cucumbers and dill. Tomotoes and peppers are in the greenhouse. Just bedding plants to put in when the cold snap buggers off.

[Red Bullets]

I miss gardening. Used to put in a half acre garden to share with my folks.

Years ago I got a started pineapple plant that produced a pineapple. I was thinking of growing one on my balcony now. Thought I would pass on the info on how to. If you start now with the cut off green top of a pineapple you can have a full sized pineapple in one year. Would have to be potted so you take it in for the winter and keep it in a sunny window. More of a tasty novelty unless a person started more than one.

https://aprilgolightly.com/how-to-grow-pineapple/?fbclid=IwAR0xDT7_He6UAA37IgFmmEh4xtVYsfkpf5Yo9PU2 HScl-XFfZ57j7GcxcYc

[RandyBoBandy]

I miss gardening. Used to put in a half acre garden to share with my folks.

Years ago I got a started pineapple plant that produced a pineapple. I was thinking of growing one on my balcony now. Thought I would pass on the info on how to. If you start now with the cut off green top of a pineapple you can have a full sized pineapple in one year. Would have to be potted so you take it in for the winter and keep it in a sunny window. More of a tasty novelty unless a person started more than one.

https://aprilgolightly.com/how-to-grow-pineapple/?fbclid=IwAR0xDT7_He6UAA37IgFmmEh4xtVYsfkpf5Yo9PU2 HScl-XFfZ57j7GcxcYc

Very very interested :)

[buckbrush]

I miss gardening. Used to put in a half acre garden to share with my folks.

Years ago I got a started pineapple plant that produced a pineapple. I was thinking of growing one on my balcony now. Thought I would pass on the info on how to. If you start now with the cut off green top of a pineapple you can have a full sized pineapple in one year. Would have to be potted so you take it in for the winter and keep it in a sunny window. More of a tasty novelty unless a person started more than one.

https://aprilgolightly.com/how-to-grow-pineapple/?fbclid=IwAR0xDT7_He6UAA37IgFmmEh4xtVYsfkpf5Yo9PU2 HScl-XFfZ57j7GcxcYc

I might have to get the kids to try this. Thanks.

My garden...I've been slacking. 4 rows (100') of spuds in and some peas coming up. Not doing a massive garden this year.

I did find about 10 spinach plants that are all about 8" tall from a plant I let go to seed last year. Makes for some nice fresh greens, I didn't realize spinach could handle a heavy frost.

[threeforthree]

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propane store is lovin the next 5 nights

[WayneChristie]

I just went out and knocked all the heavy snow :sign0176: off my fruit trees, hopefully the blossoms make it through this weather.

[Dale S]

Everything is covered. The ice fishing tent works well over the tomatoes. The spuds should be alright. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210521/f6dfe4851bdc84c79801c333ea148f7b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210521/369044f6ea260a03fb355a61ded1ccd4.jpg

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[bessiedog]

Not really gardening.... but all my lilac buds look like they are toast due to this 1 foot dump of snow..... ugh.

[owlhoot]

I didn't see this snow coming, it wasn't in the two week forcast when I the planted 26 tomato's , I have a heater under the tarp and its only minus 1 at night, Fingers are crossed
https://i.imgur.com/U6azfo1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ntJtob4.jpg

[IronNoggin]

A first for me!!

https://i.imgur.com/9OyzNPY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TYEz5Gg.jpg

Yep, those are garlic scapes forming. On the first of June?? WTH??

They've topped four feet already, and have a nice average diameter:

https://i.imgur.com/xpiyxRJ.jpg

But I've never even heard of scapes being developed this early, ever.
Methinks that signals we are in for a somewhat early harvest.
Hope the weather stays warm...

Cheers,
Nog

[Lornce]

Lost my 10 tomato and pepper plants, first year the frost got em. Looks like I need to find store bought.

[pittman]

Anyone have a Valiant grape they'd part with? I'm looking for one more...

[fishnguy]

The earliest tomatoes (even though these are just grape tomatoes) I have ever had:

https://i.postimg.cc/C1V3fv2Y/15046289-067-D-4-AC2-87-A8-A3-DC4668-D529.jpg

[fishnguy]

Lost my 10 tomato and pepper plants, first year the frost got em. Looks like I need to find store bought.
Tough luck. Happened to me last year. No frost in the forecast, but they got hammered the second night after I put them in. Luckily, I had a few left inside and my cousin hooked me up with a few of his spares.

[antlercarver]

We used to plant certain seeds in the fall after the temperature dropped enough that the seeds would not sprout. If they sprouted then they would die in the winter. I think we planted onion sets, garlic, peas. radish,carrots,turnip and I can`t remember what else. Similar to how wild plants work.

[Dale S]

Everything seems to have made it threw the snow.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210604/aa6ded76d51122ca2cbf365f8587c64d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210604/3bc644829c0ddfb8e18a272f732166b1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210604/24b0addc131858f1dae8bef96ea6ecd7.jpg

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[IronNoggin]

Less than a week later:

https://i.imgur.com/u0y3qjR.jpg

And damn near all of them are going now!

https://i.imgur.com/k64sKDz.jpg

The strawberries also decided to give them a run for being first harvest:

https://i.imgur.com/5n3pNva.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SWdWZVL.jpg

Cheers,
Nog

[Tungsten,]

Lo of 3c here tonight in Calgary,really getting sick of moving everything.Cold frames are OK for the veggies its all the wife's begonias etc.That gotta go into the garage.
Lets hope this is the last sub 5c night.

[WayneChristie]

maybe need to try a different fertilizer?

[Dale S]

The heat is making things grow and ripenhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210614/c02c64eef0ae37f9acda5ee37bf6aea9.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210614/1a24b03e4e263a89115c2980f300e4b3.jpg

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[Tungsten,]

Potato wilting hot today,everything of mine is so far behind ill be harvesting frozen veggies ha.

[pitw]

Potato wilting hot today,everything of mine is so far behind ill be harvesting frozen veggies ha.

They will catch up.:sHa_shakeshout:

[Sundancefisher]

I just filled a couple buckets of weeds and mounded my potatoes.

When weeding the potato’s I found someone dug up one of the mounds to get to a bunch of perch.

So... now my two skunk traps are set with dead perch chunks.

Man I need to buy a trail cam.

[Sundancefisher]

Anyone use clean wood ash in their garden or compost?

[Sundancefisher]

A first for me!!

Yep, those are garlic scapes forming. On the first of June?? WTH??

They've topped four feet already, and have a nice average diameter:

But I've never even heard of scapes being developed this early, ever.
Methinks that signals we are in for a somewhat early harvest.
Hope the weather stays warm...

Cheers,
Nog

So I planted garlic late. Had some old Cloves in the fridge. They have sprouted above ground. So now they won’t create edible garlic cloves until next year or will I have some in the Fall?

[Tungsten,]

Anyone use clean wood ash in their garden or compost?

Good source of potassium,Ca and Mg.Will also bring pH up.Ive added it to compost but never directly to plants.

[owlhoot]

Good source of potassium,Ca and Mg.Will also bring pH up.Ive added it to compost but never directly to plants.

I've added wood ash for years, now my PH is a TOO high and I'm trying to get it down. It's a good idea to do a PH test before adding anything

[Sundancefisher]

I've added wood ash for years, now my PH is a TOO high and I'm trying to get it down. It's a good idea to do a PH test before adding anything

My ph is good or could use a little more sulphur.

[Dale S]

Potatoes are coming along. Just a few for supper
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[Sundancefisher]

Potatoes are coming along. Just a few for supper
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Very nice. My plants are looking good.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4h5ZyUVoAMeyQk?format=jpg&name=large

[nelsonob1]

My ph is good or could use a little more sulphur.

If you ph is good then you can add directly to soil, but not too much. Also keep it away from spuds, it promotes scab fungus.

Dont add ash from news paper burning - it has r3sidual chemicals you dont want in your soil.

[nelsonob1]

I built a greenhouse this year and finding that the tomotoes are doing much better. Also i have put my cucumbers in hanging baskets and they seem to like it. I read that the cukes grow straighter if they hang vertically and they tak3 up less space. If i can figure out how to post a picture i will add.

[Dale S]

A bumper crop of strawberries. Strawberrie jam on the way. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210623/55791275e0619653f6ffef00ecffdd96.jpg

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[HunterDave]

Does anyone add anything to their soil after their potatoes have sprouted and /or when mounding them? I’d like to know if there is something that I should be doing to increase my harvest and/or increase the size of the potatoes. I grow mine in tires and only water once a week and mound them when it’s time.
Would adding blood meal to the soil that I use to mound them help accomplish that?

[aulrich]

Isn't blood meal mostly nitrogen so it would help grow bigger tops but I don't know if that would translate to more potatoes or just bigger tops. But this is my first year of conventional gardening.

For me I rented a plot just out of town the potatos onions and beans are going ok, along with the cabbage and pumpkin I transplanted last week, but I probably lost one of the pumpkin.

None of my carrots beets or cucumbers sprouted so I have replanted them and I am making sure that I am out watering at least every second day especially with next week's heat.

In the yard it looks like I will get some haskap berries soon. I even got a berry or two on last years new additions.

I should get a reasonable amount of cherries but that cold snap may have messed the pollination so rather than having more than I can use I will get some for a batch or two of jam, but time will tell.

Most of the raspberries I planted last year did not return but the ones that did are already throwing suckers so another year or two for those.

I was pleasantly surprised by how many of my strawberries survived me pulling the landscape fabric out of the beds. Now without the fabric messing up the runners I should get the beds properly ground covered with strawberries.

This years grow of that other plant is going ok but the new pup has developed a hate on for one pot and keeps digging out the seedling from that one pot.

[Tungsten,]

Does anyone add anything to their soil after their potatoes have sprouted and /or when mounding them? I’d like to know if there is something that I should be doing to increase my harvest and/or increase the size of the potatoes. I grow mine in tires and only water once a week and mound them when it’s time.
Would adding blood meal to the soil that I use to mound them help accomplish that?

No,potatoes like all root vegetables like more P and K.Blood meal is 10-0-0 ish,you want more of a 5-10-10.Blood meal will also attract dogs/yotes to dig.

Bone meal would be a better choice,but organic means you fertilize for next year so maybe to late to get it to break down for this year.Some water soluble stuff would kick them into high gear the quickest.

[IronNoggin]

So I planted garlic late. Had some old Cloves in the fridge. They have sprouted above ground. So now they won’t create edible garlic cloves until next year or will I have some in the Fall?

Plant those right now.
They will be somewhat late, but serviceable.

Cheers,
Nog

[Sundancefisher]

Plant those right now.
They will be somewhat late, but serviceable.

Cheers,
Nog

Done. Some are growing up already. I read that the leaves can be cooked like chives for a mild garlic flavour.

[Sundancefisher]

Lots of heat and sun coming. Hopefully no thunderstorms.

I’m thinking watering morning and night with some fertilizer and heat should really make the garden grow

[owlhoot]

We had +37 in the Hat a couple weeks ago, It scalded the spinach and beet leaves and made the lettuce bolt and go to seed

[Sundancefisher]

We had +37 in the Hat a couple weeks ago, It scalded the spinach and beet leaves and made the lettuce bolt and go to seed

Yikes. Maybe I need to buy more shade cover.

[jungleboy]

We pulled all the radishes and planted a second crop. Wifey made pickled radishes for the first time , very tasty!

[bsmitty27]

Its been a good year so far. Asparagus has been amazing, tomato/carrots/peas are coming along. We had an issue with rodents in horticulture mounds last couple years. Started transplanting snakes in to them and its been great. No more rodents.

We now have way more haskaps than the 6 of us can eat, guna start drying them, saskatoons bushes are full, going to get my first cherries this year, apple grafts are taking good, did have some die back on some of last years grafts, and my pear on Saskatoon grafts, but no die back on appricot grafts. Looking forward to next year, hope some of these fruit trees get in to productionhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210625/ee790f59491dfd3c316e31cfd179a4ef.jpg

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[Tungsten,]

With this crazy heat Im now shading most of my root veggies with lath and what not.They seem to like it.

[Sundancefisher]

Its been a good year so far. Asparagus has been amazing, tomato/carrots/peas are coming along. We had an issue with rodents in horticulture mounds last couple years. Started transplanting snakes in to them and its been great. No more rodents.

We now have way more haskaps than the 6 of us can eat, guna start drying them, saskatoons bushes are full, going to get my first cherries this year, apple grafts are taking good, did have some die back on some of last years grafts, and my pear on Saskatoon grafts, but no die back on appricot grafts. Looking forward to next year, hope some of these fruit trees get in to productionhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210625/ee790f59491dfd3c316e31cfd179a4ef.jpg

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My saskatoons got mummy berry. Any suggestions? Greenhouse said because we have evergreens nearby that I’m SOL.

I lightly dusted with sulphur powder to hopefully hurt the fungus but I’m depressed. I love saskatoons.

[Tungsten,]

My saskatoons got mummy berry. Any suggestions? Greenhouse said because we have evergreens nearby that I’m SOL.

I lightly dusted with sulphur powder to hopefully hurt the fungus but I’m depressed. I love saskatoons.

Ill have to google mummy berry,never herd that before.Is it like PM?

[Sundancefisher]

Ill have to google mummy berry,never herd that before.Is it like PM?

It’s a fungus. Attacks blueberries, saskatoons etc.

Cause the berries to dry up on the plant. Like a dried mummy...

[bsmitty27]

My saskatoons got mummy berry. Any suggestions? Greenhouse said because we have evergreens nearby that I’m SOL.

I lightly dusted with sulphur powder to hopefully hurt the fungus but I’m depressed. I love saskatoons.


Ive not had mummy berry on any of my plants so im of no helo there. Hope it only happens rarely. Its a shape to lose any berries.
Ive had black leaf/witches broom on my wild saskatoon trees and am vigilant about cutting it out. I have also had juniper rust, believe we got it from arbourist wood chips, there aren't any juniper around me for miles, so im thinking it should just be the one year.

[Lornce]

Put in haskaps last year, they bloomed heavenly but I notices there does not seem to be any berries where the buds where. Maybe the heat.

[Sundancefisher]

Potatoes are growing fast in this heat.

My peas are starting to bloom.

Butternut squash love the heat and are starting to take off.

[owlhoot]

The Wife picked a bowl of peas yesterday, Tasty little things, we just munch on them raw, I planted an early type and a later type to extend the season, Tried Mustard greens and arugula this year, they sure add to a salad

[IronNoggin]

Between the rather mild winter and the last heat wave, our garlic was ready for harvest yesterday. Earliest it has ever been! I'm OK with that as we will now grow a crop of small turnips in the same bed and they'll have plenty of time to grow to full term.

You can see that the lower 3/4 of the plants have browned up in the following picture. The plants have shrunk by a foot and a half in size as they matured:

https://i.imgur.com/6y4JKvD.jpg

This is what I look for as to timing the harvest - only a few leaves still green right on top:

https://i.imgur.com/FxbPO8z.jpg

The bulbs were all well formed and we again realized a nice average size. Remember, these are all the product of last year's bulbil plantings - that experiment is paying off very well:

https://i.imgur.com/NvPiTUm.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/m0V0jgJ.jpg

Sorted, graded and hung up to cure (the window behind them gets shuttered so they do not see much light):

https://i.imgur.com/hDAXEAO.jpg

After having a 4 foot wall of green screening the BarBee / sitting area, it sure looks barren with only the Bubil producers and a couple of late volunteers:

https://i.imgur.com/ixd1b6z.jpg

Last year's Bubil crop, next year's seed, is doing rather well:

https://i.imgur.com/X8PtDxw.jpg

And this year's Bulbil crop - seed for 2 years down the line, are forming up nicely as well:

https://i.imgur.com/xbSupMh.jpg

We'll be harvesting those within a couple weeks I'd guess, which besides putting the garlic into the cold room after they cure, will be a wrap for this season's garlic efforts.

99 in hand again! :sHa_shakeshout:

Cheers,
Nog

[owlhoot]

Nice Garlic Nog,
I picked my scapes a week ago, 60 of them, and the tops are just starting to dry, Won't be long now

[Dale S]

Potatos did well with the heat and lots of water. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210711/b4aba714c9179f6572d6cf59dbc8499e.jpg

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[CaberTosser]

For the first time, we've got some zucchini on the go and those are doing well. I built some 8' long fence-mounted planter boxes in which we're growing climbers such as peas and beans, having them tight to the fence like that seems to do nicely. I've lined the planter boxes with landscape fabric that I've wrapped around some old chloroplast election signs and stapled in using stainless steel staples. I should be able to build about 4 more for another 36' of peas and beans, based on my remaining fence sections that get sufficient sunlight (I'm in a 1950's neighborhood with lots of mature trees)

I was noticing our Evans sour cherry trees were not fruiting as much as they have in previous years, and I think I have myself to blame. When I was harvesting last year I was pulling the fruit off the stem and leaving the stems on the tree, most of those remained on without the weight of the fruit to pull them off. I theorized that those nodules from which the fruit sprout won't flower when there is still a stem attached, and some reading seemed to confirm this. Interesting little ways in which a person can affect yield. I've pulled off all the stems I can reach without a ladder and will try to be observant if any of them can still come around (there are still some late flowers appearing as of today). Perhaps I'll mark some of the branches where I just removed lots of last years dead stems using a ribbon. I'll take some photos so I can gauge whether anything still happens this year, or if I'll have to wait for next year. Lesson learned, I thought I'd pass it on.

[Sundancefisher]

I have a couple nice cucumbers now.

I was scoping out my kohlrabi and I had a ton of cabbage moth caterpillars on them. I’ve sent two days plucking and squishing. I have two rows under a bug net.

What do others do to combat cabbage moths?

[Zip-in-Z]

When you live in a condo your garden is downsized into pots. Can't believe how tall the Orange Cherry tomatoes have grown so far from 2 seeds this spring. The other tomato plant is grown from seed as well, not sure of the variety, seeds came from SoCalif.

D.

https://i.imgur.com/7fKEs6S.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/9qP7bBZ.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/Df4ysWd.jpg



Cherry Tomato Plant - 52" & Still Growing!


https://i.imgur.com/Sl4TpMZ.jpg

[bonedogg]

Between the rather mild winter and the last heat wave, our garlic was ready for harvest yesterday. Earliest it has ever been! I'm OK with that as we will now grow a crop of small turnips in the same bed and they'll have plenty of time to grow to full term.

You can see that the lower 3/4 of the plants have browned up in the following picture. The plants have shrunk by a foot and a half in size as they matured:

https://i.imgur.com/6y4JKvD.jpg

This is what I look for as to timing the harvest - only a few leaves still green right on top:

https://i.imgur.com/FxbPO8z.jpg
them two bushes in front of the truck was a subtle cameo......

nice !

The bulbs were all well formed and we again realized a nice average size. Remember, these are all the product of last year's bulbil plantings - that experiment is paying off very well:

https://i.imgur.com/NvPiTUm.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/m0V0jgJ.jpg

Sorted, graded and hung up to cure (the window behind them gets shuttered so they do not see much light):

https://i.imgur.com/hDAXEAO.jpg

After having a 4 foot wall of green screening the BarBee / sitting area, it sure looks barren with only the Bubil producers and a couple of late volunteers:

https://i.imgur.com/ixd1b6z.jpg

Last year's Bubil crop, next year's seed, is doing rather well:

https://i.imgur.com/X8PtDxw.jpg

And this year's Bulbil crop - seed for 2 years down the line, are forming up nicely as well:

https://i.imgur.com/xbSupMh.jpg

We'll be harvesting those within a couple weeks I'd guess, which besides putting the garlic into the cold room after they cure, will be a wrap for this season's garlic efforts.

99 in hand again! :sHa_shakeshout:

Cheers,
Nog

them two bushes in front of the truck was a subtle cameo......

nice !

[Sundancefisher]

I have a couple nice cucumbers now.

I was scoping out my kohlrabi and I had a ton of cabbage moth caterpillars on them. I’ve sent two days plucking and squishing. I have two rows under a bug net.

What do others do to combat cabbage moths?

After 4 straight days of caterpillar hunting, today I only found 4.

Got to say next year, I’m buying the big mess that allows light and water through.

[Tungsten,]

After 4 straight days of caterpillar hunting, today I only found 4.

Got to say next year, I’m buying the big mess that allows light and water through.

I keep cleaning off little white eggs or whatever they are from the underside of kohlrabi leaves.

[Sundancefisher]

I keep cleaning off little white eggs or whatever they are from the underside of kohlrabi leaves.

So far haven’t seen that. I just have various sized caterpillars and one has a few aphids. I think the ants are raising them as they often do.

[Tungsten,]

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S https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210719/cd3b990818568e0486ce515247725639.jpgcan only do one pic at a time.


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[Sundancefisher]

60 days of since planting the potatoes.

Pretty good harvest. Enough to feed 10 from one plant.

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Left overs

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[Zip-in-Z]

60 days of since planting the potatoes.

Pretty good harvest. Enough to feed 10 from one plant.


Left overs




Nice haul ... poor Sundance if you have to feed 10 all the time .... :sHa_shakeshout:

[Sundancefisher]

Nice haul ... poor Sundance if you have to feed 10 all the time .... :sHa_shakeshout:

Just feeding 7 today. Well one eats like two.

[Tungsten,]

60 days? I thought they needed like 4 months?

[Sundancefisher]

60 days? I thought they needed like 4 months?

Nope. My rule of thumb is 60 days from planting to have new potatoes big enough to eat. They max out when the plants have died off. Most years I wait until fall to harvest. This year I am starting to eat them earlier. Less likely some will sprout in the cold room over winter.

This particular plant sprouted in the basement in late Feb. By May it looked like a long legged spider. I planted it and got potatoes off it.

[Tungsten,]

Good to know,Ive got 32 plants and the front row is taking over my lawn.Ill try digging one up.They are just starting to flower.
Thanks.

[MountainTi]

60 days? I thought they needed like 4 months?

I'm usually eating my first garden potatoes July 1st every year

[Tungsten,]

Well dug up one plant. Still pretty small. But mixed with a beet and some onions gonna be a tasty dinner. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210725/baf37f32fd1059eceee4b8a9f20ac2f6.jpg


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Well dug up one plant. Still pretty small. But mixed with a beet and some onions gonna be a tasty dinner. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210725/baf37f32fd1059eceee4b8a9f20ac2f6.jpg


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Not a many or as big as mine. Could just be variety, sun, fertilizer. Still…better than store bought. Yours grown with love.

[Fish along]

For the first time, we've got some zucchini on the go and those are doing well. I built some 8' long fence-mounted planter boxes in which we're growing climbers such as peas and beans, having them tight to the fence like that seems to do nicely. I've lined the planter boxes with landscape fabric that I've wrapped around some old chloroplast election signs and stapled in using stainless steel staples. I should be able to build about 4 more for another 36' of peas and beans, based on my remaining fence sections that get sufficient sunlight (I'm in a 1950's neighborhood with lots of mature trees)

I was noticing our Evans sour cherry trees were not fruiting as much as they have in previous years, and I think I have myself to blame. When I was harvesting last year I was pulling the fruit off the stem and leaving the stems on the tree, most of those remained on without the weight of the fruit to pull them off. I theorized that those nodules from which the fruit sprout won't flower when there is still a stem attached, and some reading seemed to confirm this. Interesting little ways in which a person can affect yield. I've pulled off all the stems I can reach without a ladder and will try to be observant if any of them can still come around (there are still some late flowers appearing as of today). Perhaps I'll mark some of the branches where I just removed lots of last years dead stems using a ribbon. I'll take some photos so I can gauge whether anything still happens this year, or if I'll have to wait for next year. Lesson learned, I thought I'd pass it on.
Good to know i was planning on doing that this year instead of regular pitting.. What do you do with them?

[Fish along]

I have a couple nice cucumbers now.

I was scoping out my kohlrabi and I had a ton of cabbage moth caterpillars on them. I’ve sent two days plucking and squishing. I have two rows under a bug net.

What do others do to combat cabbage moths?

They tell me you can purchase a cover for them at Lee Valley,its 50 fet long a7 feet wide for 32 bucks,ill be doing that next year, i did plastic with lots of venting this year,its to much ****[ing around watering and weeding.

[Sundancefisher]

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My gourmet purple beans look awesome and taste great. However once cooked they turn regular green colour.

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[Sundancefisher]

They tell me you can purchase a cover for them at Lee Valley,its 50 fet long a7 feet wide for 32 bucks,ill be doing that next year, i did plastic with lots of venting this year,its to much ****[ing around watering and weeding.

I’ll have to try that.

[Lornce]

I was noticing our Evans sour cherry trees were not fruiting as much as they have in previous years, and I think I have myself to blame. When I was harvesting last year I was pulling the fruit off the stem and leaving the stems on the tree, most of those remained on without the weight of the fruit to pull them off. I theorized that those nodules from which the fruit sprout won't flower when there is still a stem attached, and some reading seemed to confirm this. Interesting little ways in which a person can affect yield. I've pulled off all the stems I can reach without a ladder and will try to be observant if any of them can still come around (there are still some late flowers appearing as of today). Perhaps I'll mark some of the branches where I just removed lots of last years dead stems using a ribbon. I'll take some photos so I can gauge whether anything still happens this year, or if I'll have to wait for next year. Lesson learned, I thought I'd pass it on.
Growing up in BC and picking lots of cherries commercially it was important to pick them with stems, not only to have loggevity in storage but to insure next years crop.

[owlhoot]

I got a Bug-A-Salt gun from Cabellas, I've been wing shooting them
Yesterday I had some help from a spider
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[Sundancefisher]

So I planted daffodils and tulips about 5-7 years ago. There were much fewer tulips this year but tons of daffodils.

So I dug everything up. I separated the daffodils, tulips and crocus bulbs.

I had 5 massive clumps of daffodils. Went from 25 bulbs planted to separating them out and replanting about 100. Now I have 200 more to plant elsewhere.

Anyone else have their daffodils spread like crazy.

The tulips seem to have either not leafed this year, leafed but not flowered, got rot, got thrips or got eaten by squirrels.

Seems like daffodils are awesome. Planted a couple new varieties this year.

[Spidey]

First harvest - the weather stayed nice enough for these all to come off the vine like this. Not bad for a little container garden on the deck. My tomato plants were just under 60 inches high. There were about 20 more jalapenos in the first batch, but my daughter figured out how to make jalapeno cream cheese bacon poppers with the air fryer before I could get a picture..:)

Still lots more of everything on the vine and only had two frost nights so far, with great weather forecast this week.

Although I have to admit, it's a little surreal to be able to grow jalapenos and bell peppers in Canmore. All were started indoors from seed and hardened off outside by mid June. The bell peppers were an experiment with seeds from a Safeway pepper.

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[Sundancefisher]

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Mine is 6.4 inch diameter. 4.1 pounds.

[Tungsten,]

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Mine is 6.4 inch diameter. 4.1 pounds.

Ive been eating mine,they dont get a chance to grow that big.I do have one That Ive left,not as big as yours.Does frost bother them?

[Sundancefisher]

Ive been eating mine,they dont get a chance to grow that big.I do have one That Ive left,not as big as yours.Does frost bother them?

They seem fairly frost hardy. Already had two small frosts that took out my cucumbers and squash.

This is a giant variety. Doesn’t get woody through the middle.

[Dale S]

The gaint pumpkin like the heat this summer. 91 inches around. Maybe 300lbs. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210923/c728c06c06db007acdccebda2ba5a5b1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210923/395523d3f8efc713aa5b68f4282eeba9.jpg

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[Penner]

Although I have to admit, it's a little surreal to be able to grow jalapenos and bell peppers.

How did your spicy peppers turn out? I’ve grown a bunch over the years but find there isn’t much heat to them.

[Sundancefisher]

Snow and freezing temps are coming in 7 days.

My plan is to pull all my potatoes this week as well as try and power through pulling all the carrots and kohlrabi.

Snow and freezing ground means garden is running short on time.

[fishtank]

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Mine is 6.4 inch diameter. 4.1 pounds.
i find that best to eat em at about 3-4 in the dia,

[The Fisherman Guy]

We harvested our beets and carrots today. Beets did very well, carrots seem to get better every year. Installed a drip system this year, and did it ever help with a better yield.

Kohlrabi is one of our favorites, but the slugs cause havoc with them. Any advice to keep the Kohls slug-free?

[Sundancefisher]

We harvested our beets and carrots today. Beets did very well, carrots seem to get better every year. Installed a drip system this year, and did it ever help with a better yield.

Kohlrabi is one of our favorites, but the slugs cause havoc with them. Any advice to keep the Kohls slug-free?

Pull in more carrots and 1/3 of my potatoes. Also a few kohlrabi

But what was this growing on the potato?

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[Sundancefisher]

i find that best to eat em at about 3-4 in the dia,

Giant kohlrabi are just as good large as medium. This one is a 5 pounder.

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[Tungsten,]

My Mom says there not as tender when their big like that,Im on the fence,I have 6 more, one is huge so I can do a side by side taste test.

[Sundancefisher]

Ive been eating mine,they dont get a chance to grow that big.I do have one That Ive left,not as big as yours.Does frost bother them?

They are frost hardy. Had a hard frost last night. They are fine today.

I tried growing regular ones but I planted them late. I’ve been eating these for a while also.

If you’re in Calgary you can have a few of my big ones.

[Sundancefisher]

My Mom says there not as tender when their big like that,Im on the fence,I have 6 more, one is huge so I can do a side by side taste test.

I’ve eaten them small or large. Taste is the same. Regular kohlrabi as they get big they get woody throughout.

[fishtank]

I’ve eaten them small or large. Taste is the same. Regular kohlrabi as they get big they get woody throughout.

I have the regular one the seed were given to us slice it really thin (mandolin) and pan fried it with butter and mince garlic add little bit of water if you want to soften em up . .. where do you buy seeds for the giant ones ?

[Sundancefisher]

I have the regular one the seed were given to us slice it really thin (mandolin) and pan fried it with butter and mince garlic add little bit of water if you want to soften em up . .. where do you buy seeds for the giant ones ?

I’ve bought the giant kohlrabi seeds at Canadian Tire and Greengate. Had some once at Home Depot as well.

I love them raw but also in soups and baked with olive oil, garlic salt and pepper.

[Sundancefisher]

Being blessed with a great garden I offered up on Facebook for a new immigrant family to Calgary to come over and harvest some fresh veggies.

I was lucky enough to have a nice lady from the Ivory Coast come over tonight and she went home with a nice big bag of red potatoes, carrots, giant kohlrabi and Macintosh apples.

It’s amazing what we can take for granted living in Canada.

[pitw]

Here Again pulled his carrots on Sunday. I told him to eat one and he picked a yellow one to try.LOL

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[Sundancefisher]

Here Again pulled his carrots on Sunday. I told him to eat one and he picked a yellow one to try.LOL

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Pulled the last of my carrots in. 3 full xtra large zip lock bags worth. Also pulled all my Kohlrabi and potato’s.

I have way too many potatoes. Too bad you can’t freeze them.

[IronNoggin]

That time of year once again...

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Almost set for their winter slumber.
Once a few more leaves hit the ground, they will get their 4 - 5 inch blanket.
Soon...

Nog

[IronNoggin]

And that's a wrap:

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[Sundancefisher]

And that's a wrap:

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Nice.

I tried the planting garlic cloves sprouting from store bought and had a good harvest.

Still have a few carrots to eat. Lots of potatoes to consume and only a few giant kohlrabi left.

Overall a good gardening year.

[Savage Bacon]

The gaint pumpkin like the heat this summer. 91 inches around. Maybe 300lbs. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210923/c728c06c06db007acdccebda2ba5a5b1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210923/395523d3f8efc713aa5b68f4282eeba9.jpg

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