Fruit and vegetable gardens 2024

[H.A.F.]

After battling the chipmunks and randomly good/bad soil next year is pots. Tomatoes and peppers. Cloth pots have not been messed with by the chipmunks so all my old pots will get used. I can still bury them and let the roots go feral but some rootballs have been demolished by tunneling and others by soil that dries toooooo quick or tree roots drinking the water. .

I am starting all the cheapo raised beds I have as worm bins/potting soil for next year.

 

[H.A.F.]

I have a new round of flowers and baby peppers on several plants so I took all the adults. The best producers by far have been the Cubanelle, Santa Fe and Agoncagua (cubanelle twin). Also the Annaheim but it just got raped a few days ago. Some random sweet peppers, then the Aji Fantasy hots on the left. I have been waiting for one to turn so I could strip it. The plant has looked horrible from day one but made fruit. If I like these I'll plant more next year but this one is done.

The Principe Borghese determinate tomato gives me one of those trays each day. Because of all the rain I have to pull them as soon as they yellow or they split, but they ripen in three days and are fine. A lot of meat for a cherry size tomato. What I had frozen thawed when the power went out but it was still half frozen so I just made sauce - and got a gallon put away already. not much in it but salt and pepper, and garlic and onion powder to help thicken it a bit. I divide it in pints and it can be spaghetti or chili or soup or whatever. Concentrated like tomato boullion or something rather than canned tomato sauce.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Planting 2025's garlic.


I transplanted some brussel sprouts (topped and uncut) as a border to the rest of the bed.
I scraped the top layer of wood mulch and worked in in any remaining mulch to aerate the mix in the bed. I added alfalfa pellets, kelp meal, Jobes 4-4-4 and topped with leaf mulch because the the soil is very sandy so the organic matter won't hurt.


I'll top off the bed with more wood mulch in the spring (or after a good rain) once the leaves flatten out.

 

[H.A.F.]

Planting 2025's garlic.
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I transplanted some brussel sprouts (topped and uncut) as a border to the rest of the bed.
I scraped the top layer of wood mulch and worked in in any remaining mulch to aerate the mix in the bed. I added alfalfa pellets, kelp meal, Jobes 4-4-4 and topped with leaf mulch because the the soil is very sandy so the organic matter won't hurt.

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I'll top off the bed with more wood mulch in the spring (or after a good rain) once the leaves flatten out.

I ordered a garlic assortment from Baker Creek. Getting things set up to plant once I get an idea how many cloves I'll actually have to make room for.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

I ordered a garlic assortment from Baker Creek. Getting things set up to plant once I get an idea how many cloves I'll actually have to make room for.

It's the only thing I've successfully grown and dried the last three seasons
If I can get an awesome harvest anyone else here will kill it

 

[H.A.F.]

It's the only thing I've successfully grown and dried the last three seasons
If I can get an awesome harvest anyone else here will kill it

I have no clue if chipmunks eat garlic but I'm not chancing it. I'm gonna half-bury large cloth pots or something.

 

[Big Terps]

Planting 2025's garlic.
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I transplanted some brussel sprouts (topped and uncut) as a border to the rest of the bed.
I scraped the top layer of wood mulch and worked in in any remaining mulch to aerate the mix in the bed. I added alfalfa pellets, kelp meal, Jobes 4-4-4 and topped with leaf mulch because the the soil is very sandy so the organic matter won't hurt.

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I'll top off the bed with more wood mulch in the spring (or after a good rain) once the leaves flatten out.

Like the beds u and other have..
Also like ur Doberman...
She looks like a good dog.. out there with her Pops on duty watching for any enemies....

We had a pair when i was a kid.. good breed, protective..
Thx

 

[1oldfart]

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I ordered a garlic assortment from Baker Creek. Getting things set up to plant once I get an idea how many cloves I'll actually have to make room for.

cloves amoung garlic?

 

[H.A.F.]

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cloves amoung garlic?

whatever the little finger-parts are called. I think it is a garlic bulb, and the individual thingies are cloves (like in a recipe). But some have 20 on a small bulb or therre could be half a dozen on a big bulb.