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.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

I planted Musik garlic last year and they had five cloves per head. The heads i got from that bunch ranged from 3 to 5 cloves.

 

[1oldfart]

I planted Musik garlic last year and they had five cloves per head. The heads i got from that bunch ranged from 3 to 5 cloves.

sorry about that some times things just ,don't click just right in my old head!

 

[H.A.F.]

The Baker Creek assortment showed up. three varieties have 4 bulbs each but the elephant garlic was by weight.

The three varieties look great, and there might be 12-20 good cloves on each bulb. But they're small so they don't need as much room. I'll do some geometry on the bottom of a pot to figure out the best planting pattern to fit the most. The elephant garlic is not something i'd have ordered on it's own. There are some smalls that I will probably just stick in a tiny pot. But there are a few ginormous cloves that will get a special big pot to let them make more for next fall.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

I planting Elephant garlic along with the Musik last year and only one popped up in the spring. I planted more Elephant garlic in the spring and was surprised it worked out. Good luck with the garlic vato.

 

[H.A.F.]

I planting Elephant garlic along with the Musik last year and only one popped up in the spring. I planted more Elephant garlic in the spring and was surprised it worked out. Good luck with the garlic vato.

pretty sure the elephant stuff is soft neck. Been a while since i saw a whole head of it to see, but that would make sense. I understand the hard-neck are the over-winter varieties. I may save some to plant in spring.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

pretty sure the elephant stuff is soft neck. Been a while since i saw a whole head of it to see, but that would make sense. I understand the hard-neck are the over-winter varieties. I may save some to plant in spring.

It's good to know I can plant soft necks in the spring and have a bit of a staggered harvest.

 

[treefarmercharlie]

I amended all my beds and planted my garlic yesterday, Today finished cleaning them all up and mulched them for the winter.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

I amended all my beds and planted my garlic yesterday, Today finished cleaning them all up and mulched them for the winter.
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Is that asparagus in the back right bed?

 

[treefarmercharlie]

Is that asparagus in the back right bed?

It is. It did great last year (3rd year), but I think I did something that fucked it up at the end of the season, because it barely produced this year. I didn’t harvest anything from it this year and just left it alone so it could grow out and get stronger for next year.

 

[H.A.F.]

There's a freeze in the near future so this is the last round for the pepper plants. Several started putting out new flowers and that has been the trigger for me to pull the mature size fruit, regardless of color. These are actually the least bountiful. I have three more that have peppers galore. A Santa Fe, Anaheim and Serrano. Those have no new flowers and tons of peppers so I'm waiting until I have proof of a freeze.

The back row is Cubanelle, middle is Cal Bell and Agoncagua, right is thte Korea. I already have a jar full of dried flakes
Poblano, Ajavarski then mied Pimento and Paprika on the right.

 

[H.A.F.]

I gave land back to the forest to concentrate on a smaller garden and the beds. Gonna have all my tomatoes and peppers in cloth pots next year.
I just decided looking at the picture that the front area outside the fence will be garlic. I don't think the chipmunks will fuck with it but we'll see. That's great soil. I'm gonna keep building the soil up in the beds over the winter but I'm not worried about getting them full. Just well amended and aged. Shredded cardboard in the back leaf mulch and cover crop in the front. I left the little mullein plant middle-right should be cool when it flowers next year. The pentagon shaped compost cage has all the pepper and tomato stalks and rootballs. that is gonna be primo next spring. I added thin layers of soil as I stacked it to encourage decomp. Extra feed water from inside goes into that and the beds.

I designated the back area to strawberries, the former inside bulbs of crocus, and the neglected the blueberry bush. the two thyme plants will eventually cover that little slope before the inside fence. The celery back left has never made stalks but the leaves and fat stems add the flavor. That is horehound stretched up over the boulder and I am gonna get that chopped back and into the raised beds for mulch. I got a few pounds of lemon balm from the volunteer stuff and it all got composted.