Re: Gardens 2022
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:48 pm
Labor day 2022,
The garlic bulbs this year are the largest ever produced in our garden. They normally go into the ground in late November early December. This year other obligations delayed planting until spring. A mild thaw was just enough to allow a finger hole to be poked into the ground for a clove to be slightly covered. It worked. The beets were some of the last planting this summer. We hit a perfect rainfall that gave us good gemination. The beet tops will make great salad. This crop will be the first I have ever canned. 5 okra plants have produced well this year. 3 pods several times a week have been a breakfast staple for the last month. Watermelon has been a failure. The vine are hard to weed without damaging the young melon, 6 vines and 3 melons. Cantaloupe was also a fail due to critters eating them before they ripened. A friend has tried his hand at native gardening. He planted sunflowers as a dividing line. They have done well. He purchased 50 Brussel sprout plants at end of season for 10 cents each. Some of them may still have time to mature. Some of which he planted among the potatoes. He planted the 3 sisters, On each mound are 4 corn plants, 4 bean plants, and in between squash. last year this method produced over 200 squash. This year on new soil with no weeding there have been few blossoms and no squash set on. The 3 sisters didn't stand a chance this year. Although we picked a few beans this morning that have climbed several of the corn stalks.
The garlic bulbs this year are the largest ever produced in our garden. They normally go into the ground in late November early December. This year other obligations delayed planting until spring. A mild thaw was just enough to allow a finger hole to be poked into the ground for a clove to be slightly covered. It worked. The beets were some of the last planting this summer. We hit a perfect rainfall that gave us good gemination. The beet tops will make great salad. This crop will be the first I have ever canned. 5 okra plants have produced well this year. 3 pods several times a week have been a breakfast staple for the last month. Watermelon has been a failure. The vine are hard to weed without damaging the young melon, 6 vines and 3 melons. Cantaloupe was also a fail due to critters eating them before they ripened. A friend has tried his hand at native gardening. He planted sunflowers as a dividing line. They have done well. He purchased 50 Brussel sprout plants at end of season for 10 cents each. Some of them may still have time to mature. Some of which he planted among the potatoes. He planted the 3 sisters, On each mound are 4 corn plants, 4 bean plants, and in between squash. last year this method produced over 200 squash. This year on new soil with no weeding there have been few blossoms and no squash set on. The 3 sisters didn't stand a chance this year. Although we picked a few beans this morning that have climbed several of the corn stalks.