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Home Garden 2024 / 2025

My wife harvested the onions after the stalks were fully flopped over and they came up barely shallot sized :laughing
 
Abacinator said:
My wife harvested the onions after the stalks were fully flopped over and they came up barely shallot sized :laughing
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I got everything from itty bitty to dayyum Gina! sized onions. Those are official gardening terms btw.
 
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I seem to recall there's something about the proper depth at which to plant onions
 
If you buy the bundles with 6-7 inch leaves they should be planted so the leaves are not buried much. the onion sets (little bulbs) never worked well for me, they should be planted 1-2" in the ground according to the googles. I only use the transplants, never sets, they suck IMO. I also go down the rows with a claw thingy, and loosen up the soil every few weeks after they take root. Here's a crappy picture of my red onion haul, white onions coming soon!
 

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I planted onion sets last fall, they are bulbing up nicely to baseball size but quite a few are bolting. I've always planted starts in late January before but they sometimes bolted too. Seems to be related to too many springtime hot/cold temp swings.
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Meanwhile my garlic turned out great and has been curing for the past week.
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The last of my early carrots are pulled and in the fridge and a second crop is now finger size.
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Broccoli is one of my favorite veggies to grow with a fall planting for early spring harvest followed by a spring planting. My favorite variety is called Arcadia, which in my climate produces enormous main heads followed by weeks of secondary heads that gradually get too small to bother with. My spring planting is still producing side heads but the aphids are starting to take their toll so I will be pulling them out soon.

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My four tomato plants (one each of Juliet, early girl, Celebrity and Beefsteak) are growing like weeds and setting loads of fruit.
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Second plantings of chard and kale are growing well and I've been digging potatoes for a week or so. These are Yukon Gold. I love how creamy and tender home grown spuds are, and how quickly they cook.
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-Bill
 
Man, some of you, unlike me, are great at this.

Impressive.
 
Amazing gardens, wow!!

Many of my white onions bolted too, I snap the flowers off as soon as I see them.
 
Welp, Mrs. Husky broke through my defenses and chomped through the stalk of my lemon cucumber at the base, came home to a totally dead plant that just started producing. She had previous got to it a bit, but now it is totally dead. :rip

We've harvested all of the onions and garlic and are using them. They still need a bit of curing but I still eat them. Tomatoes are starting to come in quite a bit. Peppers are just starting to show fruit. The lettuces have all bolted but I got quite a bit from those plants, especially the ones that had partial shade. I'll take not of that for next year!
 
900ss said:
Beet greens can be used just like chard or other leafy greens. Yum, and nutritious.
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Absolutely! I did this with these beets as they were growing. My chard did not come up this season, I think my seeds were old.
 
I have come to the conclusion that I pretty much suck at growing things but it's kind of fun so I'll continue wasting my time for the most part.
 
Pink Eye Purple Hull cow peas.
I planted 3@40' rows this year after the last frost date to see how they would do. I have never planted a nitrogen fixing legume before but these looked easy to grow. They are also easy to tell when they are "ripe" and ready to pick (they turn purple). My soil is actually just sand so soil building is my current goal. We ended up with 3@5lb buckets of picked peas which we are drying to make seed stock for next year.
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blrmaker said:
Pink Eye Purple Hull cow peas.
I planted 3@40' rows this year after the last frost date to see how they would do. I have never planted a nitrogen fixing legume before but these looked easy to grow. They are also easy to tell when they are "ripe" and ready to pick (they turn purple). My soil is actually just sand so soil building is my current goal. We ended up with 3@5lb buckets of picked peas which we are drying to make seed stock for next year.View attachment 563656
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Cool beans (sorry, peas.....)
 
Anybody have experience with planting irises? I planted them a week ago and still not growth from the rhizomes and the leaves are still yellow or completely brown.
 
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