What have you done in your garden today?

[itzj]

Weeded. Planted more corn and more bush beans. Snow pea crop pretty much failed, I think it was just too hot. I'll try again in the fall.

[ncsweetpea]

I pulled up some garlic and looked like very healthy scallions. When does it form heads?

[Macky]

I moved a clematis today; it's a cutting from one my grandfather had. I hope it does well in its new spot. Moved some wildflowers (also from my grandfather's garden) over to our pet cemetary. Hopefully the shade will keep them from spreading as fast as they did where they were before. I need to erradicate every root now from the area where they were... another day. I'm weeding and moving strawberries now, but taking a break for supper.

DH was painting the new pea trellis, but he's having a heck of a time with the Tremclad primer. I tried and got frustrated, too. It's thick as molasses, dries far too quickly and isn't brushing on the rebar very nicely. The paint is nice to brush at least.

Oh, and I mowed this morning. DH noticed that we're using hardly any gas now to keep up. When we get behind with the cutting, having to go slow eats up roughly a tank and a half to do the whole thing. I'm barely using any when I can whip around over normal growth.

[canadiyank]

Originally Posted by ncsweetpea

I pulled up some garlic and looked like very healthy scallions. When does it form heads?

Do you know if they're hardneck or softneck? My hardnecks form scapes (which I cut off - we ate them the other day, thanks to a suggestion here) and then when I harvest them (about July) most but not all have formed heads. I harvest them when about 2/3 of the leaves are brown...

[ncsweetpea]

I don't know if they are hard neck or soft neck. Is there a way to tell by looking at them? I didn't keep the package when we bought them.

[treehugginmama]

This weekend we weeding, spread DE and set the humane trap because something ate my leaves again!!! After they started looking good. Well we caught a ground hog. Cute little guy. I sure hope he likes his new home behind the library.

[canadiyank]

Originally Posted by ncsweetpea

I don't know if they are hard neck or soft neck. Is there a way to tell by looking at them? I didn't keep the package when we bought them.

Are they making scapes? (google images if you're not sure...long, thin, twisty stalk with a flower bud at the tip) Those are headnecks if they're making scapes. I don't know much about softnecks.

[Macky]

I've been out of commission practically all day over here, so nothing's been done out in the garden. It's mind-numbingly boring sitting/lying by one's self in a dark room, so when hubby got home from work, I set myself up with some pillows and an ice pack and finished off the book I got for Mother's Day - The Winter Harvest Handbook by Eliot Coleman. It's worth reading even if you don't garden in the off-season, if only for the last chapter, which is pretty much an extremely well-written soap box rant. Despite the fact that Coleman is a long-established organic farmer, he said a lot of things in there that reinforce why I don't seek out organic products at the grocery store. Most of the rant... er, I mean... last chapter of the book is part of an old essay of his that's readily available online, but it's not the whole thing. Anyway, kudos to Eliot on a great book.

[ncsweetpea]

No scapes. I have soft necks.

[blondie]

I watered today. Our cilantro is starting to come up.

[RiverRock]

I helped my youngest two plant carrots and beets for their school garden program. Dh built a new raised bed, and filled it with soil last weekend. If we get some dry patches we will add zinnias and lettuce tomorrow, and maybe the pole beans.

[canadiyank]

Originally Posted by ncsweetpea

No scapes. I have soft necks.

I would just wait until the regular harvest, then. They should form by then. If not, you will have one giant "clove" and in my experience it stores and tastes just fine.

[Naked Camper]

I picked about 2 pounds ( just guessing the amount) of green beans last night. We had some for dinner. So awesome to eat from our garden!!

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when will I know to pick my carrots?

[canadiyank]

I would pick one and see. I can usually judge by their "shoulders" sticking up out of the ground. Since I just use them fresh I harvest as needed.

[Macky]

What variety of bean is that?

Ditto. Pick and taste on the carrots.

I'm done with all this wind. It's seriously whipping the snot out of all my young transplants. We're not talking full gale forces, but when it's high and constant, they just don't have time to rest and grow and it whips the moisture out of the leaves soooo fast. The pumpkins and tomatoes are showing the most wind damage and on top of it, my tomatoes have a magnesium deficiency for the first time ever. Why are so many things going wrong for me this season?