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garlic
Jun 27, 2009 | 10:52 AM PST
Tags: garlic , onion

I harvested the rest of the garlic today. It was in the ground too long I think. Some of them had spider eggs around the bottom of the stems. I left them for the animals. 

I got what I wanted and am in the process of curing them now. 

I also started to gather some onion. Much better than last year. I didn't cut the tops off this time and let the energy of the plant go into the bulb. I've got some decent sized onion this year.

I only dug up 3 for now. Harvest isn't officially for another month even though the onion are edible at all stages.

I'm so excited. I found another cucumber baby in the garden. I also think I should have little baby tomatoes by the beginning of next week.

harvesting garlic
Jun 18, 2009 | 9:45 AM PST
Tags: garlic , zuchinni

It's a great feeling to go into the yard to pick out garlic fresh from the ground. Found out that store bought garlic does grow. 

My idiot self didn't use enough fertlizer while the garlic was in teh ground. So they are all really small. The largest so far being and inch high and wide. There isn't much odor either. I don't know if this is because they are store bought or because they are small. 

I smell the garlic in the cut part of the stem but not in the cloves themselves.

I had to use pesticide on my zuchinni. :(

I've got cucumber beetles. The first application didn't get rid of them. So I reapplied. I will not use anymore. If the plant dies, it dies. I will try again next year. I mean hey, at least this year I got to see fruit where as last year the plant kept turning brown and dying and all I got were male flowers.

Oh Boy!!!!
Jan 15, 2009 | 5:36 AM PST
Tags: rain , garlic , garden

For the past month most days it's been heavy downpour. Usually I don't mind the rain except for the fact that it let me know that my garden is on a slight slope and the bottom half of the garden was under water with my garlic being flooded in the process. It's still alive amazingly enough and we've dug a trench to keep most of the water out but we are seriously going to have to rebuild the garden when it gets warmer out. Maybe do it in a box garden fashion. 

I wish I knew I was going to run into this sooner.

Garlic
Nov 2, 2008 | 5:38 AM PST
Tags: garlic , flagstones

I planted all the garlic the other day. Yay!!!  Hope it does well. 

I got some flagstones to makes paths but it wasn't enough. Maybe 20 more stones. In the spring we will put up a fence. 

 

Bulbs
Oct 11, 2008 | 9:02 AM PST
Tags: Halloween , bulbs , garlic

I got productive and planted every single tulip, crocus, and daffodil bulb I've had hanging around for the past year. I'm sure some of them are dead but you never know. 

I finally got my garlic in so I will be planting in a couple of weeks. I have garlic bought online and garlic that I saved from the store. I will separate them so I can figure out if store bought really does grow and if so then I will no longer buy online.

Yay for Autumn. I love this time of year. I love the smell of the trees and the air and the foods that come with harvest and I especially love Halloween. I can't celebrate this year because too many people have requested time off for that day and since I am a manager that means I work.I look forward to when I don't have to work nights anymore and I can enjoy my very few holiday of the year that I actually celebrate.