re: 2019 Garden Thread

Bought some seeds online last summer which I thought were cucumber seeds. Now I’m not do sure. What do you think it is?

I have my first couple of garlic sprouts poking out of the ground.

Onion is coming in pretty well and I'll have to thin them out a bit to give them room.

Carrots didn't germinate as well as the onion but I got enough and there's a little seed left over if I want to fill in.

Not crazy about the temp getting into the 30s on Thursday though. I'll have to cover the tomatoes to be safe. I need my lone okra plant to hang in there to let the pod at the top dry out to recover those seeds for spring.

Yeah I still have some seeds left over. I was just going to compare germ rate between the older ones and fresh for no other reason the curiosity.

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They state it doesn't harm the cloves what so ever and treated cloves do much better than untreated. I think I'm going to try it

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And here I have just been putting individual cloves in the ground for years and have had great garlic crops every year.

I usually plant about 150 cloves and almost all of them sprout, overwinter and by early summer they are ready to pull and dry.

They are not a quick growing/developing plant to say the least. It takes 7-8 months of growing to get good heads.

Yeah for mold issues, etc. Last year when I tried growing garlic it did well at first. Once the spring started they blew up some more and then they just started to dry out with out producing any scapes. I did have a fungus growing on the roots. So that is why I'm going to try it, but if you have had success, don't change it.

This is my first crack at it so we will see. Hopefully being in a raised bed will help with any moisture issues.

Well the tomatoes survived the cold, it got nowhere near the low of 34 they were projecting. Closer to 38-39.

So far I’m 30/40 on the garlic with new ones popping up every day. That’s probably what I’m most excited for.

My yellow granex onion will need to be thinned soon and I’ll have to reseed with what I have left of my danver carrots. I didn’t get great germ rate with them.

I’ll probably use someone other than reimer seed next time. Overall I haven’t been impressed. When I ordered the garlic from Rare seed, I ordered some Tabasco seed. I did everything the same as the Tabasco seed I got from reimer and previously had failed 3-4 times to get any germination. The Rare Seed Tabasco went 3-3 my first try.

Thanks, I had never heard of them.

Taking a quick look at their site, they have a ridiculous garlic selection!

I had the same exact thing happen to my romaine lettuce today. I’m hoping water does the trick. They were fine 2 days ago.

Blight on what? I get it on my tomato’s occasionally and have relegated to old fashioned crop rotation. If I plant in the same garden the next year about half my tomato’s gets bought.