Posted on 06/07/2013 1:13:59 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Garlic. In my home garlic is king - with my hubby. Most days this place smells of garlic so strongly that I look for a place to hide.
He just laughs at me. I like a mild amount of garlic in most things, but hubby is out of his mind when it comes to the stuff.
Is this garlic you’ve purchased somewhere or saved bulbs from last year?
My compost ‘mater has blooms. Everything else is suffering from way too much rain! Bah.
Oooh. Yep, I’ll be trying that this fall. I need easy now a days. Bits of me are staring to hurt like hell and it keeps me from the hard work.
They say you can still save seed from it as it is not suppose to affect it . You are suppose to trim off all the affected leaves and burn them though to keep it from spreading .
I had to pull my onions early because it started appearing on a few leaves (rains came early for me this year) and since it stunts bulb growth anyway for me it would have just been worse to just leave it .
If your bulbs are small this year you can always roast them in the oven . Makes them much easier to peel and then you can freeze them (taste great roasted too)
Glad I'm not married to him - I would be “sick by garlic” all the time. Even the smell is very bad for me. I'm also very allergic to iodine so no shrimp, crab, or clam. The last time I was sick due to iodine, I had one bite of a dip and it had crap in it and I didn't know it and for three days I was super nauseated, my whole skin turned red and I had chills for three days along with the nausea. It's on my medical record I can't have iodine.
Last year, I had double eye cataract surgery and I asked the surgeon what he was going to use to sterilize the area and he said betadine and I said no (that is an iodine prep). When he heard what it does to my body, he used something else.
I don't know why people's bodies are so different. We all have skin and organs and blood so why are some of us screwed up? Yes, I was an EMT and know all that stuff, but it's still skin and organs and blood.
I can eat as many peanuts as I want but peanuts will kill some people. I knew a couple whose young son almost died from catfish. He can't even be close to catfish or he has to go to the hospital or die.
I’ll have to remember that. I just spent all day trying to scrape enough room in the weeds for my corn to grow.
It pays to weed!
I found about 8 tiny asparagus seedlings on the downwind side of my female Jersey Knight that somehow ended up in the package of “all male” plants. There may be more, as I’m not finished...I “had” to go fishing.
I already transplanted 4 others that came up in the row; these are in the green beans & English peas rows.
Thanks Lera. I don’t dig it until the end of this month and into next as they have different maturity dates. The Chinese early pink and the tiny Vietnam white were dug 3 weeks ago and are not affected by the rust
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I think it’s possible that the variety of carrot could make a difference.
It is also possible that the person’s taster makes a difference. For example, I love red grapefruit it taste kinda sweet and sour to me.
For my husband, it tastes bitter. This is an inherited trait. Some people taste the bitter and others do not.
So maybe it’s something like that.
There is a definite advantage to the bags.
LOL. Been married 48 years, and this is the first time he ever raked leaves. Always before just ran the lawn mower over them and left the corners full. He’s just really getting into all this gardening.
LOL. Good for you. I am thinking I’ll be starting some tomatoes in a pot later this year so that I’ll have something to take outside next spring.
There’s got to be a way to have ripe tomatoes at home to eat with my spring lettuce.LOL
That’s correct. This year I just poked holes on one side of the bag, turned it over and laid it on top of the ground. Cut all around the other side of the bag, and planted.
Hence the bag itself was a little garden area about 24x18 inches. Did the same with a bag of top soil. Then mixed some top soil, m.room compost, and the soil in the raised bed (mel’s mix) to see which would do the best.
Straight m.room compost won hands down. Top soil came in last.
I almost never have much weeding to do. I plant stuff really close together, and mulch with straw, shredded newspaper, or brown mulch.
My squash is crowding out the green onion... no problem! Had to spray the BT spray today because we are getting gamed by cabbage worms. Pulled up the mesclun lettuce because it was the main attraction. I planted marigold through out but the worms are there... feasting on everything. Most worried about the green beans... hope what we sprayed today will be effective.
Our weeds laugh at mulch. After fighting their way up through 6 feet of subsoil, another 6 or 8” straw is a piece of cake!
I dumped 2 trailer loads of grass clipping in a big heap to use as mulch-—to save water; not smother weeds...and we have stuff that has grown from the ground emerging at the 3’ level.
Last year, I tried black plastic, but it only slowed down the weak ones; the survivors were stronger than ever; this year, their offspring have tiny Leathermen strapped to their stems.
Ouch that is still a long time to go till harvest .
You might have someone around you who is way over watering their crops causing it to bloom like crazy . The spores are carried on the wind so hard to keep it out of your beds if someone has a messy garden around you.
You could try spraying the good leaves with a little compost tea as long as your soil in that bed isn’t to rich.
It does have some anti fungal effect but rust is pretty hard to outright kill .
It’s such a shame . The pictures of it you posted a few weeks ago I drooled over ... nicest stand of garlic I have ever seen
LOL. Your weeds must have taken survivor training. One year I made a garden with bricks laid out an ellipe shape. I just turned the top layer with the grass over, then covered it with sheets of newpaper(not shredded) dumped bags of soil on it and planted stuff.
I didn’t have any weeds for 3 years, just the flowers and chives that I planted. Last year Hubby reseeded the grass, around the area and a bunch of his seed wound up getting blown into the area, so I may just let it go back to being part of the yard.LOL
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