Fermented foods are supposed to be good for your innards, but something about it just seems revolting to me.
I never tried them. I am willing to try once. I can't see going through the effort of raising something and throwing it away. I am going to do a lot of canning. If I get enough figs we will have homemade fig presearves. It looks like we are going to get a few figs...will see.
Garlic in one onion like piece is termed, solo garlic. Apparently some like its' milder flavor. I won't bother. I grow garlic for a stronger than the grocery store garlic experience. Why it grew as a solo bulb I have not discovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_garlic Looks like mine too.
Anyone grow Boc Choi ? A friend is gonna give me a bunch of small plants. By the beach, Zone 10A&B border but never real hot. Should I plant it in partial sun for tenderness? Gracias.
Our first picking of sweet corn. Full ears and very sweet. This has been the best year for corn so far. And since I judge my garden by the corn crop....best year ever...!!!!!
When I planted mine it was in full sun. Had a pickup load. But that was in Indiana. I sold it to a Chinese restaurant.
I'm thinking that. Gonna try between the corn and / or fava beans And a few spots here and there in my garden. Deckle How's the Hurricane / Tropical Storm count coming? Same as yesterday's. My vote is for lots of them. Teach those Atlantic Coast people a lesson. Predictions vs Deus vult!
It is thunderstorming at the moment so I am not sure what the count is, but since I just ripped 48"X 50' of screen off my back porch to replace before it started raining assuming I had time to paint, let it dry, and reinstall tomorrow, I may not be as timely or accurate a source as the National Weather Service.
As a Free Range Gardener - I like stuff to go to seed and grow where it wills. Imagine how it stresses plants out to be forced into military style rows. Moi r > g
I don't know if planting in rows stresses them out but it does make harvesting less of a chore sometimes. My wife and I just spent 8 hours picking and putting up sweet corn. We have green beans, okra, cucumbers, and tomatoes to pick now and field peas and Lima beans later. Not to mention watermelon and other melons. Oh, I forgot to mention squash. We need a pathway to get to all of it and now even the pathways are closing up. I need my plants growing so I can pick them. I also need more canning jars and freezer space. My plants don't seem to be stressed. At least it isn't showing in yields. But please continue to garden any way you like....and good luck!!!
I live in a mid sixties Southern California Ranch Style home with a front yard and a back yard. The back yard has raised planter boxes and the front yard a garden patch. Here's a pic of me and my peas that went super this Spring. Planted previous X-Mas. By the time this was taken, squirrels had trampled the tops down. I stand about 6'. Thread Loyalist Know This Pic Is A Repeat. But, meant to demo my planter boxes.Seriously, the lettuce is free range and the corn, peas, fava beans are rows. I don't know what to call the asparagus. Onions planted here and there as space allows. This Autumn I plan to try spinach again. Similar to lettuce, I sprinkle several kinds of seeds and let those that like it here go for it. The bok choy seedlings given to me yesterday have been planted. Between corn or fava bean sprouts where there was an extra space. Updates as worthy. Moi r > g Mid Winter the tomatoes at Costco are labeled Product of Canada! How? Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic, regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.
