Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
I planted some Yukon Gold taters last summer , and they didn't do diddly -
maybe because I planted them kinda late . The rows are well defined , so I can avoid that area when I till new ground for next year - the question is should I leave them and hope for new growth and a crop next year or just till 'em under and try again ? I did dig a little and found a few very small potatoes , but nothing I felt was worth harvesting . Also , is this the right time to get garlic in the ground for next year ? As much as we like it I'd like to have some out in the garden , and try out using the scapes . note to self , get some daffydills for the wife this fall!! I'll be expanding the garden space next year down hill some more . The soil further from the edge of the woods seems much more fertile if this year's results are any indication , and while I'll lose part of the blackberry patch I feel the trade off is worth it - those berries grow wild all over the place up here and they're a bi**h to pick . -- Snag |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
"Snag" wrote:
Also , is this the right time to get garlic in the ground for next year ? As much as we like it I'd like to have some out in the garden , and try out using the scapes . note to self , get some daffydills for the wife this fall!! Where are you located? The rule of thumb for garlic is to plant 6-8 weeks before ground frost. You want the cloves to make root growth to anchor them, but little or no top growth to be winter damaged and cost them energy better used next spring. For me (upstate NY) hardneck types do better and, of course, make those scapes that SWMBO makes into pesto. -- Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
Snag wrote:
I planted some Yukon Gold taters last summer , and they didn't do diddly - maybe because I planted them kinda late . The rows are well defined , so I can avoid that area when I till new ground for next year - the question is should I leave them and hope for new growth and a crop next year or just till 'em under and try again ? I did dig a little and found a few very small potatoes , but nothing I felt was worth harvesting . tilling them under won't accomplish anything as the plants for next season will come up from the mini-potatoes so if you don't get all of those out of there you'll have sprouts next season. Also , is this the right time to get garlic in the ground for next year ? As much as we like it I'd like to have some out in the garden , and try out using the scapes . note to self , get some daffydills for the wife this fall!! planting time depends upon variety, but i have had no problems planting the hard-necked garlic as early as August and as late as November. plant the largest cloves possible. if planting from scapes, you will be waiting two years to harvest bulbs with cloves. the single bulb from a one year scape is edible but they are not easy to peel. instead i plant them a few inches deeper and use them as a green onion substitute through the winter and into spring (up until the plants start forming hard stems and the papery tunics on the cloves). I'll be expanding the garden space next year down hill some more . The soil further from the edge of the woods seems much more fertile if this year's results are any indication , and while I'll lose part of the blackberry patch I feel the trade off is worth it - those berries grow wild all over the place up here and they're a bi**h to pick . seedless variety is a great help and avoids much bloodshed. i won't let the thorny kind even get started around here, the red raspberries and wild roses are bad enough (and the sumac and poison ivy). songbird |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
songbird wrote:
Snag wrote: I planted some Yukon Gold taters last summer , and they didn't do diddly - maybe because I planted them kinda late . The rows are well defined , so I can avoid that area when I till new ground for next year - the question is should I leave them and hope for new growth and a crop next year or just till 'em under and try again ? I did dig a little and found a few very small potatoes , but nothing I felt was worth harvesting . tilling them under won't accomplish anything as the plants for next season will come up from the mini-potatoes so if you don't get all of those out of there you'll have sprouts next season. Eh , I was afraid of that . Mr Armadillo has been rooting for bugs in the tater patch , and he uncovered a few taters . I'll get the rest out before first frost . If they're gonna sprout , I want 'em to sprout where I want them to grow . Also , is this the right time to get garlic in the ground for next year ? As much as we like it I'd like to have some out in the garden , and try out using the scapes . note to self , get some daffydills for the wife this fall!! planting time depends upon variety, but i have had no problems planting the hard-necked garlic as early as August and as late as November. plant the largest cloves possible. if planting from scapes, you will be waiting two years to harvest bulbs with cloves. the single bulb from a one year scape is edible but they are not easy to peel. instead i plant them a few inches deeper and use them as a green onion substitute through the winter and into spring (up until the plants start forming hard stems and the papery tunics on the cloves). I cheaped out and picked up some bulk garlic at the store today . Big cloves will be going in the ground by week's end , time permitting we're building , or should I say I'm building the first room of our new house . I'll be expanding the garden space next year down hill some more . The soil further from the edge of the woods seems much more fertile if this year's results are any indication , and while I'll lose part of the blackberry patch I feel the trade off is worth it - those berries grow wild all over the place up here and they're a bi**h to pick . seedless variety is a great help and avoids much bloodshed. i won't let the thorny kind even get started around here, the red raspberries and wild roses are bad enough (and the sumac and poison ivy). songbird These are apparently native blackberries , and they do have vicious thorns .. This year was kinda exploratory , first summer I've been here full more or less time . Next year I expect to provide a significant contribution to our food supply . If the deer cooperate I'll be supplying some of the protein too ... -- Snag out in the shop |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
Derald wrote:
"Snag's Shop" wrote: If the deer cooperate I'll be supplying some of the protein too ... Remember that the girls -- the younger the better -- are the best eating and reducing their number is the _only_ reasonable way, aside from starvation or poisoning, to reduce the deer population. Some authorities estimate that east of the Rockies that population now exceeds what it was when Europeans arrived on the continent because "development" has eliminated their predators while providing habitat in which the deer thrive and current misguided hunting laws, promoted by hunting interests in the first half of the 20th Century, simply compound the problem. In several Southeastern states (Texas, for example), the whitetail population is now in the millions. Don't be "sporting" and waste your time and bullets on Bambi or his daddy; shoot his mamma at night when the gettin's good! Same goes for feral hogs: Shoot Petunia and don't waste your time on tough, greasy, gamey Porky Pig. That "sportsman" bullshit is for city folks who go to the woods to drink, tear them up with their pick'em-up trucks and to get away from their wives. In my view, their time would be better spent planting trees, a task easily accomplished while tipsey and at far less risk.... http://wildlifecontrol.info/pubs/Doc..._factsheet.pdf https://web.duke.edu/nicholas/bio217/ekc7/deer.htm I'm not a horn hunter , I'm in it for the meat . If a big buck walks in front of my sights , I'll pop him - if nothing else he'll make good jerky . But as you say , the younger the better , and I have no qualms at all about shooting does . Feral pigs are in our general area , but none close to our place . I'm trying to find a place to hunt them too ... we like pork . Oh , and we already have about 12 million trees on our place , only place left to plant any is the space cleared for our house , garden , etc . -- Snag But night hunting can get me jail time ... |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
Derald wrote:
"Snag" wrote: Oh , and we already have about 12 million trees on our place , only place left to plant any is the space cleared for our house , garden , etc . Oh, I was specifically referencing those "sportsmen" who'll don their Walmart camo, flood the woods in their shiny new Jeeps, get "likkered up", and commence shooting one another on the second Sunday of November -- too bad they're all such lousy shots. There's a world of difference between those folks and the serious "take only what you need and leave the rest" hunters among whom I was reared. But night hunting can get me jail time ... Indeed; and that is as it "should" be, IMO. ...but still, if you're in your own "back yard" and protecting your garden from vermin (Bambi-mamma), while the game warden is up at the Dunkin' Donuts, well.... Kinda hard to hear an arrow from the DD ... I had a conversation once with a game warden about "defending" my garden from deer . Bottom line is there better be a good fence . One of my neighbors has built an 8 foot fence around his garden because they kept jumping over the 7 foot one . I was kinda surprised I didn't have a problem last summer . Must have been because I didn't grow any of the stuff they really like . -- Snag |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
"Snag" wrote:
I was kinda surprised I didn't have a problem last summer . Must have been because I didn't grow any of the stuff they really like . I was told by a commercial farmer that you need to get the fencing up early, because if the deer ever find out there's something good in there, all bets are off. /me/ who loves Bambi au vin. -- Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
Gary Woods wrote:
"Snag" wrote: I was kinda surprised I didn't have a problem last summer . Must have been because I didn't grow any of the stuff they really like . I was told by a commercial farmer that you need to get the fencing up early, because if the deer ever find out there's something good in there, all bets are off. /me/ who loves Bambi au vin. Au vin is also a great way to tenderize . I make a marinade based on red or sherry and olive oil with spices for the tougher cuts of beef , makes a world of difference . -- Snag out in the shop |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Taters ...and garlic
Derald wrote:
"Snag" wrote: Bottom line is there better be a good fence . No doubt, he's correct; the proverbial word to the wise, I'd guess. One of my neighbors has built an 8 foot fence around his garden because they kept jumping over the 7 foot one . That's funny. I'd always heard that a 9-foot fence is required to keep deer out but that's probably apocryphal. Not a problem he Although we occasionally see deer sign in the driveway and along the fenceline adjacent the "hard road", I've never had a problem with deer in the garden in the 30-some years I've been coming to this location or in the 18 (included in the 30) that we've actually lived here full time. Of course, now that I've jinxed myself, that'll probably change. Bunnies, though, occasionally will nibble the terminal buds out of a few young pea vines but nothing serious (yard cats). I'm philosophical about that sort of thing, though, and just accept the nibbles as a tax I pay for invading their stomping grounds. I have a hard time with that "dominion over all things" stuff. But, then, I've never had a garden devastated by invaders, which might change my attitude somewhat. The deer here in North central Arkansas breed like rats ... and will eat everything they can get to especially in a dry year when their natural forage is skimpy . Last year was wet , might be part of the reason they stayed away . Our half-coyote dog might also be part of the reason , though they don't seem put off by her scent around the corn I put out by my game camera legal to hunt over bait here . -- Snag out in the shop |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
green taters | United Kingdom | |||
Garlic - garlic.jpg | Garden Photos | |||
Diggin taters | Gardening | |||
what happened to mah taters? | Edible Gardening | |||
My taters are dying:( | Gardening |