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First garlic harvest
On 6/29/2015 3:52 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote: ... We grow both garlic and onion chives, mostly around our fruit trees as they are supposed to keep borers away from the tree. So far it has worked. In addition we plant scallions, bunching onions, and regular onions. Generally we plant a few Texas 1015Y sweet onions too. Some of our bunching onions are the children of some a friend gave me over twenty years ago. Pull a bunch, put one or two back in the ground and cut the top off above the start of green. So far so good. garlic chives are a whole different plant than pulling garlic early to eat. we planted some garlic chives some years ago and i've yet to even try them, but i sure do like the plant and the flowers. We had another horizontal rain burst last evening, scared the heck out of us as we were sitting on the back porch when it hit. Got another two inches of rain out of it plus some corn stalks blown over. those sure can scare the heck out of a person and make them run for the basement! glad you didn't have worse damage. today, just had a bit of rain come through from the SE (which is very rare) -- looks like more may come through later on when the SE stuff runs into storms coming from the NW. interesting to see on the radar storms moving from the SE to the NW and then also a few miles below storms going from the W to the E. the forecast only had a 30% chance of rain for us so i watered earlier in the day because the seeds needed to be moistened anyways. songbird I gave up on garlic in the garden years ago, did have some success with elephant garlic and everyone in the family seemed to like the mild variety. The chives do well for us though. |
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