Summertime Gardens and Harvest

Thanks!!

Thnx for some positive things!

I Love those wooden boxes!

I've been growing garlic for a couple years now. Two things that you have to do is to cut the flowering bulb off as soon as it appears and harvest before the bottom leaves start to brown. This ensures that the paper around the bulb is completely formed. If you leave it too long, the paper disintegrates corresponding to the dying leaf above and the bulb becomes fractured.

Next year is going to be fun. I harvested about 200 bulbs this year, and will replant the best 150. 150 x 8 = 1200 bulbs next year. Then the fun really begins. 1100 x 8 = 8800.

You need to turn that lawn over man. More veggies!!

We're still recovering from the wildfire that burned everything down, it'll take a full season to do that.

Had rapini, cherry tomatoes, chard, all from volunteers.

Just planted the winter garden, it should start taking shape once the water gets repaired next week.

Where can we find lids for the canning jars?

Seems like the Great Reset also involves a halt to
canning organic garden foods. That is supposed to make us happy, I guess.

The quality of Ball's jars and lids has gone down and should be avoided. I use Kerr canning jars and lids. Easily found online. I think Walmart is the cheapest. They have 8, 16 and 32 oz jars and they sell cases.

For lids, try: [link to www.walmart.com (secure)]

That’s awesome OP! Nice stuff!

That’s funny – I just walked around filming my garden yesterday. I’ll be editing the video this weekend and bump your thread when it’s done.

My raspberries are looking sickly too. Blackberries are having no problems though.

My melons and squash are also thriving.

I’m in S. Oregon – zone 8b I think. We have a lot of the same veggies and trees.

Hope you do a Fall update video too!

Cheers.

My first green beans didn't do so well like last year...so I replanted some..I'm in the south, still time. Cucumbers doing well, tomatoes but I only have about ten of those plants, harvested a cantelope yesterday ...tasted a bit weird so I gave it to my hens to enjoy...loved it. Plus I have potatoes I grow in tires...only one zunchinni this year so far...my zucchini plants get this rot stuff on them then they die...I have a homesteading YouTube channel called Krissy Kinsey / Nellie's Farm if anyone is interested

OHM, I just had some Bigelow chamomile lavender tea and one of the ingredients is
red poppy petals.

I think I remember seeing some poppy seed pods in your garden.

most excellent!

yep, those lily white poppies are currently being converted into laudanum..

OOoohhhh how utterly fantastic!

I remember reading about collecting the sap when it is white & it has to dry black before it becomes potent. I started to do it but then life got in the way.

You, Monk ARE THE MAN!

haha!

i probably shouldn't share my method here.. it works though.