when are you sowing your garden this year?

[Brian]

Harvesting a lot of garlic this week. Pulled in all the softnecks as they were leaning over. The hardnecks still seem like they're going well, but I'll probably pull them out this weekend.

I set them out in the shade on a vented wood table for a couple days to dry out and then took them inside and set them on some cardboard. They do seem to be drying out quickly - not sure if that's good or bad. This is my first year with garlic and I'm not sure where/how to store it since we don't really have a root cellar.

[HoneyBadger]

Just planted part of my 4x14 raised bed out here on CA. The growing season here is pretty much all year. I'll post some pictures if I can actually get anything to grow.

[Great-Kazoo]

Just planted part of my 4x14 raised bed out here on CA. The growing season here is pretty much all year. I'll post some pictures if I can actually get anything to grow.

Without water ?

[hollohas]

Update


Squash (Yellow sunburst, spaghetti, table queen acorn, Waltham butternut), pumpkins, peppers (jalapeño, California wonder bell, burpee big thai), okra (Chant), blue lake pole beans, Boston pickling cucumbers, strawberries, melon.



Tomatoes: Cherokee purple, big paste, Burpee black pearl, Rutgers and a small yellow cherry tomato I have been harvesting seeds from each year. Not even sure what to call it anymore expect for "awesome".



Fordhook zucchini, Italian ribbed zucchini, sugar snap peas, Roma tomatoes, strawberries, Danvers half long carrots, burpee tenderpod bush beans, English cucumber, oregano, lemon thyme, English thyme, cilantro, sweet basil, sweet heat pepper, hot lemon pepper, tangerine dream pepper, big Thai pepper, dill, Dorinny heirloom corn and blue lake pole beans (climbing up corn).

[HoneyBadger]

Without water ?

In the garden:
Pole beans, snow peas, sugar snap peas, Roma tomatoes, some other variety of good meaty red tomatoes, broccoli, Great Lakes lettuce, Kale, 2 types of spinach, carrots, radishes, onions, beets, Red and green bell peppers, and some variety of California sweet peppers.

In pots:
Summer squash, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, crookneck yellow squash, italian squash, butternut squash and cucumbers.

Since most things don't have specific growing seasons out here, I'm going to try to keep this going all calendar year long. I'll update as stuff grows (or doesn't).

[HoneyBadger]

At this stage of the game, how much time (daily or weekly) are each of you spending on your gardens? I would really like to spend no more than 10-15 minutes every couple of days for a total of no more than an hour each week. Is that realistic?

[Dave]

I think with ours only being a couple of kiddie pools of herbs, a 10x10 patch of strawberries and 2 rhubarb plants we average half an hour every other day. Most of this is manual watering though, plus weed removal.

Plus side is we harvested some berries and rhubarb and made cobbler yesterday. Also grabbed some palisade peaches from the Westminster Rotary Club stand at 104th and Federal, we got an 18# box. So we also made a peach rhubarb cobbler, plus we vac sealed a few bags of sliced and sweetened peaches as well.

[rbeau30]

Zukes are going crazy. Made some Faux Apple Pie today!

Green beans and tomatoes are just starting to produce. Rocky Mountain Corn is getting blown over, but I think I may have about 20 ears at least for the 14 corn plants I planted in my 2 x 6 raised bed.

Scarlet runner beans are flowering plenty, but no beans are getting produced. :-(

Raspberries should be starting out soon.

Grapes are growing like crazy, just no grapes forming yet.

Fruit Trees... well, lets just say they are having a hard time this year. I think my plum tree is dying and the pear tree as well. I saved one cherry and the other cherry tree does not look so good. Lost 3 other trees on the South side of the house. The apple trees look a little sickly, I lost a lot of branches.

[newracer]

We have some overcrowding going on. Need to plan better next year. The pumpkin is going everywhere.

[Lucky]

...
I have to make my way to Costco... I am running low on jars. All the stuff I give as gifts to non-canning folks seem to never come back. Wonder what they do with them?

It's truly a mystery. Maybe one out of 20 jars make their way back to me. Pickled beet and asparagus recipes on their way to Recipe of the Day thread. Enjoy!