Garlic harvest! and other garden pics

[MissS]

They look good. I won't get my garlic in until late October/November. I had fun growing it this year thanks to @rxkeith. I learned a lot too.

[JayneR13]

I’m getting the last of mine in tomorrow. Seed Savers finally sent it! Krasnodar red & K white, two bulbs of each. Because I’m a seedaholic lol

[JayneR13]

I pulled the summer squashes at the pantry garden today. The weather forecast is for days in the 60s and nights in the 40s, which neither they nor the tomatoes will like. While the tomatoes have quite a few fruits left that can ripen, the summer squash was done. So out it came.

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I didn't take a picture, but more garlic is popping up there every time I see it! I've also got a few onions up. That's good to see! I'm looking forward to next year's harvest and the look on my fellow volunteer's faces when I drop 135 heads of garlic on that table! That's 150-15 for next year's seed. That space was so badly misused before, I'm glad to see it getting better.

Happy gardening!

[GoDawgs]

Well done! It's always a case of win some-lose some but it's always a good year when the wins outnumber the losses. I think your pantry guy is going to be amazed when he totes up all the stuff that came out of that garden this year.

I was going to plant my garlic mid month but I might have to wait a little for the ground to disperse the 13" of rain we got.

Miss Yin looks very content! She's had a hard life and is ready to retire to easier times right along with you.

[JayneR13]

Yes, I'm guessing that Helene shifted a few priorities and put the regular planting schedule off by just a bit! Eek! But I'm glad you and Pickles are OK, along with the majority of the garden. Life goes on, right?

[JayneR13]

I made my last garden-related trip of the year to my hardware store, just to see if I could find anything useful on sale. I did: a nice-looking variety of tulip that I think will be happy in the newly cleared section under the lilac tree.

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My new hori showed up yesterday, just in time to help!

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So I dug & planted & watered in. You all know what freshly dug & watered soil looks like. Hopefully I’ll have lovely flowers in spring!


I also walked over to the food pantry garden, to water and check on things. Nights are dipping into the 30s and there have been frost warnings a bit further north, so the time is coming. The tomatoes aren’t much longer for this earth. The garlic, however, is coming up nicely! I have sprouts in all five rows and a few onions as well. When I took this garden over in spring, this area was one huge flowering kale, a ton of dandelion, and a few herbs & wild lettuce unloved by the pantry clients. Now the area is productive again.

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It’s a cold, dark, blustery day! Enjoy gardening while it lasts. Winter is coming.

[MissS]

I think that my most used tool is my hori. They make my life so much easier.

I love the tulips in spring. I hope that they remain unmolested by the critters so that they can brighten your spring days. It was a sad day here. The perennial beds were cut down today. The honeybees and the lone hummingbird are flying around looking for the plants. Frost is expected in two nights.

[JayneR13]

It’s getting to that point here too. All that’s left in my beds are my brassicas. My calamint is still in bloom but that too will soon pass,

[bboomer]

I think that my most used tool is my hori. They make my life so much easier.

I love the tulips in spring. I hope that they remain unmolested by the critters so that they can brighten your spring days. It was a sad day here. The perennial beds were cut down today. The honeybees and the lone hummingbird are flying around looking for the plants. Frost is expected in two nights.

We hit 81 degrees today! I love it! At the same time, its disturbing. After all, it is almost mid October in Wisconsin.

[MissS]

I think that my most used tool is my hori. They make my life so much easier.

I love the tulips in spring. I hope that they remain unmolested by the critters so that they can brighten your spring days. It was a sad day here. The perennial beds were cut down today. The honeybees and the lone hummingbird are flying around looking for the plants. Frost is expected in two nights.

We hit 81 degrees today! I love it! At the same time, its disturbing. After all, it is almost mid October in Wisconsin.

I'll glady take it. We had such a lousy spring. I harvested plenty of nice ripe tomatoes today. My crop is loving this late growing season.

[JayneR13]

Since our hard freeze is scheduled for Monday-Tuesday, it was time to clean out all of the tomatoes & peppers at the food pantry garden. Those peppers were really wasted space; we got very little from them. If we bother at all next year, it'll be hots like jalapenos or similar. The pantry has a number of Latino clients and they like those hot peppers. Or PA can buy them and let me plant something useful. Anyway, all of the plants except the winter squashes are gone. The hose is up and the new compost is spread out. PA will bring me more of that, which I'll rake into other areas of course. The winter squashes will likely be pulled next week, ready or not. I would've pulled them today but PA wants to give them every last minute we can. They're mostly butternuts and a couple of acorns. The strawberries in the foreground will be dug up and/or tilled into the soil. They were planted by the last gardener and never did yield well. The fencing and the posts were also his doing. Tabula rasa, baby!

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Garlic has come up very well. Alliums like cold weather so they'll be fine. There's a tree right above them that's turning gold and dropping its leaves. One person's fallen leaves are another's free mulch.

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Because my name's Jayne, and I'm a seedaholic. While there's some stuff in here that's not useful right now, there's a few short DTM cucumbers and some greens to try in the hydroponics units. I might send the less than useful stuff in for the MMMM swap and to the local seed library. Okra doesn't grow well here. Tried and died LOL.

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This rose belongs to a bush I pass on my way to the convenience store. Posting because it's lovely. Please enjoy!

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Soon my fingernails will be all too clean! Oh well. This too shall pass.