Amkuska's 2025 Garden

[flowerbug]

green garlic is great and similar to green onions. if you have any small cloves left after planting you can put them down deeper and closer together for a late winter or early spring harvest.

i can't plant that shallow here because of frost heaving would probably have most of what i plant come out of the ground by spring. maybe a one inch cover with garden soil would keep them ok for you there.

 

[AMKuska]

green garlic is great and similar to green onions. if you have any small cloves left after planting you can put them down deeper and closer together for a late winter or early spring harvest.

i can't plant that shallow here because of frost heaving would probably have most of what i plant come out of the ground by spring. maybe a one inch cover with garden soil would keep them ok for you there.

I will definitely give it a go and see if planting it a little deeper helps. Thank you for the tip!

 

[Branching Out]

Good chance that a deeper planting will do the trick. I plant mine 3-4" deep, and about 5-6" apart.

 

[AMKuska]

Garlic has not been disturbed! I did find a spot in my frost cloth that looks like something was trying to get through it (scratch marks, oddly, not tooth marks) but the garlic is healthy and intact. I'm really happy about it.

I repotted my tomatoes and took some fun photos of the roots. I'll try to get those posted later today.

 

[Dahlia]

Garlic has not been disturbed! I did find a spot in my frost cloth that looks like something was trying to get through it (scratch marks, oddly, not tooth marks) but the garlic is healthy and intact. I'm really happy about it.

I repotted my tomatoes and took some fun photos of the roots. I'll try to get those posted later today.

We had a neighbor who planted a huge patch of garlic every year on the side of his house by the street. The garlic always grew so well. I think garlic loves our climate!

 

[AMKuska]

Look at the root on this little guy!

 

[AMKuska]

I decided to plant an identical set of tomatoes (6 each of 4 varieties) in the same little starting pots, but this time with regular potting soil. I'm going to compare their roots in 2 weeks to the roots from the tomatoes planted in root riot cubes, to see if they really are bigger or if I'm paying for marketing.

 

[AMKuska]

Root riot cubes definitely make a difference in how fast they sprout. The first one is up today, 4 days since planting. Just one.

I'll be potting up the "Tiny tomatoes" today, and possibly planting another round of peppers.

 

[ducks4you]

Seeds came in from October orders. Since I blew it starting Amish Paste tomatoes, I now have 2 packages of those, one package of giant jalepanoes, and another package of "Fooled You", a non heat hybrid jalepano, which I also didn't take care of.
DD's don't want me starting seeds in the basement. I have one of these:

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DD's moved the cedar blanket chest next to the west facing window. If I can get above downstairs, I can probably start cool weather crops over the winter in the back bedroom off of the kitchen.
All of my research suggests that they will be slow but steady growing and ready to put in the ground in April, 2025.
Hmmmmmm....





seems I should be starting my Own 2025 thread soon!