majors 2023 garden

[majorcatfish]

6/18/2023 update...
THE ELEPHANT GARLIC HARVEST OF 2023.......
WITH THE RAINY WEATHER NEXT WEEK DECIDED TO HARVEST.......
FROM THE 2 PLANTS FROM LAST YEARS HARVEST, HAVE 23 PLANTS.... 90% OF THEM ARE MATURE HEADS. THE REST ARE YEARLINGS.

my old load locks works great to hang the heads...

the largest head had a circumference of 15"....

some of the largest heads with corms still attached.. will remove them and save for fall planting...

just look at them...

bucket with loose corms from harvesting....

will roast the large cloves and make garlic/herb butter and freeze and of course dehydrate some for garlic powder.
all the smaller mature cloves, 1st year blubs and the corms are my seed for this fall to plant....


the 3 stages of the life cycle of elephant garlic....

 

[baymule]

That is some bodacious elephant garlic!

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

That's amazing! Congrats on a great harvest!

 

[Finnie]

Those garlic are amazing!

 

[majorcatfish]

Well there you go.. pole grown yellow squash, no more hurting for treasure...
Will never grow it any other way....

 

[Carol Dee]

Well there you go.. pole grown yellow squash, no more hurting for treasure...
Will never grow it any other way....
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Just yesterday Bob said he wants to try to grow squashes up cattle panel or pole. How do you secure them to the pole?

 

[baymule]

A squash tree!

 

[majorcatfish]

Just yesterday Bob said he wants to try to grow squashes up cattle panel or pole. How do you secure them to the pole?

being my 1st time just used twine from straw bales that was hanging on the fence,, guess you could just about anything.. just a note once it does start growing need to adjust the twine lower down or it starts to cut into the vine,,

 

[majorcatfish]

7/8/2023 the main garden.....

my favorite slicing mator "phoenix" i'm very impressed with this years crop... think trimming them has really helped.

the "regal" plum mator.. time for some more fried green before they start to turn....

salt and pepper cucumber.. started off slow but has been a good producer again this year..

sweet banana pepper... just about time to snap a couple off..

the "highlander" pepper... couple more weeks and i will be making chili rellenos

and my most favorite melon "escorial" cantaloupe the other week marked 30 of them

this week... there are getting closer...

 

[majorcatfish]

7/8/2023... the pea patch beds...<just no peas this year>

the 2 "tropic" mators are trained quite well and producing some very nice mators. so far impressed only time will tell.

as for the brussels sprouts....the jury is out out on them this year.... started with 9 down to 5...