What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

flowerbug

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I brought my (DD's, actually) amaryllis out of dormancy. It is growing on the kitchen counter, on top of the radiator...where it's "warming up" to bloom next month.

that's a bit early IMO, i hope it will do ok. :) i won't break mine out until the end of January or into mid-February when the light finally starts to get bright enough in this room again.
 

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A few weeks ago I took out a few of the BOSS growing in my chicken grazing frame experiment and planted them in a pot to see how they'd do indoors in the Winter. So far, pretty good!

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Started grocery store garlic on top of the fridge in a grocery store clear vegetable sample container,This time with soil. I put the lid on to greenhouse them. About 1/2 have sprouted. It's fun to see the roots first. As soon as each gets too big I will transplant each to a pot and put them under a gro light. I have ordered Italian late garlic. I have 4 plants that survived from last year, when I started garlic on my counter in egg cartons. I ALWAYS seem to have a learning curve. :rolleyes:
Did you know that ~90% of our garlic is grown/shipped from China?
We should be exchanging it here.
I hope to harvest ALL my garlic in August and replant for 2022 in November, which is the recommended time here, according to the University of IL.
 

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Did you know that ~90% of our garlic is grown/shipped from China?
We should be exchanging it here.
That wasn't always the case, just one more thing outsourced that shouldn't be. I've been garlic self-sufficient for almost 20 years, in spite of losing my entire collection 3 times, due to various issues. Fortunately in a normal year, we dehydrate enough to last us & our adult children for two years. The 2020-2021 planting is the first time we've used a raised bed, hopefully that will overcome the drainage issue which has stunted (or killed) our garlic several times in years past.
 
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