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Thanks for the pictures! Well, I have yet to get a vine-ripened red tomato. They're all still green. I did have a couple of yellow cherry tomatoes...by a couple I mean TWO. Those are still green, as well and it is really cold here now. Unseasonably cold. I'm going to plant some garlic cloves tomorrow. I bought some over the weekend, and they started to sprout. Waste not want not.
Can you explain how to do that? Plant outside? How deep do you bury it, etc. TIA
Can you explain how to do that? Plant outside? How deep do you bury it, etc. TIA
It is easy.
You break the cloves off the bulb, but keep the "skin" on. I plant them maybe three inches deep. I've never measured, though. Plant them with the pointy side UP. I am in zone 7, and I've done this the most successfully with garlic from the supermarket. The expensive "hardneck" ones I bought online gave me really small bulbs. That could be because the boughten soil in my raised beds wasn't so great.
I've planted garlic only in Autumn so far. It is still technically summer, but the weather has been pretty cool, and I didn't want the garlic I'd bought to spoil. I am including a link to a blog where the writer describes her own planting of garlic. I've planted in raised beds like she has, as well as in my regular, somewhat clay-ey garden soil:
You break the cloves off the bulb, but keep the "skin" on. I plant them maybe three inches deep. I've never measured, though. Plant them with the pointy side UP. I am in zone 7, and I've done this the most successfully with garlic from the supermarket. The expensive "hardneck" ones I bought online gave me really small bulbs. That could be because the boughten soil in my raised beds wasn't so great.
I've planted garlic only in Autumn so far. It is still technically summer, but the weather has been pretty cool, and I didn't want the garlic I'd bought to spoil. I am including a link to a blog where the writer describes her own planting of garlic. I've planted in raised beds like she has, as well as in my regular, somewhat clay-ey garden soil:
Thank you! (wouldn't let me rep you again). You don't know how to grow ginger by chance do you?
I'm pretty sure you just put a piece with a "bud" or eye in some dirt. But where I am it is too cold to grow it outdoors. I bet there are instructions online.
I am bringing part of the garden indoors. Autumn is approaching and low temperatures are predicted in the 30s this weekend.
Although it is late in the season to purchase seeds, I managed to buy some seeds from a local greenhouse for my winter indoor herb 'garden' - catnip for my 2 cats, cilantro and parsley. The seeds were 50% off - maybe I should try growing herbs that I haven't in the past. Dill, rosemary, sage ....
I have been growing oregano and basil in pots this summer. I'll see how they adapt to being move indoors but just in case they are not happy, I have some leftover seeds.
I am bringing part of the garden indoors. Autumn is approaching and low temperatures are predicted in the 30s this weekend.
Although it is late in the season to purchase seeds, I managed to buy some seeds from a local greenhouse for my winter indoor herb 'garden' - catnip for my 2 cats, cilantro and parsley. The seeds were 50% off - maybe I should try growing herbs that I haven't in the past. Dill, rosemary, sage ....
I have been growing oregano and basil in pots this summer. I'll see how they adapt to being move indoors but just in case they are not happy, I have some leftover seeds.
LED lights balanced for plants are not expensive and they use little current. Just don't spread it around that you are using grow lights.
LED lights balanced for plants are not expensive and they use little current. Just don't spread it around that you are using grow lights.
During our long winters, I use fluorescent grow lights (installed in shop-light fixtures) with great success - orchids, herbs and house-plants. The next time that I am in town, I'll have to check on the price and availability of LEDs.
During our long winters, I use fluorescent grow lights (installed in shop-light fixtures) with great success - orchids, herbs and house-plants. The next time that I am in town, I'll have to check on the price and availability of LEDs.
I found them on the internet. Seems like there were some states that would not allow them to be shipped in. I wonder why?
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The seeds were 50% off - maybe I should try growing herbs that I haven't in the past.
