Posted on 10/09/2015 1:47:55 PM PDT by greeneyes
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a pumpkin that didn’t produce a lot of seeds. :-)
Nice, what do you do with all that garlic?
I planted probably over a hundred garlic plants.
I give a lot to my kids and some to family members.
I don’t use pesticides on anything I grow so it’s all *organic* and I tell them it’s organic homegrown garlic and they LOVE it.
Just an aside, I’ve heard that garlic does not compete well against weeds so what I do is lay down strips of landscape fabric between the rows and cover it with straw. A few weeds show up between the plants are are easy to take care of. It’s basically maintenance free.
The other thing is, for a couple of years, about mid-season, some critter charged through my garlic patch and flattened about half the plants. They do nothing after that point so I took some chicken wire and made a low fence around the area. I got a 100% harvest; didn’t lose one plant.
In 1995 at my Dad’s wake I stuck a garlic clove, a sprig of tomato plant and a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which he had a devotion to, in his jacket pocket. He loved garlic and planted it every year, not in your quantities. After he had been gone a year or so my mom was in a Wendy’s eating with her buddies. At the next table of old duffers one of them was saying “Whatever happened to Eddie,” they had not seen him. When another guy said Eddie who, they got the reply, “You know, the one who smelled of garlic all the time.” My mom overheard and leaned over and said - that was my husband. Miss you Dad and Mom!
I planted 36 feet of German Red garlic this afternoon after the fog lifted for another lovely day. Still have 3 more varieties to plant plus the fall cleanup.
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