Posted on 03/19/2022 7:58:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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What are the best varieties?
This is also a time for letting others on the thread know that I have hummingbird vine and rose of sharon seeds up the wazoo and will send them to anyone who freep mails me for an address and sends a self-addressed stamped envelope as long as supplies last. This is a good time of year for planting both.
Anything.
I saw my first robins today!!!!!
Yesterday was so gorgeous I braved the much in the garden and got some buckets set up for bucket carrots and put some seeds in two of them.
I also sprinkled a bunch of scallion seeds in a small section of my raised bed and covered them very lightly with straw.
Anyone here use Real Growers Recharge?
I starting using it about 2 weeks ago and see good growth each time I use it.
Basically instant Compost Tea.
Best Early-Blooming Spring Flowers
Annuals:
Viola
Lobelia
Petunia
Snapdragon
Ranunculus
Sweet Allysum
Stock
Perennials:
Hellebore
Primrose
Adonis
Lily of the Valley
Virginia Bluebells
Trillium
Shrubs & Bulbs (Fall Planted) listed here, too!
https://bouqs.com/blog/early-spring-flowers/
Hard neck garlic is best planted in the fall. Something about the freezing of them is what causes the cloves to form instead of having one giant bulb.
I started a bunch of Stuttgarter onions in Feb and they are looking good now.
I put in scallion seeds yesterday outside and covered them with straw. Time will tell.
For garlic, I like Great Northern White and Romanian Red. Both produced huge cloves.
Music is another variety but they didn’t do as well in my garden. I planted some anyways this year in the raised garlic bed. It should be interesting to see how they all compare this year.
Stuttgarter onions produce a decent size bulb and they are good long storage onions and heirloom. You can save the seeds if they don’t cross pollinate.
For onions I planted Red Wing hybrid as a good long storage onion, and Rossa di Milano. Sadly, Johnny’s Selected seeds is sold out of them already.
I’m in NH. Same growing zone.
Wish I could eat garlic. I used to eat it raw, and include it in many things, but I developed an allergy to it as I can’t even smell it anymore without feeling sick almost. Even a little makes me sweat, makes me dizzy as all get out, shaky and wow, it takes a view days to recover, and it’s all I can taste for 2 days. I used to really crave garlic bread 🍞 too. Also,we’d make a garlic,oil dip for regular bread that wa delicious too.
Onions also affect me now, but not as bad as the garlic does. I especially,love the Vidalia onions. Wish they would grow up here though. (I think they can’t right?) We make a a great sauce with Vidalia that is absolutely,great on pork, chicken, ribs especially, hotdogs, even hamburgers. It’s wicked good!
Never heard of it- sounds interesting. We have a modest sized compost, but I think a lot must leech Into the soil under the compost we don’t really have enough for whole garden though.
Onions and garlic are the same plant family.
It’s not surprising that if you are allergic to one, you’re allergic to the other.
Oh my word, we are inundated with Robin’s, i oooked,out and itmwas like a,scene from alfred hitcock’s ‘the birds’ movie. they showed up about 3 days ago (en mass I mean, maybe there were some loners before then, but if so we didn’t notice)
Excellent! Great delicacy and balance. A very happy Spring to all.
A different kind of teapot. From my History of Computing playlist of my IBM Research videos. Alan Norton’s groundbreaking graphics work.
Breaking the Utah Teapot - 1989
https://youtu.be/3NQuHpUyZbI
11 Essential Flowers to Plant This Spring for Gorgeous Blooms
Bleeding Heart
Hellebore
Bloodroot
Virginia Bluebell
Stonecrop (Sedum)
Daylily
Pansies
Hydrangea
Sweet Pea
Stock
Dahlia
https://www.mydomaine.com/best-flowers-to-plant-in-spring-5116540
For anyone interested:
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS
Glomus aggregatum 6.4 CFU/g
Glomus mosseae 6.4 CFU/g
Glomus intraradices 6.4 CFU/g
Glomus etunicatum 6.4 CFU/g
Bacillus subtilis 100,000,000 CFU/g
Bacillus megaterium 100,000,000 CFU/g
Kelp (derived from Ascophyllum nodosum) 12%
Molasses (microbe food) 6%
Humic Acid (derivied from Leonardite) 5%
Sounds delicious!
https://www.realgrowers.com/recharge/
We got a quarter inch of rain this week and this greened things up considerably.
Our three raised beds are turned over with fresh fertilizer.
We have new bird netting around all three, supporter by a one inch pic frame to keep the cat out.
A few of our peppers are stared indoors.
Looking good !
Yeah I also,don’t do well with nightshades.. so not much left Ina garden I can eat lol. I do eat potatoes and tomatoes though as I can’t stand watching the tomatoes ripen and not have toasted tomatoes sandwiches 🙃
If you read the reviews on Amazon most people swear by it.
Really good reviews!
Thanks I will check that out for sure. We had a wet cold,spring and summer last year and things didn’t do so,great in the garden. It might have benefitted from better nutrients maybe.
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