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.
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.
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 !
Azaleas — blooming brightly now all over Central Florida! Simply gorgeous!