How's your garden doing?
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That's what my neighbor does: raised beds for the potatoes.
Yep. I want to put some Asian persimmons out there too and diversify. It takes longer for them to produce fruit though.
Do you mean the squirrels get the all the plums or that it has never produced any plums?
Yeah, that sucks. I don't know what would be the answer to that. We have squirrels but we also had chickens run around the yard. I don't know if the chickens would chase them off or just eat what the squirrels dropped from the peach trees. Unfortunately we don't have the dogs running in the orchard (to keep the chickens safe) but they could keep the squirrels at bay. On the other hand we have a lot of excess chicken food on the ground and maybe they're too full to eat many of our peaches.
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Go, cat!
Do you start with seed or are you planting starter bulbs? I only do seeds for bunching onions. Regular onions take too long with seed and I haven't been too successful with them.
It didn't rain too much, so I think I can get my onions in tomarrow.
That area has decent drainage, and good sandy loam.
I have some onions I left in the ground from last year. I wonder how they will taste. I'm almost afraid to pull them and try them.
FEAR THE OLD ONION! FEAR IT!
Holy shit, dude. You're scaring me!I ate some pickled jalapeño last night that wasn't as hot
I think I'll pull one and saute it tonight. If I no longer post here after sampling you'll know it's because I spontaneously combusted.
catocom
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If I no longer post here after sampling you'll know it's because I spontaneously combusted.
I just finish getting the onions covered.
I make a cocktail out of a few slices of jalapeno, rum or tequila and agave nectar. It's called a Pepperita. Very tasty and very spicy.
Cat was talking about how hot his onions got after leaving them too long in the ground. I left mine in for a year without pulling them. I'm almost afraid to eat them now, but I will try it.
I was hoping that next year we'd be able to harvest. Bummer!
BTW, I did the trench method. I'm not sure when to start filling in with compost though. I read somewhere that asparagus spreads out and roots tend to pop up toward the top of the soil and this is why I chose this method. (Some methods of planting did not call for the trench.)
As they grow, fill in behind them. Keep a couple of inches above the soil line until you bed is level.
With two year roots, you can cut more than with one year but, ideally, let them establish themslves a lttle longer. I planted one year & had to watch my best crop ever go to waste
With two year roots, you can cut more than with one year but, ideally, let them establish themslves a lttle longer. I planted one year & had to watch my best crop ever go to waste
I will definitely take your advice and not cut this year and most likely next year also.As they grow, fill in behind them. Keep a couple of inches above the soil line until you bed is level.
With two year roots, you can cut more than with one year but, ideally, let them establish themslves a lttle longer. I planted one year & had to watch my best crop ever go to waste
When do I fill them in, though? Now? As shoots begin to come up? Or at the end of the season when the ferns begin to die back (winter)? That's the part I don't know about.