Thread: In the garden 2021

Yeah, just put it out. Wait for rain. Sharpen the mower blade!

This just popped up on our Local FB group

I couldn't help but think of this thread and the fact that it is 3° outside this morning

Big Walla Walla next to a quarter

Hey Roy

When do pull the seed pods

This guy does a better job of explaining than I can plus you have pictures!



This is a common sight around these parts.



The growers pull the onions, let them dry and then replant them to raise seed. Here's a picture of them doing so. Notice that they don't leave any space, all of the energy will be used to push up the stalk and for seed heads.




I hope this helps.

Sandhill cranes in the yard
The babies are almost fully grown

There's a young guy up the block who I talk with when walking Travis and come to find out he took over the hydraulic shop that was in Dayton where I grew up. He makes the 70 mile round trip every day but he says he doesn't mind.

Anyway, he does a lot of container gardening and I noticed some big blue ones and I asked him where he got them. Seems that he gets them from his father in-law and they contain some kind of horse feed or something. I offered to buy one as I had a project that would require a pretty deep pot and with me a bit on the cheap side I figured they would be much less than store bought containers.

He said I could have one! The only ones he had that wasn't in use he'd turned upside down and use to stain the boards of his fence. I told him no worries and brought it home.

One of the local ranch and home stores was closing out their gardening things like big bags of steer manure, potting soil and such so I bought two big bags of potting soil and two big bags of steer manure. I dumped some of each in and mixed it well then repeated. Once full I planted my project.







I was really late with this as I'm sure it should have been planted in the spring. But I'm hoping that I'll be able to use part of it Christmas or New Years with a rib roast----that's a hint to what it is.

I should be able to break off a chunk and it should send out new growth.

I planted a Walla Walla Sweet for seed in the same planter. It should be coming up also. One of the oldest families to grow WW Sweets came up with a RED WW Sweet. I may pick on of those up and see if I can get it to produce seed. I'll let you know.

Even though I was late planting looks like with a little luck the horseradish just might make it.

Squash, cuke's and zuchinni starting to overwhelm us

Us to. I’m giving away more than half f ours to neighbors and friends, been eating all the blueberries though, I want them all!