Got any of the flowers/bulbs you need to split this fall?
What's Growing in the Garden
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my wife just confirmed they're asiatic lilies
we'll probably have to split up that pot this fall, it's pretty packed. why, you want some?
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Picked these tonight.
And as I finished, looked up and was rewarded with a nice sunset.
And as I finished, looked up and was rewarded with a nice sunset.
Yes
I'll save that thought into my sieve-like memory banks and let you know if / when we pull these out and separate them. I don't know how to best save and ship the bulbs. Tim, can you help with that part?
My peas are loaded with blossoms but just a very few pods have formed. I planted them the first of May, it's been a little cooler than normal so I think they will be a little later than usual.
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Dig them in early fall after all the foliage has died back. Dig the clump, cut off dead foliage and separate. To store, use damp sphagnum moss dampened in plastic bags with a few holes cut in them to let them breathe. Asiatic lilies need to be kept slightly damp, but not wet. They are best if they are replanted ASAP as getting the right conditions for long term storage is difficult.
You'll find all sizes of bulbs under the lilies, and it worth keeping/planting all of them. Small ones shallower than large ones, and small ones may take a year or two to bloom.
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Did a final thinning of the red raspberries, probably still a little thick. Also stripped leaves off the bottom to get some better airflow and hopefully less disease.
Man those are healthy looking plants. Puts mine to shame.
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Helps that they were established in the open where there was just turf before. Also new this year, I put wood chips around all of the raspberries. Holds moisture and more importantly keeps weeds down.
Not buying chips, nephew in law is trying to start landscaping business in addition to his mowing, he bought a chipper, so I get chips for free.
They also look good as I don't bother managing them for an early summer crop by leaving last years canes. Cut everything to the ground each spring, so these are all fall bearing only. It's too tough managing an early crop with Japanese beetles. I can kill them, but pre harvest intervals (PHI) of the chemicals that work, means you either lose the berries to the beetles, or loose them to over-ripening waiting for the PHI. This way I can nuke the beetles and maintain good foliage. The beetles are then long gone by the time they start producing in the fall.
Commercially, everybody tries for the early summer fruit as they get a premium for them. Most of mine goes right into the freezer, so doesn't matter on timing as long as I have a large enough harvest each year to carry me to the next season.
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How do you raise the dried beans?...
Plant a variety that is intended for dried beans then let them fully mature, usually the plants will die. Then pull the plants and put them in a warm dry place until the pods become brittle. At this point the beans can be removed from the pods. I plant a heirloom variety from my wife's family, they are not big producers but are quite reliable and have a nice flavor and texture.
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If I had known they were getting this big I would have been digging at least a week ago.
Fresh peas and new potatoes
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And a T-bone for supper!Fresh peas and new potatoes
I'm sure glad we're not having a gardening contest like the Turning Challenge. I'd come in last for sure lol. I dug my Yukon Gold potatoes Thursday before the rain came in. This was the yield I got from a 16' row:
Pretty pathetic. Hopefully the Kennebec's will be better. I deep tilled the row and worked in my wood chip compose and fertilizer. Maybe Yukons done do well in my area.
The planting of my last tomato plants was delayed for various reasons. This is my soil. The topsoil is only 3-4" deep; then clay.
Hard to tell from the picture, but see the brown top band with the rust clay below? And the pile to the right: top soil at the 2 O'clock position and clay at the 3 O'clock position. I amend the soil now on everything I plant. I try to only use the top soil.
Choose a variety you like, I recommend an heirloom variety that you can replant with predictable results. I have only done Jackson Wonder butterbeans, a bush bean, and Christmas Limas, which are prolific pole beans that will produce two crops of dry beans if planted reasonably early and the first crop is picked off as they dry. Reasonably early for me here in the far north of Alabama means before May 15.
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If you have access to a handy lawn care professional, grass clippings do a wonders on soil without introducing bum seeds into your weed bed. ( I mean, you garden bed). I was just thinking of my raised beds after this last 2 weeks of off and on rains. Just spent most of this morning pulling grass and pigweed out of my sugar beet planting. When I got through looking at the pathetic stand of beet, I dug out a bucket of potato starts and stuck them in instead.