I agree. For a guy who claims he is too busy to garden, your organization and production puts most of us to shame. Healthly looking plants.jal_ut wrote:Looking good. Nice neat layout.
First off great shots and what a beautiful garden. You are doing an amazing job my friend, I am thouroughly impressed.DoubleDogFarm wrote: I pulled four plants yesterday. 3 Music and 1 Chesnok. Looking at the picture, I cant tell them apart. The seed garlic that I received from gixxerific (Dono) had much more red to them.
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Maybe after they cure the red will shine through.
Eric
With the early harvest that may have something to do with the color not being there. I noticed this myself. To tell the truth I lost my map and the tags on my rows of these two last year and I bunched them together, since like you said they are hard to tell apart.
The color comes out a lot after peeling it is amazing how much color the paper can hide.Thanks everyone. It's smoke and mirror and camera angle.gardenvt wrote:First, your garden is beautiful. It must please you to look out over that land after a long day and see the results of all of your hard work.
When did you harvest your garlic? And when did you cut off the tops?
I harvested mine July 7 (everything is early this year with all of the heat) and have had them hanging in a very airy place. Was thinking it is time to cut the tops off and let them continue to cure.
I grew 4 varieties: Music, German Extra Hardy, German Porcelain and Two Dog Farm Porcelain that a local farmer has been growing for 10 years here in Vt.
I can't decide which I like better. Each one sems like the best garlic ever! This is my first year growing garlic. It was a great harvest.
Have you ever tried putting them out even ealier with maybe a low tunnel over them to get them going sooner than maybe some shade during the hot months? I know you know what you are doing but there has to be a way.jal_ut wrote:Looking good. I only wish I had a red tomato. That is the one thing that never seems to come here. First its too hot and dry so the fruit won't set on then its too cool to ripen.
I bow down at your gardening expertise.
Soil,Harvest all the corn when the plant starts to dry out. Then lay them out to dry more, once really dry you can husk and such. We grew 800 painted mountain corn plants this year. Looking at a very good harvest . And I found some amazing selections out of the corn. One plant had three ears per l
Plant And in each ear there was five cobs. Amazingly beautiful so I'm going to try and open pollinate it over time. A few others has ears 18 inches long! Great stuff and all in 60 days.
I can say that is one plus for our cold winters. It gets cold enough to freeze the ground a foot or more deep and is very effective at killing many overwintering bugs. Yes, we have bugs, but not to the extent I hear a lot of people complaining about.Our winters are pretty mild, but I hope this year it's a little more severe. The tent caterpillar cycle was a little extreme this year.
So it been over two months and I have only pulled a few carrots. 
