What have you done today in the Garden?

Hi Gail hope all is well, the fence is only a climbing frame for plants it will take a few years to get it established, i will grow runner beans up it for a few years while he climbers get established,

Picked another Acer up today i will plant it up over the bank holiday.

 

Stunning colour Odif but omg be careful cutting tree's over your head especially with a chainsaw

 

Those deep colours in the Acers once established look beautiful..if I hadn't got my weeping willow in the front i'd have one there but I always adore those pots, hubby as fetched out my 5 spare ones and added plants but who do you think is watering them

 

Odif, I love what you did with the table. Yes, please be careful using a chainsaw, especially above your head!
Carolyn and Dirtmechanic, thanks for the advice. I smash my home-grown garlic and mix it, strain it, fill the sprayer. It's strong and has worked before 2018.
Jewell, Bindweed is the bane of my existence. The roots can be traced 12 inches down and also wander off in many directions.

 

The biggest one is over 20 years old Gail, i could have done with a bigger one for the other large pot but it will grow in time, in autumn you get some lovely foliage from the big one i presume the smaller ones will be the same i have another pot with a Chinese symbol on it i will have to buy another, yes i guess Stu will be leaving the watering to you .

 

Don’t worry I am careful. This kind of work is fun. Today I have got a friend to help me strimming a large patch. I will post before and after pics. Yesterday I strimmed and carted off rubbish.

 

Had storms come through today so I fertilized my veggies in their new container homes. Checked on my garlic plants but while they are vigorous in their appearance they haven't expanded their bulbs very much, despite being planted 6 months ago..

Time to feed the garlic...

 

Phosporous?

 

I would assume so, but the bulbs themselves have long, spaghetti like roots as well. It probably is going to be something without nitrogen, maybe Alaska Morbloom (0-10-10). The potassium may be needed as well.

I learned "N-P-K" numbers correspond to the mnemonic "shoots, roots and fruits", respectively

 

How about up, down, and all around? I hear garlic has to get below 10C for a while to make bulbs. I just leave ours alone and they just come up. We grow bulbs easily here. Its been more than a decade, and I forgot what type we planted. I can say that they are slow, and all that energy in the stalk going back down into the bulb makes a difference at the end of the year. You might try some thrive alive green. Its a kelpy mixup with a 0-0-1. The thrive alive red is a 1-1-1. Did you say they were in the ground?

 

In a 3 gallon pot, Only 5 per container. I planted this last fall but we had maybe a week total of freezing temps over the winter. Most nights were near 10°C or below but the days got higher usually.

 

Catdaddy, we plant garlic in early fall, as you do; little green shoots come up almost immediately and then just sit there until February-ish; and then take off like green rockets. We don't get much in the way of freeze, perhaps seven freezing nights spread over three months, and our garlic doesn't seem to mind. I toss some compost in the bed before the fall planting, and that's all the supplement the garlic gets.
This is not this year's crop, which is still in the ground, but a previous crop. This year promises to be even better.

One on left is ours, one on right is grocery store garlic.

We plant (and eat) a lot of garlic. Most of our friends won't buy grocery store garlic anymore!
A word of warning--if you haven't planted and harvested garlic before--home grown and air dried is much more potent than the grocery variety.

 

Are the pots fairly deep? 18 inches or more?

 

Excellent garlic @marlingardener. I plant my garlic for best results in Oct/Nov in lots of well rotted compost. Sometimes I add compost in the spring. They will be mulched. Unfortunately I didn’t get round to planting this year, too lazy.