Garlics have gone rampant in one of our old gardens, so we harvest the young ones and sell them at farmers market as an alternative to scallions. They can be quite popular.
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Young garlic leafs sale twice the price than garlic chives in Asian store. Stir fry with meat, or add alittle to stew with meat, adding nice garlic flavor
Do the hardneck seeds work just like the cloves as far as cooking?
Hardneck bulbils can be eaten just like the clove when young. But once they mature a bit, They get a “peel” just like the cloves. However they are way to small to individually peel. So usually you harvest the scallions before they get woody. (you pull them out of the plant. They feel very elastic/rubbery when pulling)
Or you let the bulbils fully mature. To grow out into cloves to than grow out into bulbs after 2 years.
Letting the bulbils grow will sacrifice some bulb growth
If you are talking about the bulbils that grow on top of the scapes, yes you can cook them like garlic but they are small so hardly worth the trouble. They can be planted and as @oscar said after two years you’ll have garlic cloves.
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When growing nut trees from seed, is there a point where the nut should be cut off of the seedling before transplanting? I would assume it would be a magnet for vermin as long as its attached…
I might be wrong. But i think the nut is the seed. It should fold open, and the 2 halves would probably become your 2 first leaves, called Cotyledons
So i don’t think you can cut it off. Without de-leafing the plant.
@oscar, I think you’re thinking about bean, melon, or zuchini, where the seed leaves are formed from the seed itself. But it doesn’t apply to every plant.
For example, in oak tree, the acorns remain at ground level while both a root and stem grow out of it in opposite direction. I would think most large heavy seeds must remain on the ground and does this because the first stem a seedling grows simply can’t bear the weight of the a large heavy seed.
@dgerdem, I would leave the seed in place since removing the seed deprives the seedling of the resources saved in the seed.
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Can I used processed (chopped, pureed, and vinegar added) horseradish from my garden as a deterrent for chipmunks? I can’t find any info online about it other than just growing it in the first place. I’d like to replace the cayenne that I sometimes use.
Looks like it could be a cherry. Throw any pits into the ground?
I posted a picture of a cherry seedling
Are there any super early plums besides Early Golden ,Early Magic, Spring Satin?
There’s a huge, mostly dead 30-40 year old (sour?) cherry tree not that far away that produces a handful of smallish bright red cherries every year. It’s got more deeply veined looking leaves like the one you posted.
Leaves also resemble chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) and Camellia genus.
Once leaves are mature, Prunus has soft leaves, while Camellia has hard waxy leaves.
Newly transplanted in Rhubarb crowns (Victoria, if it matters)…the leaves are coming in very low to the ground. Like touching it, or nearly so. Did I plant it at the right depth? Or too high/low? Or is this just something that will happen at first sometimes?
this year I did two of my mound beds with pine straw, wood chip, then about 4 inches of aged horse manure on top. added a little promix and soil conditioner as a top layer and will be planting this week.
with that much horse poop should I still fertilize? would 4-4-4 be ok, or the fish and kelp? calmag? I feel like I’ll be overdoing it but I could be very wrong.
the manure is just under 2 years aged. growing all the usual veggie suspects, tomato, squashes, cukes,okra, etc
What depth did you plant the top of the root? The top of most rhizomes shouldn’t genearlly be too far away from the surface of the soil.
Regardless the stalks will keep growing and eventually the leaf part will not touch the ground.
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I am tired of pulling these wild strawberry looking weeds , sets very small tasteless fruit.
Is it bad for my apples trees or I can leave these alone for ground cover.
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Strawberries generally have extremely shallow roots so I don’t think they are bad for your trees
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