What's Growing In Your Garden? Horticultural Science

[Turtle]

The garlic harvest is in, and I'm verrrry happy! As I mentioned before, and in case you don't know, in order for garlic to form a multi-clove head it must be planted in the Fall.

I noticed the garlic plants fallen over from the base of the stem & the stem browning so I thought an animal was in there bustin' it up, but the beans weren't damaged. Unsure when to harvest garlic, I searched & found that it's time when it starts to fall over and the stems brown.
>> Harvesting Garlic

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[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Gahhhhhhliiiiiik!
I'm going to have to plant me some! How do you get it started? Do you break one up into several cloves and plant them?

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD

MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Gahhhhhhliiiiiik!
I'm going to have to plant me some! How do you get it started? Do you break one up into several cloves and plant them?

Yup. That's the ticket all right. I just used a bulb I bought at the produce market. If you plant them in Spring, you end up with just a single bulb like an onion.

I'm regularly harvesting green beans, lettuce, and radishes now and the tomatoes will be ready in a week or so.

On the tomatoes, a fella visiting told me tomato blooms won't release their pollen until vibrated at a frequency of beating bee wings. Ever hear of this? I haven't seen any honey bees on my tomatoes (or any flowers for that matter), but something is pollinating them. Also after hearing about the vibration and sharing that with another visitor, they said they knew someone who hand-pollinated the tomatoes when no bees were around.

I just eat the stuff.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Turtle

On the tomatoes, a fella visiting told me tomato blooms won't release their pollen until vibrated at a frequency of beating bee wings. Ever hear of this? I haven't seen any honey bees on my tomatoes (or any flowers for that matter), but something is pollinating them. Also after hearing about the vibration and sharing that with another visitor, they said they knew someone who hand-pollinated the tomatoes when no bees were around.

I just eat the stuff.

That's bull butter, the wind is all you need to get tomatoes to set fruit, in a greenhouse I always touch each bloom with a soft brush but tomatoes don't need pollination like most plants. Just a physical touch of each bloom by wind, bees or your finger will do it.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

That's bull butter, the wind is all you need to get tomatoes to set fruit, in a greenhouse I always touch each bloom with a soft brush but tomatoes don't need pollination like most plants. Just a physical touch of each bloom by wind, bees or your finger will do it.

Thanks. The fella is definitely a bull butterer, but I opted not to batter him in battle before better bets betook my bastion. Bellicosity; can't live with it, can't bury it in the garden 'til Fall.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Thanks. The fella is definitely a bull butterer, but I opted not to batter him in battle before better bets betook my bastion. Bellicosity; can't live with it, can't bury it in the garden 'til Fall.

Of course you can, just make sure you bury him deep at night when no one is watching

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

Of course you can, just make sure you bury him deep at night when no one is watching

Sounds like the makings of a horror screenplay; the gentle gardener who 'recycles' his neighbors to brighten his posys.

Meantime, my Winter-wheat crop is about ready and I expect a bountiful harvest of .0234375 bushels. (more new veggie pics here: >> Science Forums - Turtle's Album: More Plants )

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Sounds like the makings of a horror screenplay; the gentle gardener who 'recycles' his neighbors to brighten his posys.

Meantime, my Winter-wheat crop is about ready and I expect a bountiful harvest of .0234375 bushels.

Cool wheat plants Turtle, do you plan to expand this crop next year? You could us the seeds from this to grow quite a few more next year and so on. I used to help grow oats when I was young, about 20 acres. Lots of oatmeal in there for sure! we used them as feed. As for the burial, life was hard where I am from, the only person who knew where all the bodies were buried was the farmer with a tractor and a backhoe attachment! More than one miscreant ended up in the john pit. Kind of a ironic way for a thief or other wise less than ideal citizen to end up.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

Cool wheat plants Turtle, do you plan to expand this crop next year? You could us the seeds from this to grow quite a few more next year and so on. I used to help grow oats when I was young, about 20 acres. Lots of oatmeal in there for sure! we used them as feed. ...

Indeed I do. My new lease assures me another season here & I plan to replace the backyard turf with all garden. Gonna go with a lot more garlic too. These over-Winter plantings will hold the soil during the rains, if this past season was any indication. By making the place more green, I think I am adding to the property value as well. I may tap the gutters this Winter with a multi-rain-barrel bypass with an overflow back into the well-designed drainage setup. We'll see how the ol' back stands up.

Whats the quickest way you know to separate the wheat from the chaff on a small scale? After I have the seeds separated out, do you think a blender will work well enough to give me a coarse flour?

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Indeed I do. My new lease assures me another season here & I plan to replace the backyard turf with all garden. Gonna go with a lot more garlic too. These over-Winter plantings will hold the soil during the rains, if this past season was any indication. By making the place more green, I think I am adding to the property value as well. I may tap the gutters this Winter with a multi-rain-barrel bypass with an overflow back into the well-designed drainage setup. We'll see how the ol' back stands up.

Whats the quickest way you know to separate the wheat from the chaff on a small scale? After I have the seeds separated out, do you think a blender will work well enough to give me a coarse flour?

You got me on that, I really don't know how to seperate the wheat from the chaff, but a blender should be able to provide some course flour.