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Timely Tidbits Long time, no see, but with my daughter around to help with the camera, we made a new video on Controlling Slugs Organically. You may be eating, so I'll leave it to you to decide whether or not to click into the world of slug slime.
Seeds for Spectacular
Salad
You'll need to scroll down to the end of Turtle Tree Seed's lettuce page to find a packet of the best lettuce mixture I've ever grown, the 'Lettuce Mix of Turtle Tree Favorites'. Talk about a beautiful, diversified mix! Lettuce mixtures make for many beautiful salads, and give you a chance to discover varieties you didn't know existed. I'm so enamored of the 'Speckled Amish Butterhead' in the Turtle Tree mix (foreground) that I hate to pick it, but harvest I must.
Meanwhile, the garlic is scaping 10 days ahead of schedule, and I'm harvesting every curl. After removing the tough blossom ends and cutting the scapes into bite-size pieces, I cook 'em in everything from omelets to etoufee. Last year I blanched and froze the extra scapes, and we ate them all before Christmas.
Like a lot of other
gardeners, I've found that
'Music', a hardneck porcelain type,
is a dependable producer of big,
tender scapes and large, juicy bulbs.
Our original planting stock came from
Territorial Seeds in Oregon,
but after a couple of years of replanting, the bulbs are looking more
like the ones offered by
Virginia-based
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.
Just goes to show that what I've heard is true: After a few years or
replanting
the best cloves you grow,
varieties will fine tune their growing rhythm
to better adapt to the climate.
For climate-specific garlic-growing tips, see
Plant Now for Great Garlic in the
Mother Earth News archives. See my YouTube videos on compost gardening, growing veggies in a row greenhouse, and even a haunting hornet's nest. |
“Life is full of mysteries, but one thing I know for sure. We are meant to enjoy each day that we spend on Earth, which happens quite naturally when you nurture a garden."
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The
same goes for another mixture I love, the
A
Good Season for Scapes
