What’s going on in your garden (2025)?

SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Until I caught my chooks eating them, I used to hang them on the veg plot fencing and let nature take its course, but it doesn't rain often here. The French often use the stems to plait them into (forgotten the name) long plait of garlic.

I use the stems to "tie" them onto the fencing,
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Somewhere I read that these don't braid well, for whatever reason, 'cause my original idea was to braid them and hang in the basement. I'll let them like this until tomorrow when I've got fresh legs to see what my options are.

I really want to hang them upside down so the fluids drain into the bulbs? Just a motion.
 
Barriehie said:
Somewhere I read that these don't braid well, for whatever reason, 'cause my original idea was to braid them and hang in the basement. I'll let them like this until tomorrow when I've got fresh legs to see what my options are.

I really want to hang them upside down so the fluids drain into the bulbs? Just a motion.
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It's something to do with the soft neck or head neck varieties. One does plait and the other doesn't. And I can't remember which is which.

I always hung them half way through the stem pulling that back through the fence hole below.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
It's something to do with the soft neck or head neck varieties. One does plait and the other doesn't. And I can't remember which is which.

I always hung them half way through the stem pulling that back through the fence hole below.
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For now they're just going to stay on the shelf. Your mention of pulling them through the fence hole is giving me an idea though. 👍🤔
 
Lullabelle said:
Unfortunately we have neglected the gardens lately however we are getting back on top. One part of the lawn had to be strummed before I could mow it. All done, weeding and planting done. Will take a long time but bit by bit we will get there.
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I recall when I had a single tomato plant growing in the middle of the back yard just right out of the grass.

It's growing...
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Lullabelle said:
Looking good :okay:
Sadly we don't have the weather to grow this kind of thing outside, they have to be in a greenhouse.
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Thank you. Lots of people have hoop houses and they get an earlier start and a longer season. I'm okay without all that finding that in this hot and humid South there's enough rot, bugs, disease, animals etc. to contend with.
 
What's going on in my garden, I wonder, as the rainy season begins, and all of a sudden, the grass is overgrown, the chile plants are going ballistic (good!), green mangoes are falling all over the lawn, the bromeliads need weeding and my gardener is AWOL. :hyper: :hyper:
 
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