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Here's a picture of some Killarney Red.

I've bought seed garlic from Territorial, their descriptions are a little vague as far as I'm concerned but if you were to look at some of the other websites for more complete information you'd know exactly what you were getting. They divide all the garlics into either hard or soft necks which...

Hi from Corvallis, I've bought from Filaree farm and they sell nothing but organic, disease free, certified garlic so you're good to go with them. Lots of good information in their catalog too. They sell out early on the most popular varieties. I haven't grown Oregon Blue or the Asian...

Our soil is clay with standing water during the rainiest part of the winter so we have raised beds for drainage and so that we can plant before the soil would ordinarily be workable. Like Lesa said.:)

Pencil works better than a sharpie on plastic plant stakes believe it or not. I've harvested all my garlic other than the Killarney Red. I bundle it and hang it from the joists in my garage with a small fan running to circulate air. Smells pretty good in there.:) Garlic is kind of tricky to...

Garlic sometimes produces 'double' cloves which aren't that easy to spot, if you plant one of the double cloves you'll get two bulbs growing together. You can see it by looking at the root end of a clove. It's a little hard to explain but the root end will look a something like a figure 8 with a...

Don't confuse all hybrids with tomatoes grown for supermarkets. Hybrid tomatoes that were/are developed for home gardners are a whole lot different than those you get in the supermarket. I have a limited amount of space and live in an area that gets a low amount of heat compared to the rest of...

We make our own fertilizer - it isn't 'organic' but it is organic(ish). :) This is from Steve Solomon's "Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades" 4 parts seed meal - we use linnseed meal 1/2 part dolomite lime 1/2 part rock phosphate 1/2 part kelp meal All of the components break down fairly...

I used chopped straw to mulch my garlic and kale this winter. I didn't notice any difference in the slug population but it sure suppressed the weeds. Something to watch is breathing mold from straw that's been in the rain for 6 months. I wanted to pull the straw back from my garlic this spring...

3 plants! I hope you like Salsa Verde - you may have several bushels of tomatillos. They are fun to grow, they seem to be almost un-killable and get huge with hundreds of fruit.

I planted some potatoes for a late crop just about 10 days ago, about half of them are up. We always have to irrigate during the summer because we get almost no rain in summer here in Western Oregon (unlike the winter). I plan on throwing some straw around them when the plants get a little...

I live in Oregon and we grow kale during the winter as it tastes better after it's been frozen or put through some cold weather. I don't know if that's true of alligator kale or not - we only grow Red Russian and similar strains. We've been growing it from seed we gather for many years so who...

We don't bother to plant it anymore for all the reasons discussed above but when we have had good crops is was when we had plenty of manure in the bed. It seems to do best with a lot of nitrogen. FWIW.

This squash is supposedly resistant to vine borers - I can't verify that because we don't have the vine borer here.

Our everbearing rasberries bear fruit on the new canes in the fall and again the following summer after which they die off. We prune the dead tops out of the canes in the fall, then remove the dead canes altogether at the end of the cycle. My wife carried around one plant in a pot for years and...

Hi, How did you like the squash? The version we grew was green turning beige when mature. We bought the seed off a Renee's rack at our local garden store. Bill

We grew a squash variety called Trombetta di Albegna, Trombocino or 'Rampicante-Tromboncino' last year and it gets enormous and needs extensive trellising. It's actually a winter squash but when harvested green <18" can be used as in the same way as a zuchinni. All the seeds are in a little...

Hi, I'm a newcomer to the forum. I've only been growing garlic 3 years but I'm quite sure that you can grow hardneck garlic in the bay area. The main difference is keeping quality and ease of peeling. Hardnecks cloves have a loose wrapper and are much easier to peel than softneck, the tight...