majorcatfish
Garden Master
As for work it has been a very interesting year still director of maintenance for the same company, earlier this year spent at least 2-3 days per week either at the conover,nc or Columbia,sc stores working on them to get opened up.
Columbia is up and running the conover store is still way off till the owner decides to start major improvements that require pulling permits and since I am only the in-house jack of all trades and have no license, he has to finish with licensed installers who can pull permits. I do everything to code and beyond, but for some strange reason the city and county wants you to have a license…
As for the garden the germination season was a bummer, both of my heating mats went south on me they both lost their temperature control and boiled all the seeds that was started, had to reorder some seeds and start again, this time just used the little heater from the green house had a 100% germination rate. We basically planted the same as last year’s garden except for tomatoes, cucumbers and couple hot peppers. As for the tomatoes switched up this year and grew 30 san marzano oh my they sure do produce after the wife canned 10 cases of them after that was taking buckets upon buckets to work, I thinking of only doing 15 next year and trying the florida weave.
Since we still have cases of pickles from last year we just grew eating cucumbers salt & pepper, lemon and market more. Will grow the salt & pepper and the market ores again the lemon was just a ball of seeds.
Turned lasts years corn patch into raised potato beds grew bintje potatoes was not impressed with them, so year will change up to a different type have not decided yet to what .
As for my garlic finally found out why my garlic has been getting worse and worse the last 4 years , first thought it was poor soil or too much water that was slowly killing them off, after doing some serous research it looks like when I ordered my garlic some of the blubs must to have been exposed to white rot and once I planted them the spores took over the soil and spread.
Out of the 575 that I plants this year only harvested 150 good bulbs So I am out of growing garlic for a couple years, after hours of reading that the spores can stay in the soil for 10+ years, but the following year you can throw garlic chips like you give to horses and mix into the soil in spring the spores will think you have planted garlic/onions and they will bloom, but once there is no food they will die and you repeat this for a couple years and this kills off any remaining spores, of course you can grow anything you want except for garlic/onions.
For my blackberries they are all pulled up lost 7 of them before harvest, once again serous research they had insv<impatiens necrotic spot virus> and every plant had it, so looks like it’s going to farmers market berries for us.
Pulled up the main garden early September killed and burned the weeds couple weeks later tilled it and planted crimson red clover since the wife has asked for squash and a few others. well how about I have room now to expand, so tilled it and planted more clover.
now you can tell virgin soil and well pampered soil the clover was planted 2 weeks apart..
The raised beds did very well all season long, planted the fall garden bit late and now with this polar plunge was not going to loss so made some redneck hoop houses. last night it dropped to 21 got up this morning and took a peak everyone was a happy campers.
The Brussels sprouts grew strange this year tall to small all planted at the same time.
and one of the seeds in the packet must have been a purple sprout and the funny thing is it has no sprouts on it except for the very top, it's the size of a hardball.
of course theres the kiwis since we had the freeze it's time to pick and it looks like about 30 lbs this nothing like last year.
Well that’s what has gone on this year and all ready planning for next year’s garden
good to be back..major
Columbia is up and running the conover store is still way off till the owner decides to start major improvements that require pulling permits and since I am only the in-house jack of all trades and have no license, he has to finish with licensed installers who can pull permits. I do everything to code and beyond, but for some strange reason the city and county wants you to have a license…
As for the garden the germination season was a bummer, both of my heating mats went south on me they both lost their temperature control and boiled all the seeds that was started, had to reorder some seeds and start again, this time just used the little heater from the green house had a 100% germination rate. We basically planted the same as last year’s garden except for tomatoes, cucumbers and couple hot peppers. As for the tomatoes switched up this year and grew 30 san marzano oh my they sure do produce after the wife canned 10 cases of them after that was taking buckets upon buckets to work, I thinking of only doing 15 next year and trying the florida weave.
Since we still have cases of pickles from last year we just grew eating cucumbers salt & pepper, lemon and market more. Will grow the salt & pepper and the market ores again the lemon was just a ball of seeds.
Turned lasts years corn patch into raised potato beds grew bintje potatoes was not impressed with them, so year will change up to a different type have not decided yet to what .
As for my garlic finally found out why my garlic has been getting worse and worse the last 4 years , first thought it was poor soil or too much water that was slowly killing them off, after doing some serous research it looks like when I ordered my garlic some of the blubs must to have been exposed to white rot and once I planted them the spores took over the soil and spread.
Out of the 575 that I plants this year only harvested 150 good bulbs So I am out of growing garlic for a couple years, after hours of reading that the spores can stay in the soil for 10+ years, but the following year you can throw garlic chips like you give to horses and mix into the soil in spring the spores will think you have planted garlic/onions and they will bloom, but once there is no food they will die and you repeat this for a couple years and this kills off any remaining spores, of course you can grow anything you want except for garlic/onions.
For my blackberries they are all pulled up lost 7 of them before harvest, once again serous research they had insv<impatiens necrotic spot virus> and every plant had it, so looks like it’s going to farmers market berries for us.
Pulled up the main garden early September killed and burned the weeds couple weeks later tilled it and planted crimson red clover since the wife has asked for squash and a few others. well how about I have room now to expand, so tilled it and planted more clover.
now you can tell virgin soil and well pampered soil the clover was planted 2 weeks apart..
The raised beds did very well all season long, planted the fall garden bit late and now with this polar plunge was not going to loss so made some redneck hoop houses. last night it dropped to 21 got up this morning and took a peak everyone was a happy campers.
The Brussels sprouts grew strange this year tall to small all planted at the same time.
and one of the seeds in the packet must have been a purple sprout and the funny thing is it has no sprouts on it except for the very top, it's the size of a hardball.
of course theres the kiwis since we had the freeze it's time to pick and it looks like about 30 lbs this nothing like last year.
Well that’s what has gone on this year and all ready planning for next year’s garden
good to be back..major
Your green and growing pics are making me yearn for summer again. 
waste 
fear of some dire potato disease being brought into their garden. 
