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I think most (all?) fruit trees are grafted. I don't know about bushes or vines.

I forgot to add that it's the same deal with onions. The layers of the onion bulb are specialized leaves, so they like nitrogen too. Same here! 4 out of about 20. :barnieI'm going to replant some in a few days.

I gave my garlic a sprinkling of blood meal because: It's nitrogen, and I had a bag of it that I'd forgotten about. My garlic is looking pretty darn good! Above ground anyway. We'll see what I dig up in a few weeks.

My spinach is bolting. I'm probably going to pull it soon (here, chickens!) and plant some more green beans where it was. We are getting some much needed rain! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mother Nature! :love:clap

Garlic likes nitrogen. The bulb is actually specialized leaves, so think of fertilizing it as if it were greens.

Nice looking garlic! I'll be picking scapes very soon. I saw one that was probably ready yesterday.

EWO topsets are pricey? OMG. :thI'm sitting on a fortune!!!

So are mine! I gave mine a bed of their own. I "keep them in check" by digging out a clump when I need onions. Our winters are enough to keep them from being a problem. I'm actually trying to get a couple started, as the honeybees like them, and they bloom later in the summer when there are...

I'd never heard of a SS hose until I saw it in a catalog. I'd be up for replacing one hose at a time, if they are as good as they sound. I have a LOT of hose. Probably 300 feet to service the downhill garden, and 75-100 to take care of any hose needed in the front yard. We have a splitter at...

Wow, those look good! I would love to dehydrate some onion/garlic, but oh, the SMELL!!! I assume you didn't smell onion when you FD'd it, right? How would you FD potatoes? Would you need to blanch the at all first? Do you need to blanch veg before FD?

Today I started digging out some grass in one corner of the garden. I kept finding Japanese Beetle grubs, so I put those in a bucket for the chickens. I must have collected 50-60 grubs. Free chickie snack today. Yeah, that means I have a lot of grubs still out there, because I didn't dig up...

I'd love one of those steam weeders! But I'd need one with either a cord 1/8 mile long, or else battery operated.

I put my peppers (and tomatoes) in the ground, and we will have some cool nights in this coming week as well. I know that they'll sit there, staring at the sky for a few days/weeks before they get going again. So it goes... I did not know that peppers like to be close to each other! I'm filing...

The third time WILL be the charm, er, chard, right? This time, I soaked the chard seed overnight, used a different variety, and planted them in pots full of compost. If these don't sprout, I will figure that the garden gods do not want me to have my own chard.

The deer and rabbits here have not eaten our poison ivy. :(

We got a scant half inch of rain, I think. I haven't checked the bucket in the garden that is my rain gauge. I'm happy to have any rain! I have a bunch of old hay bales and I'm going to peel "slices" off to use for mulch.

I'm doing the same for chard. First planting: 2/15. Soaked the seed the second time and 2/14. I bought a different packet and have 20 seeds soaking right now. Last year I started 4, lost 3 to frost, and got 1 luffa. This year, I have higher hopes.

All plants are in the ground. I will have time to bake a loaf of bread tomorrow. :yesss: Some time in the not-too-distant future, I'll wash and clean all the pots and store them for next year.

Luffa is invasive?? I have to BEG it to grow here! :th Oh, please, grow, little vine! Please flower, please make a gourd, please grow the gourd big enough to make a sponge-thingie before frost.

All the plants are in except for a few luffa. Last year, I had about 33% germination, so I planted all 21 seeds in the packet. And all 21 grew. So now I need to find more places for them to grow and climb. But the 60ish tomatoes are in. Whew. My back, knees, and legs are glad.