Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[R2elk]

Gardening question - I was given some garlic to plant - but the ground has frozen. What are my options - can i plant it in pots indoors, use the backhoe and dig a trench for the garlic and backfill with unfrozen compost, place it on the frozen ground and hill it with compost? any other suggestions?

I stuck a bulb in a pot in the house. It grew but got pretty flimsy. I probably kept it too wet and it died back. I stuck the pot out in the greenhouse. By spring it had come back up and I moved it to the garden. It even survived me hoeing most of it off.

 

[jvls1942]

If your frost isnt't too deep,
drill holes at regular planting distance apart.
fill the holes with compost and then mulch the whole bed deeply with mulch or straw.
try to drill the holes deep enough to get down into unfrozen dirt.
I never had to do this, but if I had to, this is what I would do.

 

[R2elk]

Northern Exposure

The black balls are air layers to root the stems.

 

[jvls1942]

I have a new computer . I am learning the new way to send pictures. wish me luck.

this was my total garden this summer.
3 tomatoes and one basil.
those stakes are wishful thinking.

 

[jvls1942]

Never too old to learn.
I am making sauerkraut for the first time.
My first batch was a small one. It turned out perfectly. Now I have a one gallon (10 lb) batch going. I make two pound batches and use one Tablespoon of salt. It took about four weeks for the first batch .
I am waiting for a sale on cabbage to make a five gallon batch..

 

[R2elk]

Merry Christmas!!!​

 

[Molpet]

https://www.highmowingseeds.com/vegetables.html

 

[jvls1942]

.....HAPPY.....
........NEW......
........YEAR......

 

[R2elk]

Happy New Year!!!​

 

[jvls1942]

I started a gallon of sauerkraut on halloween day.
today I canned eight pints.
have a smell batch that I will save to use immediately ish.. only about three pints in that batch..