Playing Catch-up

It is getting just a tad too hot out for me so I am going to try and get up to date here.

First of all, the geraniums are still hanging in the cellar waiting for me to remember that they exist. I got busy and forgot all about the poor dears. I am going to pretend that I didn’t for get then and if they aren’t covered with mold, I’m going to try to get them going. I will report back on that if it ever actually happens.

Garlic report: Both of the test beds and the control are all doing well.
Remember that I planted my half sprouting leftovers from the year before in July rather than composting them and then waiting to plant the best of the new crop in October as usual.
The cloves that were planted last July in soil through a thick layer of straw seem to be doing the best. The survival rate is high and the stalks are almost an inch across.
The ones that were just placed on slightly loosened ground and then covered with a good thick layer of straw didn’t fare as well. Only a third of them survived but the ones that did are huge like the first bed’s.

The traditionally planted cloves seem to have had a 100% survival rate and the stalks look fine—about 5/8s of an inch, as usual.

I’m wondering if the huge girth of the July planted garlic is a good or bad thing and hoping that the rain lets up so that whatever I get has some decent flavor.

About another month and I’ll know!