Me too @shrinkrap & @biondanonima.
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@Lambchop, here is what I call my “HO” garlic. They are pretty small. There are two I haven’t pulled which might be bigger.
Thanks for posting @shrinkrap. Our garlic sometimes comes out quite small too - all depends on the growing year. Other times, quite large. H is expecting kind of an average crop for this year. Will be interesting to see what next year brings.
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Both envious and sad about your Blenheim apricots. Sad the birds got most, but happy you snagged a few. Not sure I’ve even tried that variety, but did try to find them at our specialty produce market last year. Even the manager couldn’t tell me the varieties they had in or were expecting to get.
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I always say I am going to do something creative with them, but then I always end up using them to stock the freezer with pesto. Garlic scape pesto is my absolute favorite - there’s just something irresistible about the texture and sweet, nutty flavor.
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Encouraged by your success, I’m trying to grow roots with 4 stalks I got from store. After reading your experience, I will try to cut more the stalk. I started yesterday, so a week to go.
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I’ve never thought to buy a plant by mail - where did you buy from?
Thank you. I still have a dozen or so apricots to harvest, and a lot to learn about growing apricots in containers , and hope to park some of what I learn this year here.
For example Green apricots info
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We are able to get good apricots from the sunnier, hotter and drier Eastern part of Wa. Think we could grow them, and produce fruit, but I don’t think we’d be pleased with the result. I’ve yet to have a truly good peach grown in my area. We finally cut our pear tree down, but some do ok. Apples, and plums seem to do best for tree fruit.
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@Saregama - I ordered from citrus.com. I looked at several website options, but the few places that were closer to me in New England were out of stock… The business is based in the South (I’m forgetting the state), and the nursery they partner with is in Louisiana. My little tree came with a certificate that verifies it was treated properly, etc. which I didn’t even know was a thing.
There are varying prices on the cuttings online, based on the size and maturity of the tree you’ll get, so read the description clearly. Some descriptions will tell you if it’s a 5 inch stub or if it’s a 12-18 inch cutting. Mine is the latter, so I was willing to pay more for that. I also ordered it on Memorial Day when they offered a nice discount on shipping. This site was quite responsive - got an email noting it was shipped with a tracking number as within 24 hrs.
@naf - good luck with your lemongrass too!
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Here’s a how to;
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“The original idea for these cages came from Raybos post on tomato Ville.”
Nice fruits. Possible to see your tree and a closeup of the leaves?
Sure, but they (I also have two pluots) look pretty wretched right now.
Here’s some from about 10 days ago.
Is it close up enough?
And some peppers!
ETA ! a picture of leaves I took today.
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This is a chicory flower, often grown in salad mixes. Bitter at best, but yummy mixed with other salad greens like lettuce and mustard, arugula, and mizuna. that one bolted because they prefer fall planting. Great photo!
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Chicory comes in many forms…heck even on the road side with almost no leaves to speak off.
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Thanks and welcome !
Thanks for the photos! I’m impressed. For a potted fruit tree, it’s doing very well. You must share your secrets! What other fruit trees you have in containers?
I’ve a dwarf peach tree that was doing fine a few years ago, and for consecutive years it has the leaf curl fungus and I will make my last attempt to save the plant by repotting this year, I’ve got rid of all the fruits and sicked leaves and used copper to treat. It has lovely red leaves.
I’ve a few citrus, raspberries and a cherry tree in containers. The various citrus are not producing much. Raspberries are the easiest and they grow bigger each year! I’ve 2 fig trees as well. Strangely, the younger one that I duplicate from the older one is doing better than the original tree.
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Right now the only other trees in containers are two pluots; Dapple Dandy, and I think this is Flavor Grenade, or something like that.
I used to have a Meyer lemon in a half barrel, but put it in the ground when we moved about 25 years ago.
In the ground I have a Nectar Zee nectarine, as Black Jack fig, two Meyer lemons, a blood orange that’s done very poorly, a pineapple guava that was here when we moved here, and two grapes (Thompson and Perlette) that I really should do better with.
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A warm welcome to HO!
I agree they are really a good mix with other greens. I’ve planted them in autumn last year, and have consumed them till a few weeks ago, now with warmer weather, the lettuce, chicory, arugula are all flowering.
Do you grow some edible plants?
