drying garlic
Before leaving for vacation, I was short of time and threw my newly harvested garlic into a box in the basement. I found this nice video from Kitchen Gardeners about harvesting, curing and storing garlic. Hopefully my garlic will still dry OK after neglecting it last week.
sweet potato vines
My sweet potatoes seem to be doing very well. I bet they’ll exceed their plot – which I always enjoy. Maybe they’ll grow up the popcorn stalks or weave through the old broccoli plants. We’ll see.
beets are sizing up
I planted them close this year in clumps of 2-4 and they are pushing apart now. These are White Detroit.
planting sweet potatoes
I’ve never grown my own sweet potato slips before and I suppose I used a non-traditional method. They aren’t really slips, but little plants that I transplanted today. I transplanted about a dozen. I think I heard that they do OK in the shade, so I planted them next to my corn bed.
transplanting sweet potato slips
I cut up my sprouted sweet potatoes today and potted them up in a tray of soil.
seed potatoes arrived
I got a big box in the mail today – seed potatoes from Moose Tubers! Its a busy week in the garden.
more sweet potato info
Donald and CJ have great advice on growing sweet slips, so I am posting their comments here so I can find them more easily. I grew these for a few years at my Community Garden Plot in Hamilton Ont. Its a bit cooler here than Boston. To grow the slips, I put three tooth picks in the sweet potato and suspend them in a canning jar full of water. 1 ft slips are ideal. After the slips are 1 ft, put them in the canning jar to root. Space them…
sweet potato sprouts
I’m using my Christmas martini picks to support sweet potatoes in water glasses. They’re sprouting well. They grow slowly, so I’m glad I’ve started early. They are supposed to be a foot tall before planting out in May.
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy
weeks and counting until my last spring frost
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
