Seeding pepper basil

December 9/18
One 38 cell tray basil 5-7 seeds per cell
One tray hot pepper
23 chocolate habanero 5pp
15 ghost pepper 5pp

Split cyclamen dieffenbachia palm pot

Bonsai given to Francine November 9-ish

Hagersville Auction Squash Friday November 2

Squash for $2 each
Including some butternut squash

Orange Hubbard- Fina says part was rotten
Banana squash - it was soft inside - flesh more like pumpkin flesh

Oct 24 - last square of sweet potato

Sweet potato harvest

Orange varieties had less foliage
Red Ontario box had denser foliage
Think the red variety is Murasaki -Japanese variety- pink/red skin white flesh

Yellow variety got 20-25 lb per each 4 ft by 4 ft square
Red variety 10-12 lb per 4 by 4 square-

Pepper hot and wait

A QUART CONTAINER OF PEPPERS-

Cayenne 318 grams

Chocolate Habanero 200 gr

Scotch Bonnet 223 gr

Ghost Pepper 165 gr

OCtober 2018

Walmart Habanero $3.97 for 113 gr

Superstore 80 gr cayenne $3.98 looks like 5-6 red and yellow

Superstore 50 gr Habanero 3.98 looks like 6

Food Basics 113 gr Scotch Bonnet $3,99 about 12

IGA Habanero 9.99 /lb

Walnut bark scoring

Butternut squash harvest

 

looks like 50 pieces + 6 or so already eaten

Granddaddy portulacaria bonsai

Pre and post potting
October 2018

Eggplant

Starter bonsai

 

 

  

  

Garlic family tree

https://www.growingformarket.com/articles/garlic-varieties
https://www.garlicfarm.ca/garlic-history.htm
https://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/garlic-101.html

   In 2003, Dr. Gayle M. Volk of USDA’s National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins, CO, did DNA fingerprinting of 211 varieties of garlic. Many were so genetically similar as to be statistically the same. However, she found that there are 10 distinct types: silverskin and artichoke are the two softneck types; rocambole, porcelain, purple stripe, marble purple stripe, Asiatic, turban, creole, and glazed purple stripe are hardneck types.

five very different hardneck varieties called Porcelain, Purple Stripe, Marbled Purple Stripe, Glazed Purple Stripe, and Rocambole; three varieties of weakly bolting hadnecks that often produce softnecks - Creole,Asiatic and Turban, plus two distinct softneck varietal groups; Artichoke and Silverskin

For beginning garlic growers, here are the basics :

Botanically, all culinary garlics are in the species Allium sativum. There are two sub-species: the hardneck or ophio garlics, which have scapes; and the softneck Rose  garlics, which don’t.

     

Hardneck garlic is more flavorful and the cloves are bigger and easier to peel than softnecks. Softneck garlic, the kind usually found in supermarkets and often imported, has the best storage life and is easier to braid than hardnecks. 

Growers with freezing winter weather can grow either hardneck or softneck garlic, but have the best success with hardnecks. Growers in warm winter areas do better with softnecks. 

the Asiatics and Turbans developed in the East, while the Creoles developed in Spain and southern France and Artichokes and Silverskins developed Italy and elsewhere in Europe.

five very different hardneck varieties called 

Porcelain- Music, Italian Hardneck,Yugoslavian, German Hardneck

Purple Stripe- Mexican Purple,

Marbled Purple Stripe- Bogatyr, Duganskij

Glazed Purple Stripe- Purple Glazer

Rocambole Spanish Roja, German Red, Russian Red

three varieties of weakly bolting hardnecks that often produce softnecks - 

Creole- Rose de Lautrec

Asiatic -Japanese

Turban -Thai

plus two distinct softneck varietal groups; 

Artichoke and 

Silverskin.

Garlic under poly sept 20/18

A few starting to sprout

Norwegian Creek Farm garlic planted sept 19,2018

Japanese GARLIC

BOUGHT 6 medium bulbs

= 30 cloves

largest at east end

5 rows of 5,6,6,6,7

1st row had gigantic cloves- possibly doubles

Purple Glazer 4 medium bulbs yielded 48 cloves

1 row of 6

then 6 rows of 7

THAI garlic bought 4 medium yielded 32 cloves

3 rows of 6 larger ones

2 rows of 6 smaller

Rose de Lautrec garlic 3 cloves + 1 extra n/c yielded 35 cloves

a few cloves were very large- a lot of smaller cloves

1 row of the 5 huge one + 2

4 rows of 5 singles and a few doubles

Garlic order received from Norwegian

Last row

Rest of medium Fitzki 4 across
Then some Fitzki scapes from 2 years ago planted fall 2016

Poly row

From tracks
30 german red
24 Mexican purple
30 duganski
18 red Russian
Rest in Fitzki double poly at this end as is folded over


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175 large Fitzki 25 rows of 7

3 section garlic

House side
9 @7 duganski garlic
9 rows Fitzki large
8 rows German red
24@7= 168

3 kinda garlic

49 Italian fairly large cloves from bulbs without blemish
77 Spanish Roja
49 music

Garlic sept 6/18

49 (7x7) Bogatyr at one end
70 Mexican purple middle
German hardneck at west end

German hardneck

52cloves

Yugoslavian garlic

24x7 equals 168 total