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RE: FANTASTIC GARLIC HARVEST! BAM! WOW! ~ Gardeners and Cooks Delight! - 📷 [Video inside]

in #homesteading7 years ago

LMAO!!... "maybe he's a cook in the military" priceless!! beautiful harvest of garlic. I am about to harvest my first crop of lettuce and will be replanting, cuccumbers and beans are coming along great...my root crops not so much. the radishes, beets and carrots all seemed to put all of their energy into producing greens this spring...nothing worth keeping of the first radish harvest.. all of the tubers were hard fibrous little things that while flavorful, were far too woody to consume... hoping the second crop is better. Heard somewhere that root vegetables for the most part, do not like rich fertile soil, and will often produce leafy tops instead of producing the root.. so we have stopped feeding them entirely and will see how it goes... As always, i love your content Zac, keep em coming. upvoted!

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Good point with the root vegetables. I had the same experience with my radishes - beautiful tops and disappointing roots. I will experiment with that too. Thanks for the tip!

no problem, this year was my first attempt at root vegetables.. I live in a urban environmet, so what i grow is limited. I am experimenting right now to find what varieties i can grow successfully. So when i am able to buy my homestead i will already have enough experience gardening so i will have many food crop varieties i can successfully grow. I've learned quite a bit from Zac and his videos @mericanhomestead , and many others who have channels on gardening on youtube...