Just planted my garden this past Saturday

[Mind_your_head]

Planted some things that I've never grown before, such as garlic, carrots, celery.

Will see how it all grows.

Garlic....I bought it from a garden center, so I hope that they put it through its "cold period" so that it breaks through its dormancy

carrots....I'm not quite sure when to know to harvest

celery...120 days to harvest! 4 months! I don't know if my celery is 'gonna work'....but it's all a "learning experience" I suppose.

:-)

[NEOhiodemocrat]

1. I grew celery for the first time last year

It did not turn out like the celery you purchase in the produce department. I did not protect the stalks (by stacking something around the sides so sun did not get to them) so they did not whiten but stayed green. Found they were good for soups and really gave a good celery flavor in cooking. You can chop and freeze, put in small containers in the freezer to use all winter long. Carrots you just pull one up now and then and see how big they are growing. Well, unless you just want to dig gently down one side and take a look. I haven't ever grown garlic. You will have to let us know how it does.

[Mind_your_head]

2. Thanks for the 'heads-up' about celery

I'll read up about it now....(protecting the stalks, etc.).

The carrots have 'taken'....little (teeny tiny) green leaves for now

Garlic ....no signs of life so far.

Celery .....has been "under attack" from bunnies (apparently)....one of my four celery plants was chewed down to nothing but a stub. I spread some blood meal around the perimeter of the celery, which has kept 'the chewer/bunny(?) away from the celery, but then 'whatever it was (bunny?)' went on to attack my parsley! So, more blood meal went around the parsley. So far, it seems to have worked. I don't mind 'sharing' with outdoor animal 'friends', but total destruction of the crop, doesn't do either one of us any good, eh? lol

I thinned out my radishes today. I dug a clump of them out and broke some of them apart from each other and planted them in their own dirt hole. The other half of the radishes I just thinned out the 'traditional way'. My little experiment to see what works better/is worth the effort.

[nc4bo]

3. Cheers to a great growing season and good luck with the trial veggies. nt

[Mind_your_head]

4. Thanks....and I just want to report that I've GOT GARLIC coming up!

:woohoo: