Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

Ya I really don’t know much about leeks other than they look a lot like garlic and onions. One of the garlics (about 10-15 of the plants in picture) I planted was elephant garlic and that might be technically a leek but really not sure of the difference to be honest

 

Elephant garlic is different from leeks other than they look similar above ground. Leeks are kind of like mild onions, and are not round, more cylindrical. They are good in soups, and you can put a lot of them in without overpowering it.

 

I never understood why taxonomists have elephant garlic classified as closer to a leek than to regular garlic lol

in any case, we like to use it when we can spaghetti sauce because it’s so much easier to peel a bunch of it

 

Was once told is kinda like a cross between an onion & a tulip. Don’t much care. I eat ‘em up as soon as I can get ‘em. Local Asparagus too but still way too early up here.

 

Everything blooming at once, purple irises, azaleas, and the salvia.

 

Seedlings are coming along. Hope to move them outside in about a week and plant them a couple weeks later. Various peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and marigolds. Some of them go out to family. My 80 year old Dad always wants me to start him some Golden Jubilee tomatoes.

 

Looks great.

 

All these posts look outstanding! I’m very much late on all aspects of my gardening. I have a question though. Does anyone think I will have any luck separating this lilac I got for my wife for Mother’s Day ? When I bought my house I cleared a bunch of stuff away from it an left a lavender lilac on one corner . I picked this one up today. It looks like I can get two off of it . Thoughts?


didn’t mention that one lilac I took out was white

 

Lilacs usually split well , their root systems are always sending out laterals that shoot up as new shrubs

 

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Good to know , thanks

 

Anyone like green onions?

 

Well, got ‘er cleaned up at least. Removed all the dead carcasses, leaves & such. Gotta wait til it stays above freezin’ overnight to move forward.

 

Looks like hold overs from last year. They are going to seed. Won't be much good for eating, but you can collect the seeds if you want.

 

They Look like they already seeded with the big poof on the end. That at my mom's house and she still uses them for cooking.

edit: boy i butchered half those words

 

They haven't finished going to seed yet. The top part will open up sort of like a dandelion head, but without the fuzzy blow off part.

Yea you can get a little off them to cook, but most of it is tough stalk.

 

After just one night stuff’s comin’ up. Perennial favourites be my guess.

 

I went in the garden and looked around at what needs to be done . Weather is still shitty here to plant anything . Scattered frost tonight they say .

 

There are lots of things that will tolerate frost. We are still getting below freezing almost every night and I have onions, spinach, lettuce, kale, chard, beets, and carrots planted. Potatoes, peas, radishes, and turnips can also handle frost.

 

This years garden is now fully in. I enjoy this time of year. Fresh tilled, no weeds. Won’t last I know, but it looks good for now.

 

Garden? What Garden. That’s Big enough to be sharecroppin’.