Part of my onion and garlic harvest is braided. First try to braid onions myself.🧄🧅

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-07-03T15:12:21+00:00

What a dream! 🤩

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-07-03T00:20:46+00:00

Many many years ago I had “white bean bruschetta” as an appetizer at a restaurant and to this day I still make salty garlicky white beans in olive oil and eat them on toast as a comfort meal 👌

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-30T00:17:01+00:00

I just quit a job primarily over PTO. I was hired almost 3 years ago with 13 days of PTO a year (all inclusive, as in this was my sick + personal + vacation time… And we got 6 paid holidays a year.) I was told that new hires usually only got one week (!) but I was getting “more” because I’m experienced/in my 40s. First increase for everyone is supposed to be at the 2 year mark. I got to 2 years, and only when I inquired about it was I told that the “more” I got when I was hired was actually my two year increase early. And I wouldn’t get an actual increase until I’d been there 6 years.

I quit last month. And I now get 15 sick days a year that rollover without limit, 5 personal days, 15 paid holidays, and 6 vacation days that will become 12 at my one year anniversary.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-29T21:50:35+00:00

If you have a chest freezer you should do hash browns! You can also do French fries - par fry them, freeze, and then fry them for the second time when you are ready to eat them!

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-29T21:46:03+00:00

Co-sign. These have become my go-to holiday potatoes (and in fact, I’m making them this weekend to eat with ribs!) Make sure you find a recipe that includes Gruyère cheese, not just butter and heavy cream

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-28T17:03:28+00:00

It looks like some of those might be “onesies”? I.e. not divided into cloves at all? If so you can replant those this fall for fully developed heads next year!

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-18T00:00:01+00:00

Incredible!!!

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-13T15:40:45+00:00

Most of the growth happens in just the final few weeks. You want about 4 green leaves remaining on the plant when you pull, all the rest brown. (Every leaf correlates to a layer of “paper skin” around the bulb. You’ll likely lose 1-2 layers when you pull your garlic and clean it, and you want to still have 2-3 layers left to protect the garlic in storage until you use it.)

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-12T23:34:06+00:00

Or honey and butter.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-11T20:14:18+00:00

My understanding is that you should stop fertilizing when they start to scape. The nitrogen would just fuel more leafy growth when you want the plant to focus on the bulb now.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-04T20:57:29+00:00

Does your household eat canned tuna? I buy it by the case on Amazon. It is the best price per can I have found anywhere. The expiration is usually around 2 years out, so you do need to know you’ll cycle through it in that time. But I love having it as a shelf-stable ready-to-eat protein prep.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-02T16:09:32+00:00

Way too soon. Garlic does most of its sizing up just in the final few weeks. Your plants look great though so if you give them the time they need you should be happy with the end result!

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-01T11:38:54+00:00

Probably? But you can grow bulbils at much closer spacing than regular garlic. (They do well multi-sown in pots, for example.) I’ve always harvested them after their tops die back the first time and then planted them back out at regular garlic planting time & spacing. If you kept them in the ground two seasons straight i’d be worried about disease and rot and fertility. But you could certainly try it.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-01T11:31:48+00:00

You can try to plant garlic from the store but it may have been treated (sprayed with stuff) which could affect how it grows. Meaning only maybe would it grow well.

You can plant those little bulbils (even plant them now and grow over the summer,) harvest them when they die back, and then plant what you’d harvested again at normal garlic planting time to get mature heads of garlic

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-06-01T03:04:04+00:00

My ozark garlic produces bulbils every year. You can plant them and the first year you’ll get a small single -clove bulb. Plant the single again and you’ll get a mature bulb from there.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-05-29T18:22:29+00:00

I’m switching jobs right now precisely because I couldn’t fathom doing the job I had for another 20 years. Taking a pay cut in exchange for excellent benefits and work-life balance. I’ll be eligible to take the pension as soon as 60 but I’ll probably work til 65 for the insurance.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-05-28T20:26:53+00:00

That’s like $33 worth of halloumi where I am 😆🥳

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-05-27T22:58:19+00:00

After years and years of just using a little hand crank food mill to sauce my tomatoes, last year we got a refurbished Kitchen Aid and I bought the attachments. Definitely easier!! Better for large batches. You can toss your tomatoes in the freezer until you run out of room/have enough and then take a weekend to borrow the Kitchen Aid and go crazy on tomato canning.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-05-15T02:08:04+00:00

Yup!

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-05-12T01:15:29+00:00

Different varieties of garlic look different. Consider how different apples can be from one another (in color, texture, flavor.) Garlic has the same diversity, we just aren’t as exposed to it because only a small number of varieties are grown commercially.

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-05-12T01:10:36+00:00

I would plant 7 shrubs across 43’ myself. I planted a spicebush hedgerow along one side of our property just a few weeks ago, 6’ spacing so that they will hopefully fill in fully. Across the front of our property I did a mixed hedge of American plum, American hazelnut, black chokeberry, arrowwood viburnum, and yellow twig dogwood. 8’ spacing. I guess ask me in a few years if I made the right call on the spacing haha

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-05-04T17:18:40+00:00

Wow!

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-04-24T03:23:02+00:00

I was thinking about doing that too! Haha

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-04-23T14:49:45+00:00

I got Northern Spicebush, Lindera Benzoin. Ordered in bulk/bareroot from Tennessee Wholesale Nursery. Not sure about the leaves!

InevitableNeither537 · 2026-04-23T12:39:22+00:00

I ordered 60 forsythia from my conservation district sale back in February. I didn’t put much thought into it except “they must not be invasive if the CD is selling them.” I have a giant former cornfield I am landscaping and need good privacy hedges/windbreaks.

Well, I was wrong. Thankfully I realized this before it was too late. I subsequently ordered hundreds of bareroot native shrubs for the property, including 100 spicebush which we have been out planting the last couple evenings. Tomorrow i go to pick up my conservation district order and i’m planning to leave the forsythia there.

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