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Comment by Matt on October 19, 2008 at 9:06pm

I got my garlic in this morning. I bought a bunch of garlic cloves from Paris Farmers Union about 10 years ago and I keep planting part of what I grow so I've been self sufficient in garlic and maybe have my own strain by now! Who knows. At any rate I'm happy with it. Stiff neck rocambole type.

My parents and grandparents were home gardeners, but none of them ever grew garlic. It was not a "Maine" thing. Actually, I don't think I really ate fresh garlic until I was in college. We always used, if we used it at all, garlic powder and garlic salt. Some things do change for the better!

Comment by capaky on September 6, 2008 at 5:35pm

I am still harvesting cucumbers and tomatos! I completely missed the balckberries this summer though and my greenbeans never made it more than 6 inches off the ground. Too much rain for them this year!

Comment by Jingles on September 4, 2008 at 11:13am

Yikes, we have harvested the tomatos and will do the pumkins this weekend. No Zuchinni, or cukes for weeks. Winter is coming!

Comment by Matt on April 29, 2008 at 7:42pm

Thanks for the wishes on the peaches. What kind of apples are you planting?

Comment by Koren on April 23, 2008 at 8:02am

I am getting ready to plant some fruit trees as well good luck on the peaches. :-) I am going to attempt apple trees.

Comment by CB on March 24, 2008 at 8:03pm

Hmmm..good idea. Thanks! I like the thought of a pea fence I can yank up at the end of the season and toss back into the woods where it came from.

Comment by Matt on March 24, 2008 at 6:47pm

I use chicken wire. I can understand why you don't like it though, I always wind up bleeding after putting up the fence. For a couple of years I grew peas on "brushy twigs" about 3-4 feet high stuck into the ground. I got the idea from a book about French gardens. It worked good, but I ran out of brush. If you have a lot of birch or alder brush to get rid of try it.

Comment by CB on March 23, 2008 at 9:01pm

Correction....didn't use a trellis, but a piece of plastic lattice supported by two posts. Looks pretty, but didn't allow them to climb well.

Comment by CB on March 23, 2008 at 8:59pm

Living a little farther North, it depends on snowcover. Right now, there's still quite a bit, so mid-April doesn't seem likely. I've found that when I tried to plant them very early (i.e. while the ground was still very cold and wet) they just sat there and didn't germinate. I've also planted peas quite late into the season (early July) and still got plenty. Since we're talking about peas, I've had trouble deciding which is the best support for them to climb. Tried chicken wire, netting and trellis... not really thrilled with any of them. Any recommendations?