Gardening Season Start here
We have a lovely sun and very good weather in Greece these days and I think the gardening season just start here. So… I went out the morning to see my containers and seed trays.
The Creole Red garlic have beautiful green sprouts already and I plant more garlic today. It’s my first year with garlic in containers. I plant the first gloves in October and I was not sure how much time I must wait until I can see something green in my container.
But it’s not only the garlic, I had sowing some tomato seeds in January to see when they will germinate outside. I don’t have greenhouse but it’s ok, I live in Greece we have sun early here. This moment we have 18 °C (this is something like 64 °F) and I have my first germinated tomato seed. So I think I can start sow more seeds the next days.
I have in my mind that is only February and maybe we will have cold days the next weeks but in my country we used to say a quote about this situation, I can’t translate it exactly but it tells that even the February has bad weather it smells summer.
Glad your garlic is going well. I planted garlic for the first time this year. It sprouted quite quickly and seems to be growing like a dream. Keep us posted on your garlic!
Cheers
this is good! we will grow our first garlic together!
I’m behind on reading other people’s blogs, and I didn’t notice this post until now.
The garlic looks great. I haven’t looked at mine yet, because it’s covered with straw, but it probably looks about the same as yours. Home grown garlic tastes really good! I’m curious how this variety does for you. For me it grows okay, but I think it will do better for you because your climate is better.
I only found one seed in the pepper you sent me, but I’ve started it a few days ago, so we’ll see how it does… Soon I’ll try starting the pineas pinea too. The hibicus, oregano and 4-O-clocks I guess I’ll direct seed into the garden.
No problem Patrick, I didn’t have new posts because of winter
I have the garlics in containers because I didn’t went in my plot since September for personal reasons.I am curious if they will grow normally in containers.
I think about oregano I had send you… if your plot has many water maybe it’s good to try some of the seeds in container. Oregano hates water and loves sun.
I also think about the olives you want. My mother told me that from seed the olive trees are “wild”. I am not sure if it’s better and if I can send you a small plant or not
I see olive trees in plant stores here now. They are probably commercial varieties. Unless you think you have a special variety that I can’t get here, it’s probably better for me to just wait or buy something locally.
Kate (Hills and Plains blog) mentioned she had an olive tree nearby where she could just eat them off the tree, perhaps frying them in a little oil first. Do you have anything like that near you?
My olive trees are the variety of Chalkidiki (Halkidiki). They are big olives for food mostly.
I am not sure about Kate’s olives. All olives I know are bitternut in trees, it’s difficult to eat them off the tree.For this reason we put the olives in water with salt for a month at least and we change the water many times.