Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Finally.

Two days back over the weekend we purchased some jumbo sweet onion sets. Geesh they are inexpensive for so many! Makes you really wonder why bother growing from seed.

Although there is something nice about really choosing your preferred variety.

Either way it is a very long process of planting out over a hundred onions.

Along the way planted out the stuttgarts, Ampostas, and Leeks with the Jumbos. Things are really starting to move along. Garden is filling out nicely. The 'yard lettuce' is getting sizable. Mizuna looks like a horrible wig. The chard is finally growing. English peas and Radishes have broken soil.

Things are a foot.

Photos soon to follow.

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  1. We completely understand. We seeded tons of onions. They fit anywhere, why not then! We also bought a row of them from Agway, just to fill a gap. Our thinking is to do our best to make sure something's planted and, as much as we can within our limited knowledge and ability, something's planted under the right conditions for optimal production.
    Our leeks have been out for weeks, but they don't get a lot of sun. At this point I'm hoping their overwintering strength will provide a good crop next year!

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    1. The fall of the sun in the front yard means that the northern half gets all day sun while the southern beds gets the northern 50% sunned most of the day and then the southern portion gets ambient until later on which is gets a few hours of lower angled light.

      That is where I have the leeks planted out. It will be a nifty experiment to see how well they hold up. Leeks would certainly be my most favorite of alliums. I cannot wait til I can toss a few back yard spuds and some front yard leeks in a pot for soup. ooh boy!

      To catch up. I planted the rest of the brocoli in the front bed. Now there is a total of (15 on the east garden-wait one died in winter so 14) (25 in the front) 39. wooo. Lets hope the mix of sun is alright as well. maybe what will happen is the sunny ones will produce heads and then shoots post harvest while the non fully sunned ones come into their own head a bit later. ;) I'll of course pretend it was planned all along!!

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  2. I usually plan sets but this year I went with seedling plants so we'll see how they differe come harvest time.

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    1. You'll have to keep me in the know. I planted both. My seed started leeks, ampostas, stuttgarts, and di maggios. Along with the jumbo sweet starts. So far I am surprised that a few days later all of the 100 plus onions are doing well. Onions are hearty buggers.

      Let us hope those brassicas do the same.

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  3. I have the best luck with growing spring dug onion plants. I just put in 500, which is a years worth for me, and just like you I could not believe how LONG it took. I had a back ache the next day that was awful. It might be easier to eat less onions ;) Sounds like your garden is growing right along.

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    1. Hahaha. If we as humans knew the true weight of growing things we ate. We surely would consider moderation! ;)

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