There was just so much to do! Speaking of that. Now that the majority of things are filling out it really does not feel like there will be much work left to do to maintain it all.
Here's to front loading a bunch of work in the down time! .... and Michigan weather allowing me to do just that!
In an earlier posting it was mentioned that a few solanums might have been sacrificed along the way.... If and only if the last of winter depths this evening doesn't put the nail in.... Those decimated two-foot tall (planted the stems deep) polish linguista and Brandywines are going to come back! The baren-lifeless stalks are sprouting leaves. :) Who knew?
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| Leaf Sprouts on the lower Right |
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| Sprouting on the Lower Half |
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| This is the onion bed. It is in here because I find it a gorgeous sight! |
OK. The above photo is the onion bed. A mixture of leek, amposta, stutts (grown from seed), and the jumbo sweets from sets. 9 plants wide and (from a counting inside through the window) 19 long. 171 onions? I'm sure there is around 30 left in a flat in the backyard. What do we need 200 onions for???
side note : Planted the raspberry and blueberry bushes today. ;)
One winter, in AZ, my friend left her potted tomatoes out during a freeze, while I brought mine inside. When it warmed up, her "dead" tomatoes not only began growing from the bottoms, as yours are, but it soon grew taller and bushier than my protected ones! They were the very same variety, and came from the same 4-pack!
ReplyDeleteYo'd be surprised how fast those onions can grow. I usually plant two bunches (around 120) and by the time i use some small green onions for salads and stir fries, splurge on French Fried onion rings or burgers covered with caramelized onions, use them in soups and stews and raw slices and salsa....well, let's just say none of them go to waste!
ooo, or french onion soup..... Ok, fine Granny, call my bluff. I will figure out something to do with every last one of them...;)
DeleteThey can also be chopped and frozen to use for cooking all winter :-) Freeze them loose, an a big cookie sheet, then bag them. That way you can scoop out just what you need to use. Unless you take them to Arizona, like I did, and they thaw in the bag and all stick together in a big hard block when refrozen :-(
DeleteAwesome that you tomatoes woke up! Hope they'll beging growing very fast and will have great harvest. And you can never have too many onions! I planted just over 200 and wish I had more space for more Vidalia or supersweet onion varieties - I use them in cooking all the time, especially in winter onion soup is soooo good!
ReplyDeleteWe use them nearly every meal as well. However, it is a different mindset to think of storing hundreds for daily use as oppose to purchasing a handful. ;)
DeleteYes. I have high hopes for the Tomatoes. As do I with the next set of solanums germinating under the lights right now.
I concur-we will most definitely get winter back next year. Start planning those row covers!! ;) You have lots of spare time for planning because our Wings are picking up golf clubs. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteOh how that pains us so....
DeleteOur only solace rests in the Pens with Crosby are out in the same round. Seems odd though that the last year or two they have dropped in the same round as us.