Onions
Pulled the last onions tonight to dry them for winter storage. Good size crop of both white and red. Some rot from too much rain, but I can’t control the rain.
Top left big bulb is just-picked hard-neck garlic (about 3 1/2 inches across…the way you want it to be. To its left is a bulb that was planted in the spring. The bottom bulb came from an overlooked bulb left in the garden last year that grew wild. The two cloves to its right are…
Checked the dried and storage garlic today and found two that have sprouted little green tops. They will not keep now (the bulbs get mushy) so I planted them out with the winter garlic. This will test whether garlic should be planted in the fall or if it is ok to plant them in spring.
I am not allergic to bee stings. Thankfully. Today I caught a bee off a small clover blossom between my big toe and my sandal sole. Yep, stung me. So comical to be jumping around trying to get the sandal off with my hands full of veggies from the garden!
First plant just poked through today!!
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