Mark , a faithfulPatreon supporterwho started supporting my work during the superlative of the Covid pandemic earlier this yr , was generous enough to also send me a crowd – and by a bunch I think 400 – of onion starts for fall .
Not only that , I also have more garlic , some unripe onion , and a clustering of multiplier onion from my friend Greg that demand to be planted .
All that to say – it ’s now Amaryllidaceae Day here at the Good Homestead !
Yesterday I plowed up a big area with my favorite adopt tractor , just for onion :
That ’s the ticket , mightily there . What a endearing vacuous canvas ! Here ’s a shot from the other corner :
I am going to plant the onions in rows 18″ apart , like I did with these brassicas :
Just got ta puff my wrangle marker matter this morning and get planting . you’re able to see this well-heeled - to - make row mark matter in activity in this telecasting :
When life gives you onions , establish them !
I think the tiller board on my homemade row God Almighty are deep enough that I can easily found all these onion plant starts .
As an aside , when I was using the tractor yesterday I re - did the main path through the garden and it look great .
To the left of the path you may see the three rows of multiplier onion I already found . They are thriving on Steve Solomon ’s fertiliser mixture . To the left you may see a half - bed of Allium cepa that did not get a dose of Solomon ’s atomic number 79 :
Ouch ! They are bantam !
experiment aside , the market garden rows are doing well . I trust we can grow some onion in the novel area . I ’ve not had fortune with onions but I only essay once some long time ago . If we get a few hundred well - bulbed Allium cepa in the spring I would be thrilled .
I till in some 10 - 10 - 10 and some of Steve ’s fertilizer mix in the newly tilled region and have high hopes . Based on the other single - wrangle gardens , I think this hope is justified . I ’ll film a television as I constitute today , then you may watch their progress over the wintertime .
detain tuned .
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