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To: Wneighbor
VERY glad the fires were far away...

I know Texas is a big place...

How are your onion experiments coming?

The 6 I tried are now 3 inches tall - yesterday morning they looked like this:

Will have to get more to start a pot to put in the kitchen South window.

The other ones just coming up in the rest of the tray are an experimental variety for me... Heirloom Ailsa Craig Onions - supposed to be very big and very sweet... Will see.

3,667 posted on 03/04/2009 8:50:36 AM PST by DelaWhere ("Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe)
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To: DelaWhere

Well, I didn’t put my onions into flats like you did. I stuck them out in a bed. I don’t see anything yet but I did have a bit of excitement (for me) today when I went out and saw my tater experiment was working. I used a method somebody emailed me from DIY. You plant the taters in a large trash bag in only 4 inches of mulch. Started them a month early because I could move the trash bags into the greenhouse for the freezes. Well, I got poo-poo’d by a couple of people around the area where I live. But, I got taters up today.

For this when the taters come up you add a layer of leaf mulch or just crushed up leaves to cover up the tater leaves each time they start poking through. That way when the taters are ready to harvest you’ve got layers of ‘em all up and down the trash bag. Since they did come up - I am at least started with the experiment. Will keep you posted on the progress through the spring.


3,696 posted on 03/04/2009 2:36:42 PM PST by Wneighbor
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