The Egyptian Walking Onions I brought here did their usual thing this winter - looked like hell. I did cover them during the worst freezes. Now, they are growing like crazy, tall and totally green. I have got to get a 4x4 above the ground planting box to put them in. That is the only onion I will ever have as they grow on their own through hot weather and freezing weather. Being wild to start with made them hardy I suppose - either grow on their own or they died and they chose not to die.
Other than that, hope to get some good tomato plants at a nursery (can you say Lowes?) so we can have bacon and tomato sandwiches. When we made the trip up north, I bought REAL thick bacon and froze it. That is one thing the north does better than we do, have REAL thick bacon. I got this bacon at a meat market where Lehman's is in Ohio. That's the land of the Amish. They believe in real meat. I laid out the bacon individually so we could take as many as we wanted out of the package without tearing up the rest.
I got a hand coffee bean grinder at Lehman's. Bob only has coffee BEANS of different kinds and blends the beans in the electric grinder every morning - no blend is the same every day. If power is out, NO COFFEE as there was no way to grind the beans - hence, the manual grinder. Being the prepper I am, I also have jars of instant coffee as backup. ANY coffee is better than none.
I'm happy with the walking onions. I checked them today when I checked the asparagus. Lots of walking onions, and not much asparagus. Everything was clogged with detritus from the fall, so I moved leaves and cleaned that little area out.
/johnny
I agree - any coffee is better than no coffee, but that instant stuff is really pretty poor. I actually have various teas that make a pretty good tasting hot beverage. Still nothing beats coffee.
Those onions are the best. Johnny did you share with Marcella? Happy if you did. Ours in west Michigan go dormant looking in the winters. I don’t mulch, we have enough leaves that cover them. I can see my patch poking up. The real reason they are so hardy is the root systems are so developed and long. They root deep. When I want some I need a sharp long shovel to get them out. I share the seed heads for anyone who wants them to keep my patch from getting too big. Some seed heads have seeds so big I peel them and use them as shallots. The bigger onions - some have gotten small leek sized - are great on the grill, just clean up, trim off some of the green and coat with your favorite oil, salt and pepper. They are sweet! My original patch is over 25 years old as near as I can figure. I still grow the traditional green onions, give most of them away. Marcella have a great visit with Johnny. Give him a big hug from all of us.