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This is my first time out of the box to try growing legumes. I’m not having a good result at all. Ellendra has advised me I need to be sure my varieties are planted at the right time for my locale, as most of mine are actually more suited to fall planting. As stated in a previous post, I see I have some homework to do to learn what are the best varieties to grow in our area...and when!

(It gives me comfort that I’m not the only one having troubles with legumes, - and you are experienced with them! I fully commiserate with you on the pitiful peas.)

Re: Onions: You are braver then me. I have not even had the courage to attempt onions. Marcella has mentioned an Egyptian variety called something like “Egyptian walking onions.” I would like to give those a try. Marcella, are those difficult to obtain, do you know?

What you are calling “Egyptian Walking Onions”, I call “Medusa Onions.” They are extremely prolific and come up every year, we have TONS. My dh makes soup with them often. The stalks are very good when young.

Someone gave them to us and I really don’t know what to make OF them. Am I supposed to eat those little top onions?

Egypt Walking Onions, or Egyptian Walking Onions, are easy to get and once you plant them, you have them forever but you have to contain them or they will fill your garden. If you planted some in your front yard, your whole front yard would eventually be these onions. Some people put metal into the ground around the onions to keep them where they want them. Others use a separate plot for the onions so they won't go into the regular garden. I'll put mine in a wood planter box on the ground and if they try to walk over the box onto the garden ground, I've said I would yell at them to get back in their house and if that didn't work, I'd trim back the ones trying to escape - just trim them back past the wall of the planter.

A fellow Freeper will send me a few. The very best website for these onions is below and you can order them from these people. Here is the link starting on the page with the pictures of the onions in their life cycle:

http://www.egyptianwalkingonion.com/photogalleryonionpatch.htm

I have two questions:

1. This is about which plants need to be started from seed outside the garden and then transplanted and which need to be “Direct Sow”.

I’m thinking, however, since every plant will be in a container for the life of the plant, never in the ground, that every seed could be planted in the container to start with (I hate ending a sentence with a preposition). Am I correct - plant all the seeds directly in the container - or not?

2. How long are seeds viable (approximately) when you buy a package of 2013 seed, assuming you keep them in the envelope in a house that is between 74-79 degrees?

“Egyptian walking onions.” I would like to give those a try. Marcella, are those difficult to obtain, do you know?

We got 50 of them for free at the town's free "yard waste" disposal area last year. They also have a "brush & branches" disposal site. They make & sell compost from it all. The onions are doing great.

We've also rescued several iris a few times; and last week, I brought home a potted century plant type cactus, sans pot.

Amazing what people throw out.