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“Maybe you could put the pots with onions on top of the old garden area, and let them walk over the side and all over the old garden patch?”

The walking onions are in a long planter sitting on top of that garden area. And, another one has popped up as of this morning, so that’s eleven of them in that planter.

Here’s the situation: When I bought this place, the dirt garden was totally covered with weeds and little trees from droppings of the two big oak trees behind the back fence. There was an actual tree in that small space and some kind of very large fern plant in the middle. A lady who was helping with my move, wanted the huge fern thingy, which was fine with me, so she dug that up. Then, we got a tree company to cut down that tree because it put shade over the garden and nothing would have gotten enough sun to grow.

Then, my son and a friend of his, cleaned out all the weeds and little tree plants growing. Then, they installed a permanent for life cover over the whole thing to prevent weeds from growing. When we planted all the roses bushes and climbing roses, we cut holes in that cover to plant those roses. Husband put mulch over the cover so it wouldn’t look like a bare cover over the whole garden, except where the roses were. Weeds have grown in the mulch, but one just pulls on them and they come right up as they aren’t in the actual dirt, just in the mulch.

If I put a walking onion in a pot and set it out in the garden, the onions would walk onto the mulch and not in the dirt since the cover is over the dirt. Also, I wouldn’t want a whole garden of walking onions even if the dirt was there for them to walk on.

When I planted beans against the back lattice, those beans were planted in holes where the climbing roses had been. The same with the two squash plants I planted in dirt, I planted them in holes where the bush roses had been. I didn’t cut any new holes in that cover.

If the SHTF and there was no food to buy, that cover would be taken off and the whole dirt area planted and the squirrels would be removed “permanently”.

Maybe that gives you a better idea how the dirt garden is set up.

When Wayne and his friend cleared the dirt garden of rocks and weeds, and installed that cover, his friend was his college roommate buddy and the friend is an engineer. He planned, in inches, the installation of that cover, and it was scientifically covered by his mathematical calculations and calculated numbers of stakes were put in and that cover will never move and fits perfectly to the inch.

There was a stump in the side forward area, and the engineer kept at that stump for two days until he got it out.

My job was to furnish drinks and food as they did that work.