Posted on 10/17/2020 7:02:29 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Thanks.... I have the bone meal and there is no need to water anything this time a year in the Pacific Northwest
I just finished digging up my potatoes.
I planted three varieties. Superior, Pontiac Red, and Kennebec.
The Superior gave me a very disappointing crop.
The Pontiac Red, did OK.
The Kennebec vastly outperformed the other two put together.
I got my garlic shipment FINALLY, and have gotten them in the ground.
I have some onions I replanted for seeds next year. I got them as onion sets in the spring and the bulbs just never grew, so I took the smallest ones and planted them for the seeds. Got 30 bulbs in the ground all put to bed for the winter.
OK, can the onions overwinter and survive?
Or should I dig them up and plant them in the spring after all after keeping them in cold storage?
The sites I’ve tried looking up don’t give the information I’m looking for.
It gets pretty cold here in NH in the winter, but the garlic does fine with mulch and I would expect that if I mulched the onions they should make it. Especially if we have a snowy winter.
“The Kennebec vastly outperformed the other two put together.”
They usually will. That’s a perfect variety for your new home/Zone.
I have over-wintered onions, kale, leeks and Brussels sprouts in Zone 4 with lots of mulch and a good snowfall. There may be some damage if you have a winter that freezes and thaws, freezes and thaws.
I’d dig and dry some now and leave some in the ground if you can afford to lose some. Your call.
I moved the ones in the ground and put in a few that I had dried for storage that were basically onion set size. I mulched it well with straw and likely we’ll have enough snow to help.
I do have enough to spare that if they don’t make it I can dip into my supply and plant again in the spring.
At the very least, even if I have to do that, the bed is all prepped and it will be easy to do.
I guess it all depends on what kind of winter we have. All the forecasts in the world about mild, harsh, snowy, not, whatever, are pretty much meaningless. We’ll find out what kind of winter it will be when it happens.
FWIW, I’ve had chives over winter for years. Interestingly, they divide just like other bulbs.
They are mushy in the spring so you have to wait until the leaves start growing again.
I even had lettuce overwinter once.
It was a plant I had not bothered to harvest because by late summer it was no good. It got buried in the snow, and come spring when the snow melted, there it was, happily growing away.
Gotta love that pumpkin spice! lol
I discovered early one morning this week that the butterfly had hatched! Was able to get a picture of it before it flew off. Don’t know how to post the picture. Snap dragons blooming again in colors of red and yellow. The impatience and caladiums are dying back and I’ll be pulling up the impatience this weekend and putting the caladiums into storage. Also collected seeds from a beautiful lime green coleus.
Cool on the Butterfly hatching! Ours have all flown the coop a few weeks ago. Hummingbirds are gone now, too.
The Goldfinches are coloring up a little, and there are now red Cardinals and blue Blue Jays, so still some color to look at besides colorful leaves. :)
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