Photo by Jessica Walliser The lettuce seeds are ready to plant in the garden. |
And so the work continues here. I’ll post some new pics next week of how the new patio is progressing. It will be a few more weeks until the grading work and retaining walls are done. In the meantime, it’s a big muddy mess out there, but it sure is fun to watch the progress happening.
I have finally gotten around to spreading the compost in the veggie patch and planting my lettuce, broccoli, cabbage and onions. I was very excited to find onion plants at a local nursery as I have always grown onions from sets and then read some research about how you get bigger onions by starting from seedlings. I called around to some local nurseries and was surprised that I could locate onion seedlings at only one store—and it’s almost an hour away! Thankfully, we have some friends that live close to this nursery so we made a stop on our way to a visit with them last week.
The seedlings came in bundles of 30. I got Walla Walla and Red Candy—two varieties that are supposed to be great for northern gardens. I’m tempted to plant a row of sets just to do a side-by-side comparison of the final product. I’m all about those kinds of experiments in the garden.
I was feeling kind of guilty about dedicating so much garden space to onions, but then I decided that they are one vegetable that we eat a lot, and because they store so well, they are worth the amount of real estate they take up out there. I still have to plant the peas, carrots and some beets. Hopefully that will be done by the week’s end.
