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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Planted onions sets (no idea what kind - but yellowish) purchased at 
Walmart.... they are all harvested now, but they were on the small side.  
They taste good, and I have lots of them, but I was disappointed in the size 
at harvest.
 
During the winter I started yellow onion seeds inside, moved them outside 
when the frosty nights stopped, and transplanted them.  Those are close to 
harvest size now as the first couple of tops in the group are leaning over. 
The onions are huge 4" plus in diameter.  Meanwhile about a month or so ago I 
started more seeds in the pots to make my own onion sets, some red some 
yellow, for next spring.  
 
I'm shocked at the size of the sunflowers in one of the gardens.  Over 8' 
tall.  I know it says that on the package.... but seeing them grow that tall 
so fast is just something else.  The flowers are opening up and I can't wait 
to find out firsthand how the seeds mature :-)
 
I harvested my first eggplant yesterday and turned it into grilled eggplant 
teriyaki. Yum.
 
About a month ago I was thinking that I planted the plants too far apart.... 
this week I can barely walk thru the garden.  
 
I'm done canning green beans - what a (rewarding) chore that was!  I still 
have beans to pick every day; Mom wants frozen green beans so I'm freezing 
the extras every day for her.  
 
The melon patches, and various summer & winter squash patches are even more 
out of control.....
 
I dug up about 20# of potatoes the other day, much to my surprise.  It seems 
like the worst looking the plant gets the more little new stalons it puts 
out.  The weirdest behaving potato plants are the ones in the tires.... they 
flowered a couple months ago, and stayed green, and are flowering again.  Who 
knows what is going on down inside.... I guess I'll have to dig down and find 
out....
 
Having fun in the garden..........
 

--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:





For the second year I bough Granex and some red onion plants at the feed
store and they all went to seed. I'm using them for green onions. I think
that they are short day. I need lond day or neutral.

I have planted Candy, a hybrid day neutral every year and it always makes
great onions. I got them in late this year, early April and they did fine.
Next year I plant the seeds on New Years day to have seedings ready to plant
out in March.

I planted the Elisa Craig (sp) and they have done real well also. This is
the first year on them.

I'm not sure what the sets are but they got planted in early March and have
done nothing. I'll eat them green.

Rob - Va
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Sounds like you've had a really good first year there, Leslie. When you
first joined and said it was your first time to grow a lot of this, I
wondered what would happen. Sounds like you have a green thumb (good
skills). Glad to hear stuff is growing for you.

I'm about sold on only planting onions from seed if I can. I never seem to
get good onions from sets and locally never know what type of onion I'm
buying from sets.


Rob - Va

>

> Planted onions sets (no idea what kind - but yellowish) purchased at
> Walmart.... they are all harvested now, but they were on the small side.
> They taste good, and I have lots of them, but I was disappointed in the size
> at harvest.
>
> During the winter I started yellow onion seeds inside, moved them outside
> when the frosty nights stopped, and transplanted them.  Those are close to
> harvest size now as the first couple of tops in the group are leaning over.
> The onions are huge 4" plus in diameter.  Meanwhile about a month or so ago
> I started more seeds in the pots to make my own onion sets, some red some
> yellow, for next spring.
>