what you gonna grow for this season part 2

[Intrinsic]

Thanks man! I just notice some at the Feed and Seed today. next time I go back in town I'm going to get packets of the red and white onions

[Lrus007]

You can buy bags of 100 onion sets for under $4. Sets are way easier to do than seeds.

yes always have. but did a lot of reading about onions.
also about gardening here. friend gave me a good book.
gardening north of the cascades. ok onion sets are a 2 year
onion. from a seed is a 1 year onion. 1 year are less likely to
bolt/go to seed. book says to never buy sets to plant seeds.
then let biggest one go to seed for the next years seed. after
that can let any one of them go to seed for the next years seed.
then storage a 1st year onion will last longer than a 2 year onion.
i got a lot last year and did not keep very well. i have picked a good
storage onion south port red. i had also looked for that kind in sets.
did not find any. so i was left with only seed for that kind.
my brother will buy sets and i will plant a few of them.
but i love to grow things so giving this a try.

[Lrus007]

was sunny off and on today. i dug up a spot for the sunflowers.
is early but got it nice and fluffed up. then my 55 gal plastic
drums. hard freeze made them a little oval not quite round now.
well i did not cover over winter. bro never got around to doing
some cutting for me. will have them covered next winter. since
they were not covered had sunk about a foot in each one. grabbed
my wheel borrow, scoop and 4 tine rake. i wanted to add sand to
these 2 barrels anyway. put a few scoops of other soil in wheel
borrow. then dug about a foot deep into barrel. then i added lime,
scoop of rabbit shit, trace elements, ironite, 3 scoops of peat moss.
then raked and scooped till was well mixed. scooped back into barrel.
was close diid not have much left over. then i did the same for 2nd
barrel. they are topped off now. will cover 1 and plant carrots in other.
just for reference. my scoop is a metal 1 gal grain scoop i have sharpened
leading edge on. works better than shovel on raised beds and my barrels.
i plan on planting carrots and my potatos tomorrow. moon chart says is a
good day to plant root veg's. then weather goes back to rain for week or two.

[Lrus007]

planted carrots and potatos today.
also sprayed some weed killer around.

[Lrus007]

well did not water anything in. we have several days of rain
on the way. then potato's and carrots will be watered in.
the parsley i split is doing well after transplant. 2 weeks or
so i think i can get them used to the sun and outside. then plant.

my peppers are taking there time. still alive lol is 2 in 1 of the pots.
the one with 2 in it i will try outside. the single inside.

then trying to weed between garlic today. winged weeder is a bit to
large to get really close.so dug into silverware drawer and picked a
heavy duty fork. clamped into vice and with a ball peen hammer bent
the fork on the wide part of fork. did not want handle to be weak.

tried it out and worked better than i thought it would. grass and roots
stuck to the tines. i just had to pull them off of the fork.

[Lrus007]

walk out to check mail look over at carrot barrel.
big hole in center my bro's outside cats got me.
is 3 1/2 barrels i just fluffed up right by the full size
barrel. makes no sense. grabbed some more seed and
replanted dug up part. then grabbed some 1" wire from
greenhouse i use to cover things in there from the cats.
then 2 bricks to set on top. put wire on and noticed my
hand was bleeding wire had got me. so put wire and
bricks on top. then came in and tended to my hand.

[Intrinsic]

I can relate I've been gopherproofing my raised beds with chicken wire. -Yay a little bleeding comes along with the scenery-

[Lrus007]

got more onion seed today. planted up 2 pots.
1 will go into dome with heat mat other one will go
into greenhouse. i have 1 in dome already. when i get
sprouts it is going right to greenhouse.

[Intrinsic]

Well I sowed tomato and some more pepper seeds.
Peppers: yellow and red bells & Peru chili.
Tomato: beef steak, cherokee purple & mule team

Right now it's snowing hard, inch accumulation, the trees are sagging, buttoned down the orangery...
It's freezing and I just planted seeds. Lrus you're right, it's like that kind of year

[Lrus007]

looked at planting times yesterday. noticed i could plant
beets. so i planted some in my raised bed. also did a row
with last of onion seeds. short rows across bin. marked with
string the 2 rows. then fluffed up soil in rest of bin. then with
damn cats in mind. i made 2 fake rows and marked with string.
well today 1 of the fake rows was dug up. glad i thought of that.