Onions journals
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Onion 'Walla Walla Sweet' Growing
24
Apr
2013
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Haze 9°C / 48°FMy onions and green onions are doing pretty good. I just saw the first noticable growth yesterday. They are getting little fresh shoots of green up through the top. Woot!
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Onion 'Walla Walla Sweet' , brussels sprouts Growing, and Broccoli Growing
21
Apr
2013
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Clear 11°C / 52°FOnions aren’t sprouting or showing much change yet. No sprouts. I know I’m expecting them too early, but I guess I’m hoping we have miracle soil or something. The broccoli and brussels sprouts look very good and seem to have a little new growth but I didn’t get a pictur...
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18
Mar
2013
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Onion sets 'Sturon' put in allotment
Partly Sunny 6°C / 43°FThis afternoon I spent a couple of hours working on Gerry’s allotment where I prepared a bed for his Onions. He bought some Onion sets ‘Sturon’ to put in his allotment. So I planted them for him. He still has another bag of Onion sets but they are two different varieties, one wa...
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Onion "Walla Walla" and Sunflower "Mammoth Russian"
11 Mar 2013
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I know I’ve been wanting spring lately, but two days of rain is a bit damp. I know, I can’t have it all my way. The snow has taken a butt-kicking, which is good for the gardener in me. All our recently started seeds have done pretty well, with the exception of our Walla Walla onions, ...Light Rain 2°C / 36°F -
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Feb
2013
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Who else in Zone 5 is starting seeds?
Seed starting 2013 gardenI did my first seed starting of the season today— celery, leeks and onions. We haven’t had much of a winter in Chicago this year— wildly fluctuating temps, and almost no snow. Yesterday was the first snow near the lakefront that measured more than an inch. We have some actual wi...Mostly Cloudy -6°C / 21°F -
Greenhouse garden , Chilli Jalapeno 'Summer Heat' Harvesting, Chilli Pepper, De Cayenne Harvesting, Pepper...
15 Oct 2012
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Mostly Cloudy 11°C / 52°FCleared onions from bed 5 and put to dry in greenhouse. As DSs are going to be finishing off the greenhouse interior soon – cementing, soil importation and erecting of bench and shelves – I’ve stripped many pepper plants of fruit so that there is just the one row on the west s...
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12
Sep
2012
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Have you had a good growing season?
Gerry & Dave's allotment gardenPartly Sunny 18°C / 64°FHave you had a good growing season? Blackberries 10/10: We’ve picked some Blackberries but there are 1,000s more on the bush at the top of Gerry’s allotment! Gooseberries 0/10 – not one (off of about 12 bushes!), the few I saw were very green but as Gerry said “The birds g...
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01
Jun
2012
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Onion "Alisa Craig" transplanted
Bunching onion 'Ishikuro' Planting Out, Onion 'Alisa craig' Planting Out, and Plot 12A gardenPartly Sunny 15°C / 59°FThe few seedlings of my Onion “Alisa Craig” that survived in the greenhouse on Gerry’s plot were transplanted to my own allotment, Plot 12A. As they were very few I planted them alongside the Spring Onions ‘Ishikura’ of which I had only a few too. They were planted a...
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Onion 'Superstar' Harvesting, Onion 'Candy' Harvesting, Main garden , Onion 'Red Candy' Harvesting, and Oni...
01 Aug 2012
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Storms 34°C / 93°FThe Yellow Candy and the White Superstar onions are ready for harvest. The Candy onions are my favorite, and did the best this year. The White Superstars did pretty well too, although not all of them made it to maturity. I started with 22 and ended up with 17. The first two pics are Candy and Sup...
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04
May
2012
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Blueberries PH is down, but that's a good thing
PEPPER: California Wonder (Heirloom) Transplanted, PEPPER: Early Jalapeno (Heirloom) Transplanted, and PEPP...Ever since getting my blueberries and getting them in their containers with soil I was concerned about the high PH. Despite the addition of the soil sulfur, which I know is supposed to be slow acting, but it just didn’t seem to be dropping after weeks and even a couple of months. I can now ...Cloudy 22°C / 72°F -
29 Apr 2012
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Tapping into the REAL Inner Farmchick
Today, I think, was the first day I’ve felt like I’m actually on my way to being my own farm chick instead of a wandering pretender who reads a lot of books and kills a lot of plants. Don’t get me wrong — I’m still batting about fifty-fifty on the dead plant thing, t...Cloudy 20°C / 68°F -
Onion 'Dutch' and Onion, Multiplier
05
Apr
2012
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Cloudy 9°C / 48°FOne of the things I like about living in the country, is the bulk seeds sold at the feed store. There are baskets full of onion sets, pea seeds, bean seeds, grass seed, and there are more bags in the back: buckwheat, annual ryegrass, all the cover crops you could imagine, all sold by the pound. T...
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Egg Carton Nursery garden , Onion - Annual Bunching Sprouting, Onion - Annual Bunching , and Egg Carton Nur...
17
Feb
2012
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The onions are also sprouting in their egg cartons. Looking nice and healthy so far, although the soil from the garden I used is looking mouldy on top. It doesn’t seem to be affecting the onions any, so I will leave it be.Rainy 5°C / 41°F -
Backyard Vegetable garden
16
Feb
2012
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Cloudy 11°C / 52°F
I started my seeds (3 trays of 24) tonight to try to match my last frost date more closely this season. Last season I was very aggressive and the early transplanting may have stunted the plants, so we’ll see how things fair this year.
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30
Jan
2012
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Evergreen Bunching Onions, moving
Onion, Evergreen Bunching and indoor gardenMoved the 4 blocks of Evergreen bunching onions off the heat-mat on the top shelf to the lower unheated bottom shelf of lights. Making room for new sowings!Snow 0°C / 32°F
