Flowering Onions

Onions are biennial plants, which means the first year they make bulbs (which you typically eat). If you don’t harvest onions the first year, they will come back the second year and...
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Signs of Spring

Before the weekend, we still had 6″ of snow covering the ground. It’s amazing how fast things change this time of year! Of course, CBS says that we may see 3-5″ of...
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Carrots & Onions

We’ve spent much of the weekend outside, working on cleaning up the yard and garden before it snows. I finally picked all of the carrots and onions, and they are stored for...
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Potatoes

Now that it’s November, we’ve actually been gardening. Actually, Chris dug up his potatoes the other week, and they are stored for the winter in our crawl space under the steps/pantry. There...
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Root Crops

Flowering Onion (click for a close-up) We’ve never had much luck growing onions or other root crops. In Morris, our soil was too heavy, and root crops were leafy at best. We...
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