What did you do in the garden today?

[RenoHuskerDu]

We have roughly 1 dozen set of 2 tires each thought it was 3 but Adult son lives here built a pallet table to put a wading pool we used with zucchini last year up

Multigenerational households have many advantages. It was trendy starting in the 60s to push your kids out to go to useless college brainwashing, or get a job and rent some grimy little apartment. But now people are seeing the benefits of strong young backs helping out around the homestead. God created the family right after the world.

 

[pennyJo1960]

James the son and I bought the house We are in a very quiet small town can leave doors unlocked kind love it that way ....

 

[igorsMistress]

Hubs got the walls on the nursery coop today and hwc across the front. Just have the roof, door and roost left. I'll be out there tomorrow to work on the yard around it. Hubs thinks he'll put big handles on it and we can move it later. I vote no.

The chickens have done a wonderful job of moving dirt in the compost pile. I'll be able to get things moved around out there tomorrow so I can haul some dirt.

All I personally accomplished today was moving the branches I cut off the acacia to the compost pile.

 

[Beer can]

Wth are walking onions? I have enough trouble taking care of normal veggies. I sure as hell am not going to be chasing them down if they decide to go on a walk about!

Lol, they are actually pretty neat and easy to grow and perennial. I mentioned on BYC I've always wanted them and BAM! a member sent me a bundle of actual plants! 28 or so of them. If you buy them from seed catalogs you can only get the top set onions and they I guess take a extra yr to get good production and they only ship them in the fall. Cost about a dollar a little bulb from what I can find, or around $13 for one ounce which is probably the same. Those plants I got with the bottom bulbs grew bonkers.
You can use the bottom bulbs, small onions about the size of shallots, plenty of green onions you can cut anytime without hurting them , then the top set onions about the size of pearl onions. And if you don't pick them the first set of top sets each four to six, seven on each top will all sprout and grow up another foot or so and top set again, and they all are good even the middle one's. When they grow like that they bend over and replant themselves (walking) I picked mine and replanted them myself. Perpetual onions a lot easier to grow than regular one's. They'll last decades.

My first top sets I replanted

 

[pennyJo1960]

Love those walking onions huh need to look into those

 

[Beer can]

I've thought about raising regular onions but I go through so many of them I don't have the room.

Growing some sure does help. Room as in garden room or storage? There is a couple that last months just in our back room. Mass? long day onions store very well. I ordered (with a couple other people, more you order cheaper) a bundle of copra, red wing and one I've never tried ailisa craig. Dixondale Farms, best place to order onions.
The ailisa craig's I ordered just to try to see how giant they I can get them, they don't store well though..... Think I'm going to try dehydrating them.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Lol, they are actually pretty neat and easy to grow and perennial. I mentioned on BYC I've always wanted them and BAM! a member sent me a bundle of actual plants! 28 or so of them. If you buy them from seed catalogs you can only get the top set onions and they I guess take a extra yr to get good production and they only ship them in the fall. Cost about a dollar a little bulb from what I can find, or around $13 for one ounce which is probably the same. Those plants I got with the bottom bulbs grew bonkers.
You can use the bottom bulbs, small onions about the size of shallots, plenty of green onions you can cut anytime without hurting them , then the top set onions about the size of pearl onions. And if you don't pick them the first set of top sets each four to six, seven on each top will all sprout and grow up another foot or so and top set again, and they all are good even the middle one's. When they grow like that they bend over and replant themselves (walking) I picked mine and replanted them myself. Perpetual onions a lot easier to grow than regular one's. They'll last decades.

My first top sets I replanted
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So cool...I had never heard of them. I learn something new every day.

 

[pennyJo1960]

See I use more small ones think I will stay with the year after year walla walla sweets plant 100 pull them young

 

[Beer can]

I grew multiplier potato onions two yrs ago, plant one get many, under the ground.
I accidentally forgot to replant them last yr, just kept saying maybe tomorrow and then forgot. I still have a half a lunch size paper bag of them in our cupboard room temp since fall of 2017. They look just fine! Going to plant them this spring, pretty sure they will grow they look about as good as when I put them there, if they do they have to be the longest storage onions ever.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We grow in the tires not so easy to miss ... the son is realizing as long as I cook he likes about any veggie