Worth's Octopuses Garden in the Shade. - Page 4

Worth1 · January 27, 2016

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Originally Posted by imp

Doesn't anyone grow the old mean yellow onions? The ones that could make you cry? I liked those best, but everywhere all I see is sweet onions.

I think the mean ones caramelize down better in an iron skillet and are so good. The sweet ones aren't the same.

I like what you are doing, worth, and it should be neat to have fresh ginger and all the other goodies, too.

I will grow the mean onions next year I like them too to make french onion soup.

I just got back from the dry farm in the back and the English peas are starting to come up and the sugar snap peas I planted by the ginger is starting to sprout.
I called it the dry farm because I didn't water anything I planted there.

It looks like the Radicchio both kinds might make a good stand too.

Worth

Worth1 · January 28, 2016

Sugar Snap peas coming up.
Worth
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imp · January 28, 2016

Where are you finding mean yellows???? I might even try to grow onions if I could find them!

Worth1 · January 28, 2016

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Originally Posted by imp

Where are you finding mean yellows???? I might even try to grow onions if I could find them!

You are going to have to order the seeds for short day long keepers to get them unless you get lucky and find some plants.
Way to late to start seeds this year unless you just want green onions.
The other way to get those mean onions is to hit your onion patch with sulfur.
This will guarantee a hot mean onion.

Worth

imp · January 28, 2016

I may try that this fall to over winter the onions. I've never had luck finding onions that are not labeled "sweet".

Thanks for the tip on the sulfur- but how much and when?

Worth1 · January 28, 2016

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Originally Posted by imp

I may try that this fall to over winter the onions. I've never had luck finding onions that are not labeled "sweet".

Thanks for the tip on the sulfur- but how much and when?

I have no idea but any time is fine.

Worth

Worth1 · January 28, 2016

I am looking for short day long keeper onion seeds and so far I have found.
Pumba.
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-7390-pumba.aspx

Worth1 · January 29, 2016

This is the other end of the back side of the house.
My beloved old Boo Boo's old digging area.
I decided I couldn't stand to look at his old holes anymore and put it behind me.
This is all therapy for me to get on with my life as best I can.
I will try to grow sweet potatoes here after I get it cleaned up.
I put the sewer line in so I know where it is at.
Worth
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kath · January 29, 2016

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Originally Posted by Worth1

This is the other end of the back side of the house.
My beloved old Boo Boo's old digging area.
I decided I couldn't stand to look at his old holes anymore and put it behind me.
This is all therapy for me to get on with my life as best I can.
I will try to grow sweet potatoes here after I get it cleaned up.
I put the sewer line in so I know where it is at.
Worth
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That's a great idea, Worth. Will you let the vines run over the grass? Guess you don't have critters that will nibble on the ends. Deer and rabbits both love to snack on the ones that make it outside of our fencing.

kath

Worth1 · January 29, 2016

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Originally Posted by kath

That's a great idea, Worth. Will you let the vines run over the grass? Guess you don't have critters that will nibble on the ends. Deer and rabbits both love to snack on the ones that make it outside of our fencing.

kath

Kath I am almost through with phase one of the project keep in mind I am doing it all by hand no power tools.
Good exercise and helps me keep my girlish figure.

Then I will post pictures and tell what it up.
No grass in the area I dont have grass I want.

Worth

Worth1 · January 29, 2016

Phase one now complete.
But for some reason pictures wont upload.
So for now I will just tell what I did.
The wall you see is the garage wall.
It is 22 feet long and the cut out is 6 feet.
So I made the bed 22X6 and popped a line.

Then I hoed up the area and get rid of the weeds.
An the down hill side of the line I dug into the soil with the hoe cutting a right angle in the soil at the line.
All of this soil was put back where it belonged close to the house.
Where I dug the soil out I made what will become a walkway along the bed.
I heaped all of the extra soil up into the bed made or less level and created a terrace about one foot high.

Worth

AlittleSalt · January 29, 2016

"But for some reason pictures wont upload."

I took two refresh/es to get this page to fully load. I figured it was our slow internet.

Worth1 · January 29, 2016

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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

"But for some reason pictures wont upload."

I took two refresh/es to get this page to fully load. I figured it was our slow internet.

Salt I have done it with my phone with WiFi and tried with 4G nothing is working.
It just says pictuer failed to upload nothing else.

Worth

AlittleSalt · January 29, 2016

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Originally Posted by Worth1

Salt I have done it with my phone with WiFi and tried with 4G nothing is working.
It just says pictuer failed to upload nothing else.

Worth

I just tried to create a thread in Soilbuilding - it wouldn't load the pictures and reset what I had written.

Worth1 · January 29, 2016

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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I just tried to create a thread in Soilbuilding - it wouldn't load the pictures and reset what I had written.

In a way I am glad to here that I thought I had used up my pictuer space.

Worth

January 29, 2016	#56
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Phase one now complete. But for some reason pictures wont upload. So for now I will just tell what I did. The wall you see is the garage wall. It is 22 feet long and the cut out is 6 feet. So I made the bed 22X6 and popped a line. Then I hoed up the area and get rid of the weeds. An the down hill side of the line I dug into the soil with the hoe cutting a right angle in the soil at the line. All of this soil was put back where it belonged close to the house. Where I dug the soil out I made what will become a walkway along the bed. I heaped all of the extra soil up into the bed made or less level and created a terrace about one foot high. Worth Last edited by Worth1; January 29, 2016 at 05:26 PM.

January 28, 2016	#47
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Sugar Snap peas coming up. Worth IMG_20160128_34433.jpg

January 28, 2016	#48
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	Where are you finding mean yellows???? I might even try to grow onions if I could find them!

January 29, 2016	#57
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	"But for some reason pictures wont upload." I took two refresh/es to get this page to fully load. I figured it was our slow internet.