Garden out and doing great

[ericrm2005]

My garden got a bit of a late start due to rain but it is doing good now. I need to take some more pics this week. these two are from May 26th and Jun 6

Looks good. I wish I could have done my usual planting down at the farm this year.

 

[Kep]

Dirt is really clumpy this year due to way to much rain. As of now the rain gauge I keep for CoCoRaHS has all ready recorded 20 inches this year. Normal rainfall for an entire year is about 22 inches or so.

 

[jinman]

Even with our dry spring and early heatwave, I managed a decent onion crop. My sweet wife, knowing how I love green onion tops, cut up most of them and put them into freezer bags. Later, they thaw nicely for cooking, salads, and especially on baked potatoes. They're also terrific for many types of sauces.

Here's a couple of photos of the onions drying. We've already given away over 50 nice baseball sized onions and have all of these. I'll bag them and put them into a cool, dark, and dry place as soon as they have dried on my table. I whipped together the drying table out of a few boards and some chicken wire and put it across two sawhorses. It's under my deck and mostly out of direct sunlight.

 

[Chuck52]

Kep,

Are those wooden towers tomato cages?

Chuck

 

[ericrm2005]

Even with our dry spring and early heatwave, I managed a decent onion crop. My sweet wife, knowing how I love green onion tops, cut up most of them and put them into freezer bags. Later, they thaw nicely for cooking, salads, and especially on baked potatoes. They're also terrific for many types of sauces.

Here's a couple of photos of the onions drying. We've already given away over 50 nice baseball sized onions and have all of these. I'll bag them and put them into a cool, dark, and dry place as soon as they have dried on my table. I whipped together the drying table out of a few boards and some chicken wire and put it across two sawhorses. It's under my deck and mostly out of direct sunlight.

jinman, they look great. i can only hope that my onions turn out that great. i do mine from sets. ive heard that onions started from seed grow much larger and dry/store much better. i am not sure if this is true, but if my onion sets mature like it looks like yours have i wont be dissapointed. last year i barley got any.

 

[Kep]

Kep,

Are those wooden towers tomato cages?

Chuck

Yep, got tied of the wire cages getting crushed

 

[Chuck52]

Well, I don't worry about my CRW tomato cages getting crushed, but your wooden ones sure are nicer looking. I bet they seldom rust.

Chuck

 

[Kep]

Wife likes them a lot, made them out of cedar so they should last a while.

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

I LOVE those tomato cages, awesome dude!!:dance1:

 

[Chuck52]

If I could manage to limit myself to some reasonable number of tomatoes I'd build some of those. Unfortunately I seem to have a need to grow 50 or so. That would get expensive fast.

Chuck