I have two varieties of onions but no walla wallas....I'll check the farm store next time I pick up some straw and see if they have any. I mulch with lawn clippings and chicken pen straw so everything is ok. Corvalis is a mecca for seeds and seedlings with the Agricultural program at the university there. The old timers around my neighborhood all tell me to get my starters from there and I got some fruit trees that are the best in my orchard. Check online and you may find some bulbs there. Now I'm eating chives which are thriving along my garden fence line and parsley that is growing wild around my compost bins
Found onion sets online. In the past, the results of buying onion sets out of my area has been below average Guess I'll roll the dice, and hope for the best. Thanks for the tip.
Suprise,,,, Woke up to 1/2" of snow. No idea yet how much we lost. Probably the orchard fruit trees that were in bloom. The 10'x20' greenhouse is packed with veggies. From the house, I can see the roof is covered in snow. Very difficult gardening year so far.
Lost about half of the tomato plants, which is ok, I always plant too many. Top half of each jostaberry plant are froozen dead, hope the live parts hang on. Won't know for a couple of days on the fruit trees, and blueberrys. But they look ok. Strange, but the strawberry patch never looked better, and is in full bloom.
It's official, my gardening season is a disaster. This spring has been much colder than normal. Our electric company keeps track of daily temps. The average daily temp in May was 9 degrees colder than 2023. I have lost a lot of veggys. The nights this week got down to near freezing. Last night, it froze. Not much left. This is after a harsh cold winter that wiped out 90% of my orchard crop. Killing over half of the trees, maybe more. Not sure about the fruit trees with only 10-20 very small leaves? They may come back next year. Keep hearing about record heat. We are having a long stretch of record cold.
For the last 8 years, I have lived, and gardened, in north central Idaho. Yes there is still time to replant. But, I was getting ready to have fun, not do more chores I am more concerned about losing so many good healthy fruit trees. And all of my blueberry plants, but one. At least the strawberry patch survived.
Not exactly vegetable garden, but a fruit tree update, I thought they are kind of in the same "category". I built a big concrete planter last week (well, I built a mold and cast a planter in it) - it was an experimental one (trying different materials for the mold building) - but it came out ok (learned a lot from it, both good and bad), and once I managed to flip it over and clear it from all the sand I used for the cavity, I moved that 360 lbs monster to the deck and we went to look for a dwarf fruit tree we could put in it. Given that it is San Diego county, it is warm and there is lots of sun, decided we wanted a dwarf fig tree (good with sun, do not need tons of water once established). Apparently, there is a type called "Little Miss Figgy", unfortunately, the nursery did not have one so we had to settle for a different kind of fig tree, but that's the new addition to our fruit trees - surprisingly, already starting to show figs. All our other trees (apples, lemons, avocados) are not grown in a container, so it will be interesting to see how this works. FWIW, this tree stands next to our little herb container we have on the deck which currently has mint, basil, cilantro and parsley in it.
Strawberrys are like weeds. Sorry to hear about your blues. They're the best. Weather patterns have been strange. Just snowed 8 inches on Hood. Forcecast for Portland tomorrow is 89.
The weird weather will continue and almost certainly only get worse. I would have thought with all the extra CO2 in the air all plants would be doing incredible...
I know. That's what I'm saying. You wouldn't think Syria would have been plunged into a civil war due to the inability to grow crops driving thousands of farmers off their baren land with all this extra CO2 we've got. It should be getting easier every year, right? It's just crazy...
My wife went out to our garden the other day and something had helped itself to all of her lettuce. She was not happy. It was eaten down to the ground.
