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Onion Planting

11/26/2014

I spent most of the day planting onions, it's that time of year and today was a nice day for planting. I've saved a few bunches of onions for the community garden folks. My plan is to be at the garden Saturday morning around 11 am and you may get onions then. It's supposed to be a pretty day Saturday so we'll plant onions. Whatever onions I have left I'll bring back home to plant.
Plant the onions about 4-6" centers. Poke a hole and stick the transplants in about 2".
In the spring we'll start fertilizing the plants to make the plants grow and grow onion bulbs.
And if I still owe anyone money for the Black Kow, I'll bring funds.
See you Saturday.

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Onions

11/21/2014

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Winter has come early and hard but we have one more task to complete. Today the UPS man dropped off the onion transplants and I'll bring them to the market tomorrow. Spread the word. A bunch is about 75 plants and the cost is $4.50. If you can't make it to the market tomorrow, I'll bring them by the garden next Saturday.

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Hard Freeze

11/6/2014

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Sadly the last of our summers crops were killed off by the 28 degree temperature Monday morning. The freeze was widespread as even the student's garden at Kedron froze. Although I haven't been by the community garden to check the status, I expect similar results.
Now it's time to clean up the plant material from the plants that died. I will mow then till all that organic matter into the soil and plant a cover crop of vetch for the winter. Although the soils are getting cool, the vetch will germinate and slowly grow and really take off in the spring. At the community garden I encourage you to plant crimson clover as your cover crop. It is much easier to work with next spring. The clover seeds are in the garden shed.
In the meantime I'm getting production of snow peas and broccoli. The cauliflower is taking it's good ole time maturing but the plants appear to be slowly making heads. I planted a few green headed cauliflower plants and we actually had the first one of those last week. Today I saw another small green cauliflower head ready to eat.
We've been dry...too dry. In order to insure good head production on your broccoli and cauliflower be sure to keep the plants well watered. The cold dry winds really stress our plants so keep your remaining crops well watered.
I am expecting the onion transplants in 2 weeks.

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