I have grown these winter onions for over thirty years and they don't mind snow or wind or rain or anything the Autumn, Winter and Spring throws at them.
Regular readers will remember that we froze a lot of our Winter onions. The ones in the cardboard box we put them on a shelf in the dwelling where we live and the room that I chit my seed potatoes.
Regular readers will remember that we froze a lot of our Winter onions. The ones in the cardboard box we put them on a shelf in the dwelling where we live and the room that I chit my seed potatoes.
It must be the heat of the room that seems to have made the onions come to life and decided to sprout and grow stems and stalks?
The onions made me think of a Dylan Thomas poem. He writes about an invisible green force.
What is that makes a seed germinate or a bulb or flower to sprout? Mother Nature's magic touch perhaps?
My Japanese onions are showing as well, they are in my raised bed, and hopefully will give me a good crop next year. My broad beans are not yet showing, but I'm cool with that, they will grow when they are ready.
ReplyDeleteHi Poppypatchwork. It is great to see vegetables growing at this time of year. They are usually ready to harvest in June. We pick them from spring onwards. I must source some Broad Bean seeds. Compost and seeds disappear from shop shelves from now until March. I will also sow more lettuce for me and the rabbits.
ReplyDeleteWe don't grow onions as I can't eat them any more. I just keep a bag of frozen chopped onions in the freezer for stews occasionally.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pity JayCee. Alliums are the best thing going for colds and lowering high blood pressure. We have a chest freezer full of chopped onions in individual freezer bags.
DeleteI shall think of your onions while I am grubbing gorse off my new plot in a couple of weeks. I could do with a goat or two to eat the gorse.
ReplyDeleteExtractigator even TM? Google them or look on You Tube. They are all the rage in NZ for removing Colonial Gorse.
ReplyDeleteHe recites that poem like a song or a chant - so deeply felt are those words... but why-oh-why did he shake off all traces of his Welsh accent? My East Yorkshire accent will be an integral part of me until the day I die.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree YP. I would love to watch the news read by someone with a Liverpool or Geordie accent. Not by someone with plums in their mouth. DT was very talented but he also had his demons like drink. I watched the biopic Back To Black about Amy Winehouse. She also had her demons. A lovely lady who's life was cut short so very young.
ReplyDeleteSo many gifted people died at the age of 27 like Amy. And Dylan Thomas was only 39 when his self-destruction succeeded.
DeleteThere are so many flawed geniuses. It seems there is a price for fame.
DeleteIt's so much better to hear a poem read by the poet. He uses so much emotion.
ReplyDeleteI agree Linda. The green fuse that drives the flower intrigues me. What is it that makes a seed germinate and grow?
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