Garden Musings

Onion Planting May 4, 2007

Woke up to 44 this morning. Got up to about 70. I managed to leave work at 3:00 and met the pest control guy for our annual bat exclusion checkup.

I got the 150 onion plants planted: Walla Walla, Mars and Copra from Territorial Seed Company. I planted most of them in the new small back bed. I still need to label the rows. According to description, Copra is a 104 day, long storage yellow onion that is high in sugar and particularly good in French onion soup. Walla Walla, is NOT a storage onion. They are meant to be used quickly but they are sweet. Mars, a red onion, can be stored for 4-6 months, is a good raw (or cooked) onion.

The mailman brought a package fro Select Seeds (my two hardy lilies). I unpacked them but did not plant them. The UPS guy dropped off another box from Territorial Seed Company–with two tomatoes and my pepper order. I’m letting the peppers harden off on the front porch. I did plant the two tomatoes in the kitchen bed–Sweet Million and Bambino. AND I put in the towers.

I also managed to finally plant the sweet peas and morning glories. I planted them along the side of the deck and by the clematis trellis’ on the front porch bed and the east side bed.

The pin cherry is blooming. Gorgeous as usual. I really like this tree. You see them along rural roads creating a cloud of white. A sure sign of spring. Since Sunday, most of the trees are showing signs of green leaves and our crab apple is starting to open.