A New Season (But Blogged Late)

Actually, I began gardening back in January when I tried planting some onion seeds. And I resolved to post to the blog...and didn't.

The onion seeds did not work nearly was well as I hoped. I got plants in only about 1/3 of the pots, and since I put several seeds in each pot, the germination rate was a lot lower than that. I'll have to reconsider this for next year.

The result: I have about 20 onions from seed and the rest---30-40---from sets, like I've done before.

On the other hand, the garlic looks great. I've planted both garlic and onions much closer than before, and this seem to be just fine (we'll see come June and July, of course).

And the kholrabi and kale I left to overwinter? They bolted before producing anything worthwhile. That's another failed experiment.

On the positive side, I put in three currant bushes and they seem to have been established. And the fig and grape survived the winter, too.

I think those are going to be bunches of grapes!