Entry No. 37

I planted Yellow Onions recently.  I went to the Hardware store for a garden hose and came home with a bag of these too.  So, I guess we’re growing Onions this year.  {smile} It’s a little embarrassing for me to admit but, I had to Google how to plant these.  Anyway, I dug a shallow trench by the fence on the other side of the yard for the stinkers.  I hadn’t planned a place in the vegetable garden for them and was finagling with straw, you know and they wound up loners.  They sprouted quickly – another instant gratification grow for me.  A fresh onion.  That’s something interesting to look forward to.  Nothing like a vegetable garden to help us see exactly where some of our food comes from and appreciate the process – and the rewards!

Entry No. 36

I was surprised to find blooms in my Norland Red potato patch today.  These are grown from store-bought Seed Potatoes which, normally, are sterile tubers.  I’ve grown potatoes from tubers like this for five years now, in buckets, in the ground… this is the first flower I’ve seen.  It’s kind of cool actually, because I didn’t have to wait for my True Potato Seedlings to bloom to see a flower.  Now, we’ll have to wait a bit to know if this flower will actually produce a seed pod.  I’d prefer to stick with saving seeds from my True Potato Seeds but it’s a neat experience you know, just to find out what happens.

Entry No. 28

Well, I put more Cucumber seeds in yesterday evening.  Some of them just didn’t come up.  And you know, it wasn’t the seeds… it was a squirrel.  I saw it, digging, and digging and digging.  And, from upstairs in my house looking out the craft room window – it was too late to chase the thing or try.  I figured I’d wait and see what still came up.  Yeah, about a third of my cucumber seeds are seedlings now.  Anyway, I put more in.  I had English Cucumbers too but couldn’t find the old packet to add to the photo.  I save them all and this one – I don’t know.  {smile} So, I can’t tell the difference in the seedlings, even after the second set of leaves.  Well, I can tell the types apart, just not which is English, Pickling, Lemon…  Much like my mystery pumpkin seedlings, I’ll know what’s what this Fall.