![]() ![]() So we aimed for a six-inch spacing, again with only two rows to the bed. Wondering how far apart to set them out, we recalled Eric and Cher’s onions being six inches in diameter. The next bed received the slender onion plants. I thinly sprinkled the seed about an inch apart, and then gently raked over the rows. The row closest to the garlic patch got Indian Summer spinach seed in it, and the next row was planted in Tyee spinach. I hoed shallow furrows in the first of the beds, which are about 175 feet long. “We’ll never know if we never try,” was the thought that joined with, “you can*t harvest it if you don’t plant it,” and up the hill we went. Seems kind of cold, late and wet to think about planting a garden, I briefly thought to myself, but the hopeful side soon popped up. It’s been a busy year, and before I knew it November arrived. ![]() Soon the bed was full of plants which we kept relatively free of weeds during the fall. I asked Eric to buy extra seed next time, and he brought it over this summer.Īn old carrot bed wasn’t doing anything productive, so we made seven rows in it and planted the small black seeds of the Walla Walla, Sweet Vidalia type onion. In answer to our queries, we learned they had planted seed in August and set out the plants later in the fall. The back of the spinach package recommends fall planting and covering the young seedlings with a protective mulch or plant bed row cover.Įric and Cher blew us away last summer with their huge Walla Walla onions. I’d heard about planting spinach in late fall and letting it over-winter as a small plant. I thought I might mulch these unplanted beds and then pull the mulch back in early spring to get a jump on the spinach and onion crop. Near the garlic beds in the new orchard are a few beds already composted, limed, and ready to plant. Onions also don’t like it hot, so we can hardly get these two planted too early.īut I’m trying. Warm temperatures make the spinach bolt, and as it sends up its flower and seed stalk, it quits putting out leaves. Every year in early spring I’m anxious to get them planted. ![]()
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