Fallin’ Onions
I haven’t had the time due to work to take pictures recently, but the tops fell on all of my onions in the past day or two, so I pulled them last night.
I had planned to preserve them and use them when the tomatoes are ready for salsa in another month or two, but it’s not worth it. The onions were too small, some as small as a quarter. On one hand, it’s disappointing that I didn’t get a good crop. On the other hand, this validates my early theory that the reason I haven’t gotten much of anything out of the garden is that there wasn’t enough nutrients present in the soil … which a soil test could have told me if I’d gone and gotten one. But this is my first year with the raised bed, my first year growing onions, and my first year gardening organic, and I was leery of overdoing it.
Since going organic, I’ve learned a lot about what plants need to look like in their different states, and the rest of my tomatoes and other crops look great right now. I’ve also found sources of fertilizer, garden soil, compost, and mulch that are organic in nature and not made from chemicals. Hopefully I’ll be able to harvest some of my ripening tomato and pepper crops soon!
It’s seasonal, too. That is, with your crazy Texas weather, who knows what you’ll need to do to make things work? At least you have an experimental bent.
The great thing about SFG, so far as I can tell at this stage, is that you can amend the ever-loving poo out of your beds and make them crazy fertile without too much effort. So next spring you might have excellent spring crops, since everything is set up now.
I’m jealous of your pepper crops, Karl! We don’t get to grow any peppers here, and all our tomatoes are cherry in nature. I’ll be looking out for some drool-worthy photos soon.