Three things happened in the garden this past weekend:
#1 Event, I harvested 46 onions.
This are big onions- both red and yellow. Everything about them looks wonderful.
Okay, except for the fact that I probably harvested them a little early. But, that’s okay. Right now they are sitting on the side of my house, drying out like a hobo on Mother’s Day.
I’ve still got a few more in the ground.
Here they are again. Look at these beauties! Click this picture for a larger version- then make that your computer background!
These are full-sized onions. The reds in this picture might be a little small, but most of them are big-uns.
Now I’m trying to find some recipes that use a lot of onions. I’m going to be making middle eastern and Indian dishes. My wife will be making French onion soup.
#2 Event: I started my guerrilla garden.
Next to my house is an empty lot. You may remember this lot from my previous attempts at fighting mosquitos.
Now the pond has dried up, the weeds have been mowed, and it’s like an empty canvas. So I planted pumpkins
This is also the empty lot where I get to dump all of my bad clay soil.
I planted pumpkins here because they take up so much room. I ended up dumping about 2 cubic feet of soil per mound, and planting 3 pumkin seeds on each. Evidently pumpkins also need a lot of water. This is the last year that our city gets un-metered water, so if I’m going to waste water irrigating an empty lot with pumpkins…this is the year for it. We’ll see what happens.
I also planted sunflowers in two rows to the left. I might as well try to make things a bit prettier at the same time.
#3 Event: My yard is inundated with Noseeums.
I’d take a picture of them…but you can’t see them.
Really, my yard is infested right now. Nothing we can do about it. Here is a picture of part of my leg. I know that the hair is far more disturbing than the actual noseeum bites, and that is part of the reason I posted this.
If you think seeing this is bad- my neighbors had to see me standing on the front porch in my underwear, while I tried to take a picture of the back of my leg. HAWT.
Oh, and don’t forget to click on this picture for a larger version. Double-HAWT.
What you do see though, is 11 noseeum bites. Those are only 11 of at least 66 (I think they come in 11’s) bites ON ONE LEG.
Gardening will slow down for a while, until these things are gone. The bad part is that I still haven’t finished my irrigation system upgrade- so I put on my hazmat suit every few days to go out and water.
Upcoming events: My corn is sprouting. Soon I’ll start counting how many seeds germinate. FUN! (Really..it is fun. And if you read this blog, you probably agree. I planted 45 seeds- how many will come up?!?!)
Nice lookin’ FUNYUNS. Did I mention that I have a commercial deep fryer AND a kegerator in the garage? Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Your onions + beer + deep fryer = ONION RINGS!
Followed by… More beer!
Bout a week away from the onion harvest myself. The stalks are FAT — but I’m not showing the shoulders that you had popping out of the soil so color me concerned…
Bill
Oh my, you made me laugh!
I’ve never had any success with onions…for some reason I thought they were a “grow-em-all-summer-harvest-in-fall” sort of crop. I haven’t tried in 3 or 4 years but maybe you’ve inspired me.
HAWT=snort!
Wow! Those looks like painful bites. You have inspired me to begin planting onions again though.
Haven’t heard from you in awhile my friend. I hope things are OK on your end…
UM…well into October now…did you take any more pictures of your garden…I wanna see harvest stuff…
Also, are you going to garden through the winter…blog followers want to know!!!