Planted 244 onions yesterday and today.
From left to right:
4x20 Red Baron, mulched with chipped juniper, grass clippings
4x16 Stuttgarter Riesen, grass clippings
4x20 Sturon, Wood chips from different old stuff, grass clippings
Did not water when planted, instead hoping for rain
5x Comfrey Bocking 14 planted.
This year I plant in containers and not in the garden since all beds were horrible fails.
6 containers on the balcony: 36 cloves
1 container on the terrace: 16 cloves (mulched with straw and pruned raspberries)
The result. I saved the largest 5 tubers from the top 3 varieties
Harvested the last 3 varieties from the 5 initial ones.
This is 185 days after planting.
Nicola: 299g
Laura: 680g (red ones)
Russet Burbank: 897g
Harvested the Adretta and Blue Congo varieties since they were completely dead after summer and did not survive the drought. The other three are growing back after the heat and I let them in until they die.
Adretta harvest: 463g
Blue Congo harvest: 120g
Most of the tubers are too tiny to peal or eat.
167 days after planting.
Maximilian sunflower short before bloom
Processing Dino kale seeds, let them dry on a table for a few weeks. It’s from plants from 2021. Reach out if you want some! Will put in the marketplace soon
Current state of the potato bed. Two varieties apparently don’t deal well with the dryness. I watered here and there but mostly let them be.
Harvest of many small bulbs. I consider this a fail and I’ll try to plant earlier next year. Maybe in October?
Current size of all 5 varieties
I am growing 3 potatoes of each 5 different varieties in one garden bed.
Root growth as already started!
I used the small bulbs from last years harvest.
Poked holes in the cardboard and added mixed gloves from the three varieties I saved from last year. Covered lightly with compost, covered with half rotten grass clippings.
