Thread: In the Garden 2016

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

It will be fun to see how they come out down the road a couple of years, you think I can sweeten them up by burying some Reese's pieces in the ground with them? I bet they cut just fine with my knife edges too! Tc

Tc I should just email you as 99% of all that read what follows won't believe me but it's true:

Walla Walla Sweets have less sugar in them then an average 'HOT' yellow cooking onion!! They are (at least grown here in our little valley) 90% Water. They are NOT a good Cooking Onion! They are best used RAW

The high water content, the Variety that they are, PLUS the soil and other growing conditions are what make them so SWEET!

Keep those Reese's Pieces for the Trick or Treater's

Originally Posted by gssixgun

HA !!!! That explains it,, the ones we grew last year from the seeds you sent were pretty strong, I thought maybe I messed up somehow, and that they were rather small because of the short season maybe they didn't get the "Sweetness"
Shan and I loved them as we like strong Onions and Garlic and we seem to grow both here...

IF you would have planted those seeds in the time frame that I'd told you to, they should have wintered over and you would have had LARGER onions I also had told you that soil and other growing conditions would determine how they taste.

With the transplants from a heritage WW grower that I sent you and you now have in hand it will be interesting to see how those do as far as size and sweetness goes.

As I've said via email I'll tell you how to get your seeds to plant This Year so that you can have some Sand Point Boonies Sweets Next Year.

Happy Gardening!

Originally Posted by cudarunner

I'll go with Oil Patch Sweets >>>>> snip

Opie Sweets

They were very good raw, we had them in salads and on burgers, and myself I had a sand which with WW onion and cucumber and mayo. Yum. Yum. Tc

They are great in the Trinity mentioned in another thread today. A bunch of little early ones bake so sweet.

Originally Posted by ProudMarineDad

This is educational on what I am talking about.

I made it to 14:20. He is basically raising his crops in mulch. Even then he mentions in clay it is necessary to "Fork" or in my mind till.

Look up straw bale gardening.

In the clay soil I grew up with raising potatoes under a layer of straw and on top of the ground is a good way to go.

Here is another extreme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIN2R1iksog

No pictures since it is dark now, but I now have tomatoes, peppers, and herbs in the ground! I am trying a different strain of tomatoes, the Mortgage Lifter. I also planted Serrano peppers this year in addition to the standby jalapeños and pablanos because my wife wants to try to make food that is completely inedible to me
I planted chocolate mint this year against my better judgement because I went to the feed store with my daughter and she really wanted it. I did quarantine it so it doesn't completely take over though...
Looking forward to seeing how it all works out this year!

Sporting is coming along well. We have peas and spinach in the ground.

Ernie1980 No pictures since it is dark now, but I now have tomatoes, peppers, and herbs in the ground!


And I am watching it snow.

Oh yeah getting in some good work today

Popped a couple more stumps outta the ground over in the ever growing 1/4 acre Seems like every time I go out there with the Tractor I say to myself if I pop that stump out right there I can get another row in here



Funny how when you are running the saws, you think you are really doing some good, trimming up the tress and cutting the deadfall, then you have to go pick up all that stuff and load it



We have a burn pile sitting out there now, maybe that will warm up the ground enough hehehe going to fire that up over the next couple of days then turn the ground again with the plow.. Hoping the wind drops out as the sun goes down so we can have a nice Bonfire out there tonight, We have rain coming on Monday, so hopefully we can get it burned down before then ...

In that new section we are going with 2 rows of corn 2 rows of her Pumpkins and 2 rows of the Walla Walla Sweets from Roy total experiment over there...


The actual garden in fully tilled now, figures I broke a Tiller wheel yesterday so of course I had to find a new one that fit, lucked out and found some with steel hubs so it was smooth sailing for the final run today...




Ready to get every thing planted, as soon as it warms up a bit more and I get the fences up, now comes the waiting/timing game..