Potato onions. As usual never really having the time to do anything properly and beings so busy doing stuff my seed grown potato onions are now sitting in 7 crates waiting to be planted out. Considering that i probably had over 2000 seeds of 28 different provenances the outcome so far is really bad.

But sometimes i take comfort in telling myself that the useless gardener by extreme neglect provides a sort of selection for the toughest material.

These crates are made of polystyrene a very toxic material that i despise, but i can pick them up for free in a supermarket because the fish is transported in them and they will throw them away and they will be burnt in the incinerator anyway so i figure that i am giving them a second life before i will take them to the dump and then they will be sent to get burnt. Hopefully one day we as a human species won't use these horrible toxic materials anymore.


 Potato onions. I have about 10 different varieties that i got this year in very small numbers so i decided to grow them in metal barrels for maximum protection against rodents. I already lost 2 or 3 varieties in storage.

 My salad onion is starting to send up flower stalks. It is surrounded by irish potato onions and there is two green mountain PO's on the left that will flower too. My idea is to cross this huge salad onion with potato onions to get a new larger potato onion


variety. 






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