When I get to Stone’s Throw Farm each morning, I first turn on the water and check the plants in the hoophouse to see which are thirsty. If it’s sunny, I roll up the sides of the hoophouse for ventilation. I have this extremely scientific method of deciding what needs to be done next. It goes something like this: “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe . . . .” It seems there are a few dozen tasks I have fallen a bit behind on, and there’s nothing to do but tackle them, one by one!
Yesterday I finished transplanting the onions. Since a farmer friend of mine asked me on April 23rd if the onions were in the ground yet, you could say I’m a little behind on that. But we’ll still eat onions this summer. Here’s how I learned to transplant onions: take them out of their trays, shake the soil off the roots to separate the plants from each other, trim the roots, and push each onion root into the ground and push soil up against the roots.
The last photo shows some of the transplanted onions (in the bed to the right of the white row cover). I filled a whole bed with them. Now, on to the leeks!
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