tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post3401167180127187322..comments2023-12-23T08:37:09.133+00:00Comments on LOOSE AND LEAFY IN HALIFAX: ONIONSLucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-74100108251835277732018-01-16T19:51:32.796+00:002018-01-16T19:51:32.796+00:00Mmmmm - looks as if your onions are having fun Luc...Mmmmm - looks as if your onions are having fun Lucy. It's funny how what you plant rarely stays just where you put it. I've only ever grown onions once but plant shallots in the spring most years. Good luck with keeping rats out of your compost heap. I've got rid of our heap at home. There is an area of uncultivated land (not ours) with a stream running through it behind our house and rats became a problem we could do without.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10794392333038962798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-55967960494642667172018-01-16T11:33:33.733+00:002018-01-16T11:33:33.733+00:00Hi Lucy, It's a mystery which creatures skulk...Hi Lucy, It's a mystery which creatures skulk about at night exploring the plots. I remind myself that the animals that visit are behaving in ways that existed long before we cultivated the land. Once plants are growing strongly, I find less disturbance - I get foxes, pigeons and cats disturbing the beds here. I pick up any old freezer baskets or Ikea wardrobe baskets that have been discarded and use those to cover seeds or bulbs until they're more established - they won't keep mice out but work well otherwise! If you've got badgers, there's not a lot that will keep them out - My parents regularly had their metal dustbin turned over by a badger looking for food scraps! Carohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11317388242574705433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-58916366847736652992018-01-15T15:54:06.370+00:002018-01-15T15:54:06.370+00:00Hello Stewart. A possum-proof pod sounds interesti...Hello Stewart. A possum-proof pod sounds interesting but I'd like a badger-proof plot!Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-49105264885415015342018-01-15T15:52:33.677+00:002018-01-15T15:52:33.677+00:00Hello Kenneth. I'm not sure if I will be able ...Hello Kenneth. I'm not sure if I will be able to grow tomatoes because I don't (yet) have a greenhouse. But nothing tastes better than a tomato picked in the sun and eaten straight from the vine.Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-80644293723217006802018-01-15T15:50:52.480+00:002018-01-15T15:50:52.480+00:00Hello Candi. I'm wondering if I should worry a...Hello Candi. I'm wondering if I should worry about frost. Not that I can do anything about it. But the onions seem to have survived snow . . . fingers crossed.Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-42491136041846205972018-01-15T15:49:23.167+00:002018-01-15T15:49:23.167+00:00Hello Diana. Although I would like to send you som...Hello Diana. Although I would like to send you some rain I would do so reluctantly because I'm rather enjoying it here! (And tomorrow it may even turn to snow!)Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-79744286017151846182018-01-15T06:15:20.553+00:002018-01-15T06:15:20.553+00:00We are having one of our best garden vegetable yea...We are having one of our best garden vegetable years - due (almost entirely) to getting a possum proof pod in which we have grown all the plants! Prior to that the little (insert swear word of choice) used to eat them all! Ah, progress!<br /><br />Cheers - Stewart M - MelbourneStewart Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04622420206244603688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-87912166342208891442018-01-14T22:09:33.169+00:002018-01-14T22:09:33.169+00:00You are certainly persistent! Here in Florida I ha...You are certainly persistent! Here in Florida I have given up on vegetables. Growing season is just starting for tomatoes but I'm not feeding any more of those big caterpillars!Kenneth Cole Schneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13034897745614006325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-41027963843183161072018-01-14T10:55:47.748+00:002018-01-14T10:55:47.748+00:00I can just picture all your onions flopping around...I can just picture all your onions flopping around, but I do hope they find a permanent home in the soil soon and grow for you xxLooking for Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10010049814419812468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-77490291566463654422018-01-13T18:48:19.894+00:002018-01-13T18:48:19.894+00:00While you deal with frost and rain, we have hot an...While you deal with frost and rain, we have hot and can we have some rain please?Diana Studerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286066768376135880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-20878736439910188872018-01-13T14:29:08.797+00:002018-01-13T14:29:08.797+00:00Hello Liz. Possums! From here that sounds wonderfu...Hello Liz. Possums! From here that sounds wonderfully exotic! At the moment I'm in the odd situation of having to buy veg. specially to feed the worms because when cooking with vegetables from the supermarket there's very little left un-used. Carrot tops, apple cores, the odd tough cabbage end and that's about it. But when the allotment really gets going there will probably be a bit more spare vegetation. It will be worth it because I expect the soil (which is very fine, though not sandy) will need a little something to bulk itself up and provide good growing conditions for whatever I put in it. I'm looking forward to runner beans.Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-84485125714871977922018-01-13T14:20:54.660+00:002018-01-13T14:20:54.660+00:00Hello Bettyl. With your comment you've widened...Hello Bettyl. With your comment you've widened things out in an interesting way. It's true that when things are out of place they can draw attention to things which one might otherise have missed. I guess some kinds of art are like that. Already I see mosses as sculpture and lichen as graffiti. I think I will see soil as a canvas from now on - and am grateful to you for that.Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-38894042161547821152018-01-13T13:38:05.596+00:002018-01-13T13:38:05.596+00:00Hello Jo. I know what you mean - especially becaus...Hello Jo. I know what you mean - especially because before planting sets I'd sown onion seeds. They came up, as you say, like grass . . . but got eaten by slugs (or something) each time they grew to about two inches high.Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-77703545471116921742018-01-13T01:00:17.404+00:002018-01-13T01:00:17.404+00:00Lucy, I'm very impressed with your compost! I ...Lucy, I'm very impressed with your compost! I used to have an open pile at the back of my garden, but Henry the possum took up residence nearby and sat on the adjacent fence driving my dogs crazy. Now that space is for twigs and branches that need somewhere to decay. I have two bins now close to the back door. Possum-free. It is such a pleasure to dump kitchen waste and deadheaded and trimmed plants in the bins They seem to fill them up. But a year later there is decomposed brown gold! lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06763167955731744690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-28769393587582573652018-01-12T22:13:54.664+00:002018-01-12T22:13:54.664+00:00I don't grow veggies--that's Hubby's g...I don't grow veggies--that's Hubby's garden out back!--but I can relate to finding things upside down and out of place! And those things truly help you find other things that are interesting.betty-NZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03950300478215339641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-13209082543991364732018-01-12T10:54:12.050+00:002018-01-12T10:54:12.050+00:00I miss my allotment when I read posts such as this...I miss my allotment when I read posts such as this. Onions, they start off as little blades of grass but with so much potential, it never ceases to amaze me how things grow. Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17436932004631816039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-15402502334439504462018-01-12T07:35:49.804+00:002018-01-12T07:35:49.804+00:00Hello Mike at Flightplot. I doubt I would have pla...Hello Mike at Flightplot. I doubt I would have planted onions when I did - or even so many, if it hadn't been that I wanted to show both myself and others that I was serious about the allotment. I tried to put something in each bed as I cleared it. (Still many to go!) That what I sowed or planted was then cleared in one way or another by 'creatures' was a bit of a disappointment. But these at least have survived/ And since they haven't actually done anything much I suppose they might now be best described as early planted spring sets. At least they haven't become etiolated in the dark days . . though maybe that is yet to come.Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-53979881637464734532018-01-12T07:29:26.508+00:002018-01-12T07:29:26.508+00:00Hello Countryside Tales. I wonder . . . voles . . ...Hello Countryside Tales. I wonder . . . voles . . . There were voles where I used to live but I only knew for certain because cats used to catch them and leave them lying around. Without cats . . . That will be something to ask other allotmenteers. (Not so many of them around at present cos they got their plots all sparkling and neat before Christmas!)Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-16539153561158749872018-01-12T07:26:34.196+00:002018-01-12T07:26:34.196+00:00Hello Linda. I remember when I first found out abo...Hello Linda. I remember when I first found out about walking onions. It was on a blog called 'Artists Garden' and the photo of them was wonderful. These aren't supposed to be walking but are! And I agree about the green.Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-29865876308678855812018-01-12T07:14:37.411+00:002018-01-12T07:14:37.411+00:00I hope that you do end with some onions after all ...I hope that you do end with some onions after all that. I don't bother with overwintering ones, I plant sets in the spring and generally do well with them. xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-51856955289739442692018-01-11T21:42:28.587+00:002018-01-11T21:42:28.587+00:00Glorious, all things earthy. I love your wandering...Glorious, all things earthy. I love your wandering onions. My husband shares our veg patch at home with my vole, a small, fat, furry brown person whose front door is located behind a railway sleeper that prevents the veg patch soil spilling onto the grass. He thoughtfully left us a single purple sprouting broccoli plant last year 😬. I watched him eat the others, too fascinated by the process of neat and efficient leaf removal and the ensuing lardering to remember to stop him. I was very popular, as you can imagine. Might you have voles, too? Or possibly bunnies? They are partial to seedling removal. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2079263854400471326.post-46991741538952377142018-01-11T20:59:49.362+00:002018-01-11T20:59:49.362+00:00Hi Lucy, finally getting around to visiting blogs ...Hi Lucy, finally getting around to visiting blogs after our 5 weeks away on the other side of the country. Onions are the first things that pop through the ground here after winter, they are perennial walking onions and I don't grow them for eating very much but because I love to see new growth in the early spring. Hope the allotments does well for you this year.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02114199768103222510noreply@blogger.com