I find myself to be surrounded with luck in the Spring. Usually, luck doesn't have a distinct odor to it, however, this year it smells suspiciously like onions. "So," you say, "you think you get luck from the allium family? How....pungent!" The reply should be sarchastic and no doubt droll, but the only thing that comes to mind in way of an answer is to play show-n-tell. First crop of the 2012 gardening season is onions (about 50 of them!)
Why are they my luck? Well, I don't remember planting them. Oddly enough they showed up on three seperate locations. Each nicely planted in their perfect rows. Funny thing about these onions...I don't have onions on my planting list for last year. By the looks of things, I planted them in the summer of 2010 and after two winters (one hard and one mild) and a full growing season, they decided to make themselves usefull. I'm not complaining, but I am mystified. All of my books on gardening would indicate that this is impossible or, at best, improbable. But here they are and boy-o-boy are they tasty!
Next on the list is an experiment that I decided to try last fall. I didn't pull the cabbages. Mainly, because I was dissappointed in their growth over the very wet summer growing season. Out of 8 planted cabbages, I harvested zero. Yep! Not a single cabbage produced last year. So I left them where they lay and felt oddly vindictive...a rather satisfying event. Mwahaha! My cabbages didn't founder or die, though. Thanks to the very mild winter we were blessed with in 2011/2012, they grew all winter long. Now they are in bloom and I am patiently waiting for seed. Cool, huh?
I puchased a book at Lehman Hardware in Kidron, OH during the boring season (garden-speak for "the period of time when the gardener is stuck inside the house with nothing but houseplants and gardening catalogs") detailing when, how, and why to harvest seeds for sustainable gardening. Little did I know that I was not punishing my cabbages for not growing but I was really acting in a non-selfish and "green" manner. Go me!
Until next time....
I wish for you quiet, dignity, and grace.
DR
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