Last year I started the onion seeds early in January, too early I think because they were kind of stunted when I set them out into the garden rows last April. So this year I have purposely delayed. Yes, these will be seeds, not sets. Sets are already entering their second season when you see them in the stores. Onions want to go to seed in their second year so their ability to store well over the winter is not good. My grown from seed onions are still storing well. Onion sets are ok if you will be eating them all before they sacrifice their bodies to make seeds. After throwing out mushy onions with green tops within weeks of harvesting and some while still in the garden, I switched to starting them from seed. Each type does have it's purpose.
Yesterday we cleaned up a few pounds of garlic to sell. I think the bulbs stored much better than when we cleaned them all soon after taking them down from the shed where their tops go from green to dry in about 3 weeks time. This year the tops were cut off and the bulbs were stored with dirty wrappers on them. Apparently that helped. I need to remember that!
On our way home from delivering garlic we picked up about 10 big bags of leaves. They were outside and have plenty of moisture both inside and outside of the bags. They were sitting in snow and had been rained on so we got pretty wet handling them. After we got home we transferred them 3 at a time from the bed of the pickup to the box on the Kawasaki mule and took them down the hill to add to my sizable collection just outside the garden fence. I hope they are as free of candy wrappers and etc. as what I get at the apartment complex. Sometimes leaves that are raked and bagged in people's yards also include non-garden items. One particularly nasty one a few years ago had an old partly burned chair cushion and the contents of a very full and stinky ash tray. UGH! Occasionally there has been a glove or a mitten, small dog toy or kid toys, but no actual garbage except for that cushion. No food, plastic bottles, cans, etc. The most common thing to find in a bag of leaves is the box the bags came in, right in the bottom!
The big herd of antelope have begun traveling up to our area again. They winter at a lower elevation near the Snake River. We haven't seen any since last fall. None have come to our land yet but we saw a couple of hundred a few miles away.
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