These seeds were saved from a plant that was damaged more than a few times from the furry stinky whistle pigs. This orange blossom was saved in late October for its amazing resilience as well as brilliant orange coloring.
I've never planted onions from seed before. This is the first year that I will not rely on onion sets from a catalog or a local nursery. Reason being that you'll never get large onions from onion sets. If you want big onions, you need to start them from seed - and early! So on January 22, I decided to plant 4 flats - 72 each for a total of 288.
Below are some snapshots of my weather station data. The first is a look back at the entire year of 2011.
The second chart shows the entire month of January, 2012.
I feel that January is an important month to feed the birds. My theory is that by attracting birds to this area, they may live here year round and help keep the insect population down in the summer months.
Look for an onion update in February!
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