May 14, 2022
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Good morning!
It’s Saturday. These sad little things don’t look like much, do they? Believe it or not, they are onions. Or they will be.
It’s my favorite gardening ritual of the season, the planting of the onions. If we’re really lucky, they’ll take root and slowly grow into this year’s harvest. Their planting kicks off the next step in the season: Hauling the pile of hoses out from under the barn, untangling them, getting everything screwed back together properly, and dragging them down to the lower garden for the first official watering of the year. Many steps make a season.
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
—Vincent Van Gogh
Onwards,
Clara
I love spring, not least because of the planting. I used to have a large garden, now we are down to container gardening, and my husband plants new onions by sticking the cut end from the scallions in the pots. We have gotten some beautiful spring onions that way. Enjoy!
How exciting!! I started a little tea garden last year and have been enjoying drying the various plants. My butterfly bushes are blooming and for the first time in my entire life I have actually enjoyed gardening (don’t tell my mom!)