Yes, it’s early to start harvesting my vegetables, but with the crazy weather this year, my onions think they’ve gone through two growing seasons and they are ready to come out of the ground. How do I know this? Google. Actually, a more correct answer would be this: I Googled, “Why are my onions flowering?” and that is what the search results told me.
See the flowers? One is near the top left hand corner of the picture, with the other two on the right hand side. I have about 5-6 flowering onion plants, and I hope the rest are smart enough to know that they’ve only been in the ground a couple of months, not two years.
A flowering onion means I need to harvest the onions early, although they will be small. So I picked (or is the word harvested?) one, and I plan to pick the rest over the next few days. Thankfully, I have a ton of onions left, so I should have at least a few that grow to full size onions. I also picked a couple of radishes, because they looked like they were peeking out of the ground.
So I have one lonely red onion and three lonely radishes. What should I do with them? Salad, anyone?
Honestly, what did novice gardeners do before the Internet? How did they know what to do when something crazy happened, like onions flowering?
Now, I’m sure you’re dying to know how the rest of my garden is doing, so I’m going to post a few pictures updating you on my plants’ progress.
My three spaghetti squash plants are continuing to grow, and this one is the farthest along. It has little flowers forming, which I hope will attract bees to pollinate once the female flowers emerge.
My cherry tomato plant is doing wonderfully! I have several dozen little tomatoes growing, and two are almost ready to pick!
My zucchini (or crookneck squash, I can’t remember which one I planted) plant is doing well with little baby squash growing. I can’t wait until I can pick those. Squash is one of my most favorite vegetables, and, if what everyone says is true, I’ll have a boatload!
This is my Anaheim pepper plant. It’s the only pepper plant I actually planted this year as my other three plants survived the winter. It’s coming along beautifully, and it looks like I’ll have some peppers pretty soon.
It’s heating up all over the USA, and I know a lot of you are getting your gardens into the ground. I’d love to hear an update on your garden!
