Minnesota Outdoorsman
General Category => Lawn & Garden => Topic started by: glenn57 on October 10/04/16, 10:58:44 AM
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anyone interested in winter onion sets?????????? there kinda like dem scallions ya can buy. i have all kinds and am willing to share!
they are usually the first thing edible in spring!!
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Will you deliver and plant them? ;D
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i can send them...you get to plant.............not that hard but i suppose like everything else...............us union guys gotta do it all!!!!!!! right boober!!!!!!! :happy1: :rotflmao:
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Do you plant them now?
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you can!!!!!!!
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Is that what you do Glen?
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Glenn if you get my way I'll take some,How many yah gotz? A whole bunch may be to many for us maybe 1/2 bunch.
LPS in grocery stores they call em spring onions, small bulbs and large green stems and sweeter than the summer onions they are excellent for anything using raw onion,Kinda taste like scallions but bigger.
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Ya I like those. I have never planted onions before. Would be fun to try. That is what I am wondering if to plant them now or in the spring. Glen I would send you some Lindell stuff in trade if you are interested. Thanks for the help to Dew.
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sure can. both of ya. LPS PM me your mailing address.
plant them now. they will come up in the spring. use what you want but leave some to let grow new sets, replant them and start over!!!!!!
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Very cool Glen. Sounds like fun. Have you ever grown them in the house to use all winter? I was just reading about that. AND it said do not plant them near green beans or peas. lol how about that. I may try to raise some in the house....
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nope, never have. i have a seperate spot for them. use to be my kids old sand box. thgere is rubarb by it though.
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Message sent Glen....
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Hey Glenn are these the onions you have??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRphdu3xqs
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Yepper looks like them.
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LPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your winter onions went in the mail today. my wife called and said you should recieve them by saturday. enjoy.
find a spot to plant them. i'd just loosen up the ground, rake it off to the side so its about 1/2 deep. scatter the onions about and cover them up. they dont need to be very deep. most those i picked where laying on top of the ground and had already established roots!!
dew you will have yours sat morning also.
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i can send them...you get to plant.............not that hard but i suppose like everything else...............us union guys gotta do it all!!!!!!! right boober!!!!!!! :happy1: :rotflmao:
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Thanks Glen this will be a fun project.
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6k, since I now have my sets from Glenn, the dumb questions: Once I plant them, and they grow...I pull'em up and eat them. So, what makes them continue "on"...do I have to keep planting sets, or what? As in, tomatos put out more fruit...so do other crops, I'm not sure on the onion thing.... :scratch: Or, is there a different green top type that seeds itself from roots or something? Don't tell me I haveta keep poking sets in the ground....
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I thought winter onions were the kind you planted in the spring and plucked some but let them stay growing for later picks??
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Don't harvest all of them. Let a bunch grow. Somewhere about mid to end of June they will start "flowering" or better put producing seeds on the top. By fall they will look like the things I gave you. Before it freezes just replant those sets that grew off the tops.
Hope this helps!
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I thought winter oniotns were the kind you planted in the spring and plucked some but let them stay growing for later picks??
nope plant them in the fall. They will be one of the first thing harvestable in spring.
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Reb, yea ya kinda have to it keeps them thinned out. They eventually fall off and will start growing. There isn't hardly any work to these if you don't want to.
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I thought winter oniotns were the kind you planted in the spring and plucked some but let them stay growing for later picks??
nope plant them in the fall. They will be one of the first thing harvestable in spring.
ok I said that wrong, but I think that's what we had for along time.. can they be planted in a pail or something and keep going??
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Yea they could but I don't see a pail holding much. And yes they can keep going provided you leave some so they are allowed to reseed.
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I thought winter onions were the kind you planted in the spring and plucked some but let them stay growing for later picks??
Hey Mikey!! Know how they gets the water in the watermelon?? They plants them in the SPRING!!!!! HYUK HYUK!!!
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I thought winter onions were the kind you planted in the spring and plucked some but let them stay growing for later picks??
Hey Mikey!! Know how they gets the water in the watermelon?? They plants them in the SPRING!!!!! HYUK HYUK!!!
DOAH!!! :bonk: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :offtopic: :offtopic: :offtopic:
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IS NOT! IS NOT!!! It's about gardening!!! NYA!! :moon:
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I thought winter onions were the kind you planted in the spring and plucked some but let them stay growing for later picks??
Hey Mikey!! Know how they gets the water in the watermelon?? They plants them in the SPRING!!!!! HYUK HYUK!!!
DOAH!!! :bonk: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :offtopic: :offtopic: :offtopic:
Id that one!!!
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I am looking forward to the winter onions I planted that Glenn gave me. Thanks Glenn. You are a great guy regardless what I hear on here...
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When the 16" snow on the ground here melt, sometime around July, I'll plant mine!!! :azn:
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hey no problem guys..........i enjoy helping out.
LPS......them guys are just jealous!!!!!!! burp-402.gif burp-402.gif :rotflmao: :happy1:
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When the 16" snow on the ground here melt, sometime around July, I'll plant mine!!! :azn:
snow??????? snow :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: what snow??????????? :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
i'm planning on a campfire sunday afternoon in my backyard!!!!!!!! :campfire: :campfire: :campfire: :toast: :toast:
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Well, big whoop!! I'm planning on farting in the wind in mine!!!!!! fart-421.gif
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Perfume for the neighbor lady? Letting her know your ready!!! :scratch: sleazy-422.gif
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Perfume for the neighbor lady? Letting her know your ready!!! :scratch: sleazy-422.gif
WHY YOU.............. :angry: :taz: :taz: :taz: training-087 :fudd: :green archer: :swords:
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Look what popped up!! :happy1:
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I suppose they are from the first batch too!! :rotflmao:
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Not positive, but I think they're all batch #2. I might have planted the others too deep....they were in kinda tough shape from being bagged in garage all winter. I shoulda opened up the bag to give 'em some air..they got kinda mushy.
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good for ya!!
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First picking of winter onions.
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I planted about 20 of your onions Glenn. We weeded last night and could only find 3 that came up. They are about 3" tall. Will be fun to see how they do. I found some of the bulbs that were hollow. I also found a small light tan caterpillar about an inch long. Actually two of them. Wonder what they are???
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Well, they're not normal onions...I think they're Smurf scallions!! :scratch: :tongue:
Maybe an onion fly larvae...see the pic..
http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/onion-pests-and-diseases.html
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I planted about 20 of your onions Glenn. We weeded last night and could only find 3 that came up. They are about 3" tall. Will be fun to see how they do. I found some of the bulbs that were hollow. I also found a small light tan caterpillar about an inch long. Actually two of them. Wonder what they are???
:scratch: :scratch: :scratch: hmm????? me not understand.....this fall when they reseed we can try again. never had an issue with them growing like weeds!!!!!!!!!
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I had a couple hollow ones, too.... Maybe Glenn should issue a recall, but I think he's skirting the issue....
"Oh, mine were fine! Grow like weeds! Hundreds of 'em! Big as cucumbers!" :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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I thank you for the ones that made it Glenn. We are fairly new to gardening so we have a lot to learn also. I need to google those inch long tan caterpillars that I found in the garden..
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I already et most of mine. Six left to pull. ;D
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pouty-1023.gif pouty-1023.gif unfortunately I am beginning to see the end of my winter onions!!!!! there starting to form that seed pocket. when that happens there about toast for the year. maybe one more pickin!!!!!!!
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I picked a whole bunch at the store today!
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well whoopty doo! I picked a gallon ziplock bag for free!!!!! :moon: :rotflmao:
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Well I am out of winter onions. No I didn't eat a single one of them. A few survived the winter and came up in my raised garden. I pulled the grasses around them and then there were only 3, then down to 2, then only one left and I looked today and it is gone. It was about 6" high and looking healthy. I think something took them. There are no tracks so a critter reached in and swiped them. Deer??
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Stoopid skwirrels were munching on mine!!! What don't those rotten rats eat?! :mad1:
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I do have a few squirrels around here.
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i got tree rats in my yard and never had issues. this fall iffin you guys want we can try round 2!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would like to give it another try Glenn. I will put a little fence up around the onion patch.
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Tell ya what.....I have gray squirrels and red squirrels in my yard......the ones that do the MOST destruction in my gardens, are the red.....
But, for some reason....they get lead poisoning and die though.... :scratch:
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The lead thing in red squirrels must be contagious. They all die from it up here too. I don't have many grays so we leave them alone.
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yea it must be. i dont recall seeing red ones at home but we just doinked 5 up at the cabin last weekend!!!!!
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My last winter onion dissapeared Glenn... Darn!
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My last winter onion dissapeared Glenn... Darn!
really??????????? :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: i have never had that issue. only disappearing act with then winter onions i ever had was when i got into them. :rotflmao:
well, i've been watching the progress of them reseeding, they should be ready to pluck by the campapalooza weekend, if you want i can bring anther bunch up then!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ok great
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Just got some onion sets and put them in the ground as it was raining. They should be good to go for this fall.
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Glenn, when do you harvest the seed pods? Do you store them for a while or plant them right away? Thanks, Art
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Roony, looked at mine tonite. actually the usually just fall of and regrow. i'd personally wait a month then pluck them and put them right back into the ground. its what I usually do!!!
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"It's what I usually do...It's what I usually do...*RAWK* ya sound like a friggin' parrot! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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DONT GET ALL UPTIGHT JUST CAUSE ROCKY ate all yours!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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:taz: :taz: :taz: :fudd:
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LPS, My bride will me mailing you a Cate package tomorrow. If you get them in the ground you should have a good start for next spring. :happy1:
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Hey thanks much Glenn. I did buy some sets and planted them after the critters took the ones you sent me. Mine are growing great and it is the first time I have planted onions. Will plant yours for next year and look forward to it. How deep should I plant them and when should I plant them?
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Plant them as soon as you get them. Just let them go they will be fine over winter. Just make sure there covered with snow or something.
You don't need to plant them deep. Make a little trench no more then an inch deep put sets in and cover a bit with dirt.
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Hey Glenn thanks so much. I am pulling my green peppers since the dogs ate all of them and planting the onions there.
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Your dogs or 'yotes???
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Hey no problem. Plenty more where they came from. Hope they work for ya this go round.
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Your dogs or 'yotes???
The dogs frequently walk around with a green tomato in their mouth so I am thinking they did the peppers in too. :crazy:
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HHAHAHAHAHA!! OOP, :sorry: Not funny...that's unreal. :doah:
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had a couple dogs that ate maters, but only the ripe ones!!!!
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That's crazy. Never had hounds that did that. On the other hand the deer up north sure like my mom's hosta's! Barely any leaves left on all her plants. :rotflmao:
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Barry noticed lately there seemed to be less brats on the grill than he remembered..... :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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that is smiling and looks so happy!!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :happy1:
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Man does that look good. I could handle a chili dog right now.
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Man does that look good. I could handle a chili dog right now.
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Man does that look good. I could handle a chili dog right now.
that is funny!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :happy1:
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Hey Roony, have you tried any winter onions yet??? I looked at mint and I might try some maybe Saturday. Kinda looks like they may need another week or so. :scratch:
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Not yet but I am thinking about it. We had our first asparagus on Monday, it was super
Maybe I'll dig up few onions before supper. Did you ask Reb how his onions turned out?
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:rotflmao: :rotflmao: nope not lately. :rotflmao:
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I looked at our asparagus and they don't even exist yet. Can't wait. I would like to try onions again. Even the green top ones.
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I looked at our asparagus and they don't even exist yet. Can't wait. I would like to try onions again. Even the green top ones.
didn't I send you some? Once a while ago?? Later this summer I can again. If you want.
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Yes you did Glenn. It was dry as heck that year and I don't think I watered them enough. I am a novice gardener but enjoying it more every year.
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I've got a few sprigs of asparagus poking up now, but that's about it.
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I've got a few sprigs of asparagus poking up now, but that's about it.
I can't wait wait for the first meal of that!!!!!
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Asparagus, yumm!. It grows wild all over in the ditches down home.
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I've got a few sprigs of asparagus poking up now, but that's about it.
I may have to go check out my patch this weekend!!!!!!!! :sleazy:
took a peek at the onions yesterday...…….gonna be pullin and cleaning a few tomorrow!!!!! :happy1: :happy1:
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winter onions are set to go......dang they are tasty. :happy1: :happy1:
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anyone in the market for some winter onion seeds.............almost free!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
actually they are..........need to wait a little longer, but i gotz more then enough.......just like to share.
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Word on the streets they don't grow fer squat tho... :rotflmao: :mooning:
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Word on the streets they don't grow fer squat tho... :rotflmao: :mooning:
:pouty: well then you definitely were on the wrong street. :mooning: :mooning: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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They must not grow in Rochester..lol
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They must not grow in Rochester..lol
:scratch: Must NOT be enough fertilizer!! :super smiley: :super smiley: :super smiley: :laughroll: :laughroll: :laughroll:
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They must not grow in Rochester..lol
:scratch: Must NOT be enough fertilizer!! :super smiley: :super smiley: :super smiley: :laughroll: :laughroll: :laughroll:
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: more like WAAYYYYYYYYYYY to much!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Glenn, I would like to try them again. My ground my be better for them now. It is nice loose soil.
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Glenn, I would like to try them again. My ground my be better for them now. It is nice loose soil.
will do. i want to let them get more advanced in the turning to seed process. but i'll send ya some!!!!!!!
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LPS..... i sent ya a pm!!!!!!!! :happy1: need your mailing address!!!!!
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Hey does anyone have LPS's address they can pm me?? :scratch: I see he hasn't logged in since this morning so he is either chasing momma around that new to him boat or playing hind go seek in da woods. :sleazy: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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PM sent!!
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PM sent!!
got it. Thanks Gunner!!! :happy1: :happy1:
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Hey does anyone have LPS's address they can pm me?? :scratch: I see he hasn't logged in since this morning so he is either chasing momma around that new to him boat or playing hind go seek in da woods. :sleazy: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
I have it.....
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Gunner lead me to it. Thought I had it too but couldn't find it. I googled it.
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Sorry Glenn for the delay. Yes the wife was keeping me busy!
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Sorry Glenn for the delay. Yes the wife was keeping me busy!
:sleazy: :nerd: :nerd: ;) :rolleyes: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Sorry Glenn for the delay. Yes the wife was keeping me busy!
no biggy. They will go in the mail today. :happy1:
To plant them just make a 3/4 to 1 inch deep trench, row stick them in the trench and put dirt over the top. They will come growing together. The smaller bunches you can plant together and bigger ones you can break apart. It isn't uncommon for them once there established to grow together anyway.
The key is next year when you start to use them is to let some leftover so they reproduce the seeds. You can then let them fall or pick them and replant them.
Mine are planted in a mixture of sun and shade. They seem to like a somewhat dandy soil. I did have some in done pretty good black dirt and seemed to do good there though.
Good luck with them and enjoy. :happy1:
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Do they need to be planted right away Glenn?
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Yea I would plant them soon. Will give them a good start for next spring. In late fall I usually cover them some with leaves. Helps a bit for winter protection. But the frozen ground won't kill them.
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They, along with my pension application went into the mail today. :happy1: :happy1: