what’s wrong with my onions???

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I often have trouble with onion seedlings. They shrivel up and die a week or two after sprouting. The ones in the tray (the photo on the left) started dying a couple weeks ago. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Fortunately, I also did some winter sowing and seeded onions outside in plastic bottles (photo on the right). These are doing much better. They look good to me. They are growing very slowly, but surely. Last night I picked up my new book, The Gardener’s Bible (my bedtime reading),…
 
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a sunny day

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A perfect day for garden work and looking at flowers. Unfortunately, I wasn’t out there with the squirrel today.
 
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Rock Meadow activity

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This is the community garden where I hope to get a plot this weekend. There was lots of gardening activity over the past weekend. Belmont Victory GardenRock Meadow Conservation Land, Belmont
 
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bulletin board

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I’d like to set up a forum where backyard vegetable gardeners can communicate with each other. It would be nice to have a local forum. (Is this available anywhere – am I missing anything?) Here’s my previous post on this topic. 1. The first reason is to see if and when other local gardeners want to arrange to share extra spring seedlings and meet each other. We could set up a site, like Rock Meadow in Belmont on a certain time and day … 2. Other reasons, to encourage information…
 
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tomato sowing day!

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Here’s my planting list: Tomatoes, New Girl (6 for mom, 3 for me)Tomatoes, Big Beef (6 for mom, 3 for me)Tomatoes, Orange Blossom (3 for mom, 3 for me)Tomatoes, Brandywine (3 for me)Tomatoes, Pink Beauty (3 for mom, 3 for me)Tomatoes, Cherokee Purple (1 for mom, 3 for me)Tomatoes, Purple Calabash (1 for mom, 3 for me)Tomatoes, Giant Belgium (3 for me)Tomatoes, Oxheart Red (3 for me)Tomatoes, San Marzano (3 for me)Tomatoes, Tomango (3 for me) The numbers listed are the numbers of plants I would like in the garden.…
 
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free tomato seeds

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With my seed order, Sand Hill Preservation Center sent me a package of free tomato seeds. The variety is Tomango. Its a stuffing variety, which is almost like a bell pepper. I’ve never heard of this. Tomango: late, Ind, 2 to 4 oz., not quite as hollow, stuffing type, red with yellow streaks.Solanum lycopersicum
 
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a pea sprout!

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Definitely a cause for celebration! I found a little green pea sprout out in the rain today. A Sugar Spring snap pea. Yippee! Not much to look at yet. These were planted on March 18th (17 days ago).
 
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community plot countdown

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I’m getting excited about my upcoming Community garden plot assignment! My count down is into the single digits now! 9 more days! On April 12th I’m hoping for a big sunny new garden plot. I’m number 2 on the waiting list of new gardeners. Someone from a neighboring town asked me how I got on the community plot waiting list. Last summer, I looked on the Belmont town website and found the garden information and emailed my request. For Cambridge, you could check out this link: • How do I…
 
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seedlings

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More sprout photos. I got out my macro. Its like having a cute baby to photograph… just greener… If I watch long enough, I can almost see them grow…. Sprouts in these trays are: onions, kale, peppers, lettuce and escarole. Seeded, but no sprouts yet, are: asters, cosmos and marigolds. Kale (Brassica oleracea, Acephala Group)
 
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Kathy Martin
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy


weeks and counting until my last spring frost

What I planted recently

Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



What I'm planting soon

April 1
peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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“I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together.” – Greg Peterson

"What can happen to a seed is a miracle."

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