PoCo Gardens

By Ed Peterson Just harvested:  Red and yellow onions.  Beauties! The Journey Begins We started in March, planting onion sets of 2 sorts, red and yellow.  Onion sets are simply small dry onions, like a scallion or green onion almost, that can be transplanted and grown easily without having to seed indoors.  We have seeded onions indoors with good success, but this year we ordered sets with another gardener and split them up between us for planting.   The exact type I cannot recall, apologies.  I'll get better at documenting all the specifics as we continue.   Onions are one of the first things we plant and they can be planted as early as the first or second week of March in our zone, which is zone 5, in the Chicago-land area, where the average last frost is around April 20th.   Planting Planting the sets is simple; just push the bulb end of the onion into damp soil until just the top is showing, and the onion w...

Some Hardneck Garlic Harvested 07/15/2019 Why Grow Garlic? Today we'll discuss growing and harvesting hardneck garlic from our garden.  We grow garlic for many reasons, the foremost of which is that it is delicious and versatile.  We use it raw in hummus and pesto, roasted with root vegetables, and of course as an aromatic for sauces, soups, and many other things.  In addition, the medicinal, healing qualities of garlic are well documented and understood on a basic level by most.  For those looking for more information about the nutritive and medicinal qualities of garlic, you can read some of the articles linked here:  https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/11-proven-health-benefits-of-garlic https://www.healwithfood.org/medicinal-uses/garlic-healing-properties.php http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=60 Or simply google search like I did. Growing the garlic oneself allows control over what is done or not done to the garlic wh...