The weekend was a scorcher, which was a blessing as I had quite a few onion sets to plant. I arrived thinking I had a fairly big job on my hands trying to find a home for about 200 onions but when I opened the padded envelope and ripped open 1 of the 3 sacks of onions, I realised that 1000 might be nearer the mark.
I was pretty determined not to run out of onions quite as quickly as I had this year but 1000 might be overkill. Much sucking of teeth and sharp intakes of breath followed as I wondered where they were all going to go. I could actually turn the entire plot over to onions at that rate but that was going to require a lot of digging. My big job just got a lot bigger, so I did the only thing that can be done under the circumstances. I opened a bottle of honey beer and had a little sit down to think.
Two bottles of waggledance later, the onions were still sitting there, so I gave one pack to my neighbour and reduced the challenge by a third. Success!
A couple of wonky rows went in before I started watering and was pleased to create my very own rainbow. Having the foot of the rainbow land in my Brussel Sprout patch must augur well for a bumper Christmas harvest, it didn’t unfortunately mark the site of a pot of gold.
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1 easygardener // Oct 1, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I ended up with far to many onions last year as the pack always contains far more than you think. Your Brussel Sprouts are are looking good. I’ve never had much success with red ones -which I assume yours are, unless it’s reflections from the rainbow turning them purple
2 earthwoman // Oct 1, 2008 at 7:17 pm
No, it’s not the rainbow, much to my surprise I appear to have grown purple sprouts. I hope they taste good.
3 Joy // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Oh my god I laughed when I read your post !
I think the picture is awesome .. and the story too funny .. great and very realistic work my friend !
Joy : )
4 Karen - An Artists Garden // Oct 1, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Crikey - 1000 onions
I am flabbergasted - I was trying to think of someone to go halves with on a pack of 70
Lovely post
Lovely rainbow shot.
Karen
5 Tyra in Vaxholm, Sweden // Oct 2, 2008 at 9:44 am
Great photo and I like your post/ LOL Tyra
6 Rach // Oct 4, 2008 at 8:36 am
Must have been a relief to see the rainbow on the photograph, wasn’t just a honey beer induced hallucination! x
7 HappyMouffetard // Oct 5, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Great post! I’ve got a lot of onions to plant too (although not anywhere near 1000!)- I’ll take a leaf out of your book and start with a beer. Cheers!
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