Vegmonkey and the Mrs.

We have harvested all our onions. 37 from a space no bigger than 120cm long by 45cm wide, using sets from Wilkinsons! Now that shows how easy it is to grow onions if nothing else does. I have hung them by their necks in the shed from a makeshift drying rack consisting of an old underbed shoe rack, dismantled and attached to the shed roof and walls with garden twine and nails.

Maybe next year we will tie them correctly in plaits…for now they look happy enough. When the necks start to go papery and the onions develop more of a coating, i’ll take them down and put them on top of the drying rack, for use throughout the winter.

To keep the space busy, i’ve emptied the remaining hundreds of Amsterdam Forcing carrot seeds into the space where the onions came from and covered it with a cloche. I don’t think we’ll have to do much thinning as the slugs generally do that for us. Maybe it’s time for another load of nematodes!

New shed! New shed! Bought from Homebase with garden vouchers we were given. It’s green (now), well, ‘Wild Thyme’ to be exact. I think i prefer green. I took the pic while it was unfinished…it is now finished, although we have only really got a spade and a set of shelves to go in! I’m sure it will expand over time.

I think it was a good idea to get the smaller shed, the larger one would have taken up too much space…aren’t i good…who am i kidding? Should have got the bigger one!

Hello to all who have stumbled upon us. We are vegmonkey and the Mrs., (still recovering from the wedding 2 weeks ago…see pic) trying to use as much of our little terraced garden as we can in a productive way….so goodbye horrid decking…hello big bits of wood, well, raised beds to be precise…