Ridgerunner
Garden Master
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2009
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Much like Seed I use a straight line maker to mark a straight line.
I do all the weed control, tilling, amending, and hopefully wind up with an area with few living weeds and grass and with the soil relatively easy to work. Then I use a hoe to mark that line on the ground. Using one of my most dangerous tools, my judgment instead of a measuring device, I push the bulbs into the soft ground with my fingers, root side down and growing side up. I use bulbs that have not yet sprouted or maybe just barely showing some green. The tops of the bulbs are buried, but just barely. Barely buried bulbs. Say that real fast three times. (I know @baymule . That, That, That. I just said "that" three times. Thought I'd save you the trouble of pointing that out.
Love ya too girl!)
I try to put them in two rows about 4" apart and 4" apart in each of those rows. My goal is to sort of stagger them, the onions in the row on the left about halfway between the onions in the row on the right. It's worthwhile having a goal but not necessarily a disaster if you don't always achieve it. If some wind up close together, those get renamed to "Green Onions."
I do all the weed control, tilling, amending, and hopefully wind up with an area with few living weeds and grass and with the soil relatively easy to work. Then I use a hoe to mark that line on the ground. Using one of my most dangerous tools, my judgment instead of a measuring device, I push the bulbs into the soft ground with my fingers, root side down and growing side up. I use bulbs that have not yet sprouted or maybe just barely showing some green. The tops of the bulbs are buried, but just barely. Barely buried bulbs. Say that real fast three times. (I know @baymule . That, That, That. I just said "that" three times. Thought I'd save you the trouble of pointing that out.
Love ya too girl!)I try to put them in two rows about 4" apart and 4" apart in each of those rows. My goal is to sort of stagger them, the onions in the row on the left about halfway between the onions in the row on the right. It's worthwhile having a goal but not necessarily a disaster if you don't always achieve it. If some wind up close together, those get renamed to "Green Onions."
