Onions, Squash, and Some Herbs

Now that most of the cold weather is done for the season and actual Spring temperatures have arrived it is time to start planting onions.  Although there might be some cool days here and there this will not affect onions that much.

It only took about an hour to plant my onions in my large totes that I use each season.  This year I would continue growing them in totes and some in the garden.  This happened to work quite well last season and I still have some onions left from 2015.

I like to use what works and then improve upon it and since totes work and planting them in the ground also works I will do both practices.  Right now I have only planted the onion bulbs in the totes and I have not had the chance to add them to the ground.

I was able to till the area in which they will grow.  All I need to do is start planting them and I will be all set with my onions for the year.  It shouldn’t take too long and tomorrow is supposed to be relatively good weather I will try getting the rest of my onion bulbs into the ground.

20 onion bulbs is perfect for these sized totes.  I actually have one that has 25 because I wanted to see if 25 would work in these large containers.  Remember I am always testing in order to have a better yield than the previous season.  The good news is that onions do not need that much room so this might work out.

I also decided on getting my squash plants ready for the summer by planting them in large cups indoors.  These are probably the easiest to plant because they are large seeds and they sprout quite fast.

I am going to be growing seven zucchini plants and four pumpkins hopefully.  As long as they all sprout and survive the transplanting process I should have a decent crop.  Here are a couple of seeds being planted yesterday.

Along with my squash I wanted to grow some more flowers and a couple of herbs.  I planted some parsley and basil which is some of the easiest herbs to grow.  I like to plant an entire packet in a large pot of dirt.

I even planted some different types of seeds that are made for attracting bees and butterflies.  As you know I already have flowers that I use for this purpose, but this season I was given a packet of Burpees bees and butterfly garden mix.

This packet includes many different types of annual and perennial seeds that I can use to attract these insects.  Check out the seeds below.

I don’t know exactly what is in it and some of the seeds do look familiar, but I can tell you that I did plant them in a small container yesterday.  Let’s hope that these seeds help in attracting bees, butterflies, and anything else that can help out the garden.