{"id":235,"date":"2014-05-05T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T00:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2014-05-05T20:20:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T00:20:43","slug":"onion-spinach-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/onion-spinach-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Onion and Spinach Update for May 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I will take pictures of my plants and post them on this website for you to see what they look like and how they are growing.\u00a0 Since these are the only two plants that are in the garden so far that is what I will discuss in this post.<\/p>\n<p>Once I plant more in the garden I will be giving updates on most of my plants, but only when they receive fruit or other events happen with them.\u00a0 It would not be wise to post pictures of these plants every day.\u00a0 I will however do an update at least once a week and when fruit starts to grow then the frequency will increase.\u00a0 For now let&#8217;s stick to onions and spinach.<!--more-->As you know from <a title=\"Picking Spinach Leaves, Weeding, and Adding Wood Ash\" href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/picking-spinach-leaves-weeding-adding-wood-ash\/\">the previous post<\/a> I added some wood ash and some lime to both plants.\u00a0 The onions received pelleted lime and a few spinach plants were given wood ash as a test.\u00a0 So far both plants are progressing like planned and they seem to be healthy enough to produce delicious and edible food.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can see the plants that received wood ash are growing good and the wood ash seems not to have harmed the plant.\u00a0 This is good news and the next thing that needs to be done is actually eating the spinach leaves.\u00a0 This is always the last test with any type of harvest you produce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-236\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-029-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Spinach with Wood Ash progress\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-029-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-029.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-237\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-031-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Spinach with Wood Ash Progress #2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-031-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-031.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The onions are also growing good with most of them sprouting and thriving in this temperate climate.\u00a0 You can see the white powder that was created from the pelleted lime when it came in contact with water.\u00a0 This is what happens when you use this type of lime.\u00a0 It will eventually get into the soil after I water them a few times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-049-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Onions with Left Over Lime\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-049-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Picture-3-049.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall the plants are doing as good as I could have hoped for.\u00a0 Soon the spinach will need to be fed some nitrogen because they are heavy feeders of this nutrient and this is how the leaves stay dark green.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want to have pale green spinach leaves right?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I will take pictures of my plants and post them on this website for you to see what they look like and how they are growing.\u00a0 Since these are the only two plants that are in the garden so far that is what I will discuss &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on 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