Onions Onions Onions!

I am not sure how many onion plants I have, but I think I am setting a record. Not just a personal record. They are everywhere. I think I may have 50 or 60 plants. And all are doing well.

I was thinking lately how every year there is something different happening. This year it seems the booms are all about onions, garlic, lettuce, and herbs. Last year, I tried so hard to get good lettuce yields, onion and garlic to grow more than the size of a dime, and forget about herbs. But I did have 23 tomato plants proving prolific, and too much broccoli. This year? I hope I get some tomatoes off the plants that I seemed to have stunted indoors, and as for the broccoli, well, it all got eaten and the second planting never germinated.

It seems to be true that the more thought and effort you put into a plant, the better it does. Last year I was so worried about the tomatoes and the broccoli; this year, I really wanted some success with alliums and lettuce. So there you have it. Perhaps as the years go on, I will become more familiar and therefore more relaxed about all of it, and therefore have more of a general success. That is the hope at least.