Cool! Hey, most of my plants get put through the pot ghetto before I plant them...some of them don't make it ;-( They have to be tough!

My mother always had a patch of walking onions. But she called them winter onions. And this was because you could go and pull some all winter long, if your patch was big enough, and use them in your cooking. We never noticed that they were strong, but it's probably a good thing that they are as she would only use a few at a time. I have had walking onions from time to time, but they tend to not grow as fast as I use them so I have depleted the patch a couple of times. I got a handful of them from a friend a couple of years ago and I have been refraining from using any in order to build up the patch. Carol, you probably do have wild onion, or wild garlic, or both. I have battled a wild garlic for several years, but it blooms each fall and disburses seed as well as spreading underground. I sure hope I got it out this year. It's not so much that I mind having them, it's just that they're so invasive and they fill up the space so completely you can't plant anything else near it. Our neighbors have it in their yard too: I can smell it when they mow their grass. I am determined this year to get totally rid of three things: wild garlic, primrose, and black-eyed susan. I bought the primrose at a garage sale, the lady didn't bother to tell me about their habit and they were so pretty in bloom. But they travel. They don't stay where you plant them and just go where they like. Before you know it, they are everywhere EXCEPT where you planted them! And the black-eyed susans -- gosh! I noticed my neighbor two yards over had a little planting of them one summer about three years ago. Either the wind blew the seed or the birds scattered it, because they became a weed in my little herb garden corner. They were so thick you could hardly see anything else! I have totally scalped that area, and you know, as I was looking things over this morning I discovered one about ready to bloom, in with my oregano! Once you get something like this, you really have to be vigilant. If even one plant gets to bloom, it seems it instantly makes seed and you are right back where you started. Oddly enough, though, I have never seen any more of them growing in my neighbor's yard other than that one year.

Dawn, Thanks for remembering that, because I had searched, and found the Nolo bait, and was wondering if it really worked. I'll bet our grasshoppers are close to 1/2" but I'm going to try it anyway, if it doesn't work, I'll order the other stuff. I have seen a lot more grasshoppers here than what we usually have, and was fearful for the tomatoes!! I'll bet the guineas would not work here in town. We got our first tomato today, it was a big boy and was pretty good. It actually did not rain here today, yea!!

Are they growing? As in green tops? If so, you may want to pot them up. If they are dormant, then store them like, well, onions. Cool, dry, maybe even dark. I wouldn't mist them if they are dormant. It may be a while before the soil is workable. tj