Lovely! I pulled a few Blossom turbans last week and they are curing nicely. Hope you have lots of dry, breezy weather for curing yours. When I pulled my overwintering onions a week or so back, I noticed they left behind much more root mass in the soil compared to other onions. Interesting.

Tina, I went to visit the garden near my house that Tom was talking about and here is my report. While everything is producing in the ground, tomatoes including, he even had some ripe already, they started to show signs of disease, a lot of yellowing leaves and wilt. As for the artichokes they were producing really well! huge heads but they had bugs that came from all the animal bug planet, I have never seen them before, the interesting thing is that I saw no small animals eating them even the garden is in the open and we have in the area, squirrels, armadillos, skunks and others. About the blue tomato plant, out of my 45 different varieties, a lot of them from Tom, they are producing fruit now, but I could not called them the strongest plants, the experts said the strain are not set yet or something like that. From all the blue plants that I grew some of them have purple stems and some not, we will see how the tomatoes turn out. Another new tomato that is showing to be very productive is the cherry, tomato berry and it is shaped like a strawberry, cute! Keep the sweet potato slips moist till established, after that they will be very hardy in the garden and don't forget to keep some sweet potatoes for the future. Silvia

Posted by skybird. . . Sure wish I had enough space to grow a few SWEET onions! Gardeners aren't usually able to claim that they don't have enuf room for onions, Skybird. I've got them out there dancing cheek to cheek from the very earliest of the season. What I do lately with sweet onions is to sow seed in the unheated greenhouse in February. I pay some attention to conditions in there so that the soil doesn't freeze. The heat goes on in mid-March but the onion seedlings (they've sprouted by then) are moved outside after only a week or 2, once the heat is turned on. I'm hardening them off but soon, they are staying out overnight. Once again, I'm trying not to let the soil in the flat freeze. Nearly as early as I put onion sets into the open garden, I'm out there pushing the little sweet onion (& bunching onion) seedlings into a prepared bed. I doubt if they've got 4" of ground between them. As they grow, most of the onions are pulled for scallion use. That leaves room for maybe 1/3rd remaining to reach a mature, sweet onion size. Scallions from sets come out first, then those from sweet onions, next come those bunching onions. There's no wait. While the bunching onions are still coming out of the garden -- the sweet onion bulbs are ready to harvest. As I noted above, I have several sweet onions each year but Ovation really lasts well beyond the time when the Utah & Walla Walla's are gone (about the 1st of December at the latest). Apparently, my basement is a good place for onions. Since I've only got the Ovation for storage this year, I will have to keep track of how long they last but, they should do well. Anyway, the mature onions are so crowded that they are almost, but not quite, pushing each other out of the ground at harvest time. Steve

Looking good MM. I suppose 232 isn't really that many when you think of it.