This past spring I cut way back on my habitual excessive
planting, but I did plant a bunch of little top-bulbs made by some shallots
that were suffered to grow in the same piece of ground for…oh, I don’t know how
many years…without being harvested. I had the raised bed space and they were
around, so what the heck.
Well. This is what happens when you plant top-bulbs in a raised
bed: giant shallots. Thus has my vice and ignominy revealed itself to be The One
True Path of Shallots.
The best part is that I forgot about the previously
forgotten shallots (do you see a pattern emerging?), so when I went to pull
that bed of huge onion leaves that was mysteriously thriving out there in the
garden, great was my surprise and delight to find these fat fellows there by the
dozen.
Leave them and they will grow?
ReplyDeleteI am totally saving those little top bulbs again for next year, and if I had not been in such a frenzy of destructive excitement, I would have left a couple of plants in the ground, because I think they mostly make those top bulbs in their second year. Oh well--next time!
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