my very first onion and harvest, braided with a pic,

[bretty666]

hi all i just thought first i would figure out how to put a pic on here as im not too bright with computers. and i wanted to show you all my very first harvest,(i am very proud of my new found love of gardening) i have red and yellow/white onions and garlic ,i saw a few vids on utube on how to braid stuff up, so all in all im happy i dont know the varieties of what i planted as my enthusiasm to grow outweighed my interest in techinal side of things, im just happy i made some stuff grow, only 2 garlic rotted a bit ion the ground out of about 30??? and a few onions out of maybe 40? i have left a few in the ground as they were still strong and upright? what should i do with the area that they came out of? iv definately got the gardening bug! i love it

[veggiechicken]

Looks lovely Bretty - well done

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

They look great, esp for a first go. Mine went in late, I hope I have enough decent onions to braid some! No garlic for me this year. gonna get some started in October though.

Will be searching youtube later!

[Tripmeup]

Well done Bretty..
You could try some late carrots or turnips/ swedes in there now if you wanted...

[bretty666]

thanks all , i have turnips already between my rows of sweetcorn as the packet said 90cm between rows but i recently discovered this is too much, so i intercropped (oh yeh, i have gardening books too now! a present for fathers day off the kids!) with turnips, but i do love swede so i think i will give it a go;
i put nearly everything in the ground mid march'ish so the garlic was a tad small, but my onions were ok, and now my boy likes onions so thats a bonus, he hasnt liked them since birth but now at nearly 7yrs old he has seen them growing and asked to taste them and he likes them, everyones a winner, i will definately plant double next year though, carrots are only 99 cents a kilo over here so i dont think they would be "worth" growing?

[Pa Snips]

Very impressive, I don't seem to have much luck with onions so well done!

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

It's great when the kids take an interest. My little un is a liability in the garden - but, if he knows it was grown in the garden and has seen it/been involved/helped pick it - he will give it a chance and try it.

Tomatoes and cucumbers are a given - if allowed he will decimate the lot. I think he gets that from his mother.

[WilliamD]

Brilliant Bretty. Well done. :-)

[bretty666]

got the rotavator out and went over the patch, got some seeds in my pocket carrots (i got some seeds so i thought why not!) and some mâche (i think in english that it is water cress? valerianella locusta?) just need some swedes now! the soil was really nice to? but i got rained off by a thunderstorm