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Every time you feel in God's creatures something pleasing and attractive, do not let your attention be arrested by them alone, but, passing them by, transfer your thought to God and say: "O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!
- Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

You can’t get to joy by making everything perfect. You can only get there by seeing in every imperfection all that’s joy.
-Ann Voscamp

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Pulling Onions


The girls pulling Hattie and Dani's onions. The tiny plants next to the onions are chard and arugula.



Helping with the big onion patch.



Hattie and Dani hauled them in the wagon. Of course, pulling a carrot for a snack was necessary.



Two of the onions grew like garlic bulbs, with these little "onion set" like babies. I don't know yet why two of them grew this way. I'm going to have to look into it. There's so much that I don't know yet!



And here are a couple pics of the harvest. I've been using onions from the garden for a month now. It's so fun being able to go out and pull one up when you need it! Now I have to figure out how to store these away. I really don't have a cool dry place to hang them. I have no idea yet what I'll do with them.




I was getting a bit discouraged about the garden, and the onions were ready so I just had harvest them. I really needed something encouraging to do! The turnips will be next. Some of them are bigger than baseballs now. I'm thrilled with how well and how fast they grew. Too bad I didn't plant more of them. The tomatoes are really growing fast (the heat of the last couple weeks really had a dramatic effect). I don't know if they'll grow fast enough to ripen, but I'm thrilled they've gotten this far. Now I have quite a bit of space in the garden, but I don't know if there's anything I can do with it now, or if I should just leave it until spring.
That's all the info. I have now, but I'll try to post some pics of how things are looking soon.
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  1. ErinAugust 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM

    Many people pull the onions and leave them on top of the soil just laying there for a day or so to "sun-cure" the skins quickly, then hang. I definitely don't have anywhere cool to cure them so I think shade is sufficient. I just tied them in groups and hung them in the shade on the deck, you could probably do well in your barn area. The onions look GREAT - congrats!!

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  2. Mama PeaAugust 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM

    Nice sized onions! Mine are still languishing in the garden. Must get them out and drying soon.

    But I've been using so many for every day cooking and making Bread and Butter Pickles, I may not have many LEFT for winter use!

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