Re: Onions

Mark in Buffalo wrote:

>I grow shallots & walking onions between
>these crops, as well as garlic with raspberries.

Now that's interesting, as my experience with garlic interplanted with
raspberries taught me to never repeat this practice:  I was living in
NJ,(zone 7a) and had put in some raspberry canes given me by a friend in the
one small strip of ground I had cleared for a garden at my new place.
Between moving and house repairs and everything else going on, I wasn't
going to have time to clear much more that first spring & summer, but I
wanted to put in a little garlic, and remembered Louise Riotte's book title
"Roses Love Garlic". Ok, great! Raspberries are a member of the rose family,
this should be just the thing! Problem came when the garlic was just
starting to finish and needed dry to begin to cure (mid-July), the
raspberries were fruiting and needed copious amounts of water!

Of course, this year I've got another mistake I won't repeat. For lack of
space and even worse lack of time, I just didn't think it through before
popping plants in whereever they'd fit: I've got cukes & cantaloupes all
mixed up together. Again, a problem of differing needs -- if the cukes don't
get a lot of water they'll be bitter, and if the 'lopes get too much they'll
be flavorless.

I console myself that lessons learned the hard way are more readily
remembered...

(Btw, my first post to the list. I lurk in digest format here in Delaware
when I get time, and today I actually have time to write a reply. Will more
properly introduce myself someday soon...)

Pat
Dover DE
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