RE: Onions
- Subject: RE: Onions
- From: M*
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:31:07 -0400
- Importance: Normal
- Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:33:35 -0700
- Resent-From: v*@eskimo.com
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I use drip irrigation with the emitters right next to the original canes
and the garlic is farther away from the emitters so they get much less
water than the raspberries; I can also move the emitters closer or
equidistant to the garlic early in the season. Same with the garlic in
the tomato bed, plus those emitters are adjustable so I can turn them
off completely if necessary.
Mark
korney19 AT adelphia DOT net
http://server3001.freeyellow.com/bowtiesupply/img/garden/
Zone 6a, Buffalo, NY
-----Original Message-----
From: scallop@ce.net [s*@ce.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:34 PM
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
Subject: 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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