A lot of what I write about in this blog, besides cats, has been about gardening. We’ve had a lot of unexpected challenges, so I’ve been spending a lot of time doing research and watching gardening videos.

Videos like this.

A very useful video about harvesting onions.

So why is this a weird time of year?

Because this video was just published a few hours ago. It’s May 30.

It’s May 30, and he is HARVESTING his onions.

He also has garlic scapes to harvest.

Onions can take anywhere from 90 to 120 days to maturity. Which is why we start our onion seeds indoors earlier than anything else.

We haven’t even transplanted our onions yet. They can handle the cooler nights, but they will be transplanted around and in between other things, not in a bed by themselves.

While our garlic was planted in the fall and is growing quite nicely right now, we probably won’t see scapes for another month.

It’s one thing to reading blogs or watching videos of harvests from people that are living in the southern hemisphere. It’s quite another to see this happening here in the norther hemisphere, and there are SO many channels I follow that are harvesting from huge, lush gardens right now. Even in places with climates that are actually cooler than ours, or at least don’t have our extremes of bitter winters and scorching summers, but have a longer growing season.

It’s downright surreal at times!

The Re-Farmer