What's New: My Plentiful Green Onions

Perhaps I should report that the company I expected last Wednesday came on Tuesday afternoon instead, just an hour and a half after my RoseBouquet went out. I had about half an hour to clear my table, find some snacks to serve with tea, and to change my top.

They were here from 2-4 pm. We had a lively visit, and it was good to catch up somewhat with them, but after they left, I realized I had not asked nearly enough questions. Oh-well...

This week I've been trying to get my garden cleaned up so the man with the rototiller can come work up the soil in time for next Monday, when I hope to do most of the seeding. My ESL friend, Sandy asked me on Sunday if I would need help with the garden again.

I told her it depended on whether I got the weeds cleaned up, and whether this man would have time to till it for me this week yet.

I've been trying to put in an hour after the day's dishes are done (about 6:30 going on 7 - 8 pm) on my outdoor work. It was cool, windy and overcast yesterday and the radio news was full of the smoke from the forest fires in the north bothering us. I didn't smell any, but it was harder to work in that weather.

The problem to deal with was all the green onions that have sprung up all over the garden! I like to keep them close to the fences on the east & west sides, but I could see that if these young plants would be tilled into the soil an even bigger crop would come up later!

I did have one bright idea. I've received a lot of the pots that have large drainage holes, from friends & cousin Gary, who think I could use them. But those pots are not good for indoor plants. I would have puddles every time I watered the plants. But I have not thrown them out.

It occurred to me that I could spade up these younger plants, and drop them into these pots and bring them to the front of my yard, right next to the sidewalk so that those who pass by may help themselves and carry away as many as they wish.

I got inside after 8 pm so I made the poster this morning, laminated it, and then wheeled the wheelbarrow to the front, and placed my poster, which says,

FREE
SPRING GREEN ONIONS
Take as many as you can carry away!

Last summer I tried this with some boxes of empty jars, and by the end of the day they were all gone!

Let's hope that happens today with the onions.

Incidentally, I found a recipe online which can use up an armload of green onions. I'll try it out before I offer it to you, but you may find it in the RoseBouquet next week.

Apparently, green onions are great for your digestive system. I've put hands full of chopped green onion into a soup before, but not as the main ingredient.

If you should live within driving distance do know that you are invited to come get your own armloads full of green onions. At this time of year they are still quite tender. Later they will be bigger and somewhat tougher to chew.

You may have as many plants as you want!

They also freeze well, so you can enjoy them all year round too!

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The Extra Senses of a Dog

While researching something else I came across a YouTube video about the extra 6th Sense that a Dog has. Did you know that?

The video is not done professionally; I found mistakes in the narrator's reading, but if the facts he expounded are true, dogs have some amazing abilities. I won't try recite them for you. (I'd have to watch it again and take notes.)

If you have a dog, or have had one in the past, you may already know some of these things - but can they really see and hear 20 different things we humans cannot? It would be good to get some confirmation of these things.

Here is the link: 20 Things Your Dog Can See & Feel But YOU CAN'T | The Sixth Sense of Animals <

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