I just went out to my garden to dig the onions

[zxcvbob]

and they are all sprouted again. The freezing weather invigorated them. What do I do now, just dig them and use them like "spring onions"? (I'll have to dig them all before the ground freezes, but that's probably weeks away)

Next year I'm gonna try onion *seeds* again. (These were sets.) And I'll plant the seeds this fall just as the ground freezes so /they/ can decide next spring when to come up instead of me deciding when to plant and invariably being too late.

Bob

P.S. Do I dig my horseradish now, or leave it until early spring? I've never grown it before.

[Gary Woods]

As I understand, any time the plants are dormant is fine.

Well, you're growing it forever now.

Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

[JonquilJan]

Yes that horseradish will be around for years. I had some in a garden on my land across the road. Had to give up that big garden about 20 years ago. Land was used for pigs, then a garden, now a lawn - owners never used the horseradish - but its still there - popping up in their nice smooth lawn - over and over - every year.

JonquilJan

Learn something new every day As long as you are learning, you are living When you stop learning, you start dying

[Omelet]

That's why you are supposed to plant that stuff in a buried pot.

Cabbage worms finally managed to kill my potted one one year. :-(

[ljp other]

I've had sets in the garden for years. I just never got around to using or watering them. I'm in Edmonton and the sets made it through the winter without a problem. I liked the flowers.

[none]

So, that brings a thought to mind... I'm trying to find a garden plant that gophers won't destroy. Would horseradish be a good candidate, or is this the meeting of the irresistible force and the immovable object?

[JonquilJan]

Don't know about gophers - but the woodchucks never bothered the horseradish. Actually they never bother much of anything in that garden. Perhaps because the other side of the 'hedgerow' was a corn field??

JonquilJan

Learn something new every day As long as you are learning, you are living When you stop learning, you start dying