{"id":11272,"date":"2016-03-17T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=11272"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:38","slug":"opening-act-taters-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/opening-act-taters-onions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opening Act: Taters &#038; Onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening act for this year&#8217;s garden was to plant onion seed and seed potatoes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11273\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160607072311\/http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tater-Box-04-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Tater Box 04\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>The onion seed was harvested from some onions I allowed to go to seed last year. I did not plant in neat, orderly, well spaced rows this time. I scattered the seed liberally (I have plenty!) and will harvest many of the young plants as green onions to attain proper spacing for the mature onions.<\/p>\n<p>The seed potatoes, too, were kept from last year&#8217;s crop: those too small to do much else with. I put them in a box of dry wood chips (my surface planer makes small chips ideal for this). I closed up the box and tucked it away in a cool, dark spot for the winter.<\/p>\n<p>When I opened it this week and sifted carefully through the chips for the spudlets, I found most of them had just started to sprout: perfect timing!<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I planted potatoes in a deep raised bed in a more or less traditional manner. But to accomplish crop rotation that means moving add-on box sections and shuffling soil around \u2013 or (eventually) making all my garden boxes \u201cdeep\u201d boxes. This year I decided to jump on board with the current fad in potato growing: wire bins.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grit.com\/farm-and-garden\/vegetables\/opening-the-garden-with-potatoes-and-onions-zb0z1603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening act for this year&rsquo;s garden was to plant onion seed and seed potatoes. The onion seed was harvested from some onions I allowed to go to seed last year. I did not plant in neat, orderly, well spaced rows this time. I scattered the seed liberally (I have plenty!) and will harvest many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/opening-act-taters-onions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Opening Act: Taters &#038; Onions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-11272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20333,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions\/20333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}