At this point in the season, it’s looking like 2025 will be a good year for alliums. The onions and shallots are heading up, with less evidence of mildew than they’ve exhibited the past few years. The leeks are also growing nicely, as they patiently await their mid-summer compost dressing.
The garlic we harvested Saturday produced clean, mostly good-sized bulbs, after providing some succulent green garlic from extra cloves planted last fall and a full set of scapes. The scallions had fantastic germination and are steadily reaching for the sky.
The (new this year) garleek has given us a beautiful, trouble-free green-garlic-like crop, with more to come. The onion sets are looking particularly robust, and the Egyptian walking onions provided delicious green onions in spring.
The chives (common, garlic, and Asian) are doing well in the herb beds. Even our leftover sets and seedlings (tucked into the winter squash bed) have given us welcome green onion harvests over several weeks.
Photos (top to bottom): onions, leeks, scallions, harvests of green onions & garleek, and Egyptian walking onions.
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