03/24/2022
March 24, 2022, our anticipated frost-free date is 2 months away, but Franz bunching onions are above ground and a few inches tall, beside a large plant of perennial thyme, making them this year’s first edible crops. I expect to see garlic break ground any minute now. Allium plants (most onions, leeks, garlic) are like sheepdogs when it comes to cold—it does not bother them at all.
Yesterday I delivered 30 young garlic plants to a gardener who had not planted garlic last fall. With only 3 months left to garlic maturity at the summer solstice, this planting of young garlic is the best chance of a good harvest during 2022.
As soon as you can dig down a few inches, you can be sowing and transplanting Allium. Here, I will be harvesting and eating the Franz (a variety of Welsh bunching onion). Franz is a scallion with no shallot or bulb onion.
Decades ago, I realized that waiting until the frost-free date to plant, coupled with a primarily single late-summer harvest, made for a waste of the huge potential of Nature. I began then, long ago, implementing my ideas of Perennial Edible, always something to eat.
