Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
Our weather in SE Wisconsin is moist but not overly so.
We're trying a few new things this year. We planted soy beans and chick peas--we use them so it's an experiment to see if we can grow them.
And we save seeds normally but have a difficult time finding good germination rates on keeper onions. Onion seeds do best the first year after harvesting them but the germination rates plummet fast. This isn't true of tomato and pepper seeds, those keep for many years.
So we took keeper onions (utah yellow spanish and mako) that kept well all the way to May without sprouting, and we planted them in the garden. Onions sprout the flower stalks and flower the second year of life. It looks like we have 25 stalks now. We put in stakes and that helps hold them up. Each flower will give 40-50 seeds. We'll plant those next feb-march in trays, then put them in the garden in may-june. A few hundred onions will get us through next winter. That's our more fun experiment.
I am impressed with your energy. I have formed the opinion that you are a farmer of sorts? I just have to ask.
But what the heck are scapes?