• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Home Garden Joy
  • Home
  • How to Garden
    • Seed Starting
    • Plant Profiles
    • Tools & Equipment
    • Raised Bed Gardening
  • Vegetables
  • Fruit
  • Herbs
  • About
    • Books & Classes
      • Herbalism Classes
      • Books for Christian Herbalists
      • Privacy Policy

Can You Really Get Too Much Rain? Part II

July 15, 2013 by Jeanne

Vegetable garden yesterday.

In a word: YES.  You can get too much rain.

I went outside yesterday to harvest the organic onions. I grew yellow skin onions this year.  I’d picked a test one last week and it was delicious – perfect round shape, great taste, not a single sign of bug damage. The four spring root crops are ready for harvest now: beets, onions, garlic and potatoes.  I’d gotten the garlic off to a good start on the drying racks in the garage. Now it was time for the onions.

I took my harvest basket out to the garden and prepared to pull the onions from the bed. I could see the tops of them; baseball sized, perfect. I pulled the flopped, tall stems, green turning brown, another signal that the onions are ready.

And guess what?  The squishy stem pulled right off in my hand. Curious and slightly panicked, I reached into the soil with my bare fingers to touch the top of the onion. And it squished into a blob of stinky onion goo.

Yuck! I couldn’t wipe my fingers on the grass fast enough.

Quickly, I started pulling as many onions as I could salvage. I pulled about six before stopping. Tonight, when the sun moves away from the vegetable garden, I’ll return with a trowel and see what can be salvaged.

The beets and garlic seemed to survive almost 10 days straight of rain showers, but the onions may not have survived.  As for the potatoes, it’s time to harvest some of the first crop. I’m almost scared to look because nothing – and I mean nothing – stinks worse than rotted potatoes.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Previous Post: « Growing Organic Peaches
Next Post: The Difference Between Home Grown and Store Bought Peaches »

Primary Sidebar

Let’s Connect!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram

As Seen in Porch

 As Seen in Porch

We were featured in Porch.com and answered reader's questions about indoor plants.

Explore All Gardening Articles

a closeup of watermelon

Watermelon in the Home Garden

a zucchini growing in a raised bed

Growing Zucchini in Raised Beds

kale growing in a raised bed

Replenishing Raised Bed Garden Soil

raised bed garden

How to Build a Vegetable Garden Using Raised Beds

Herbalism Classes & Supplies

Goods Shop by Herbal Academy – botanically inspired products

Disclosure

Home Garden Joy participates in two affiliate programs: Amazon and The Herbal Academy. Home Garden Joy earns a commission from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate. As an Herbal Academy Associate, HGJ also earns a commission when you sign up for classes or purchase herbs or supplies from The Herbal Academy. Herbal information and recipes on this site are provided for educational purposes only.

Footer

a zucchini growing in a raised bed

Growing Zucchini in Raised Beds

Growing zucchini in raised beds ensures that this prolific vegetable has the best conditions to thrive. You can grow zucchini in pots or containers, but I prefer growing it in raised beds. This is a great vegetable to grow if you have a “black thumb” and kill plastic plants, because it’s hard to grow a…

Read More

a close up of onions

How to Grow Onions in Your Backyard

Wondering how to grow onions? I’ve grown onions here at Seven Oaks Farm in several ways: from “sets” or starter plants and from store-bought onions that sprouted in the bag! Onions don’t require much space, and you can grow a lot for the money you spend on starter plants. Let’s take a look at how…

Read More

butternut squash growing in a raised garden bed

How to Grow Butternut Squash Organically

Learning how to grow butternut squash organically ensures you know how to grow this tasty, nutritious vegetable in your home garden. I’ll share with you some basic information on growing butternut squash, followed by some organic gardening tips that have been helpful for me here at Seven Oaks Farm in dealing with the various pests…

Read More

herbs in a pink dish

How to Make the Perfect Cup of Herbal Tea

Make the perfect cup of herbal tea, right from your own garden! In May, I gave two free talks on how to grow, harvest, dry, and create your very own herbal teas. This lecture proved so popular that I recorded the narration and uploaded it to YouTube. You can view it below: Supplies to Make…

Read More

  • Privacy Policy
  • About
  • Awards

Copyright © 2025 Home Garden Joy on the Foodie Pro Theme