Went to my favorite store today! Not one that most of the girly girls like...but one that really speaks to me. I remember going here occasionally as a child with one of my parents, and it is diffinately a time warp thing for me. The store itself has evolved a bit and no longer sells chicken feed, but if I only had a picture of the antique drawers that are faced with beautiful and colorful vegetables pictures. LOVE IT THERE! I especially love it when I get someone fun to wait on me. My favorite is the guy who is probably in his fifties, with slicked back hair who tells a story about each vegetable and what his indian grandmother would do with it! Now he is a wealth of knowledge!
Well I didn't get "Slick" today, but I got a woman who was very friendly and was passing out hugs to the other workers. I could tell she loved her job ... such a nice feeling.
So the picture is of some of the onion plants they sell there. Better watch out they go fast. I got a little back ground on these plants from one of my favorites in the area. Fred grows the biggest onions ever! When fall arrives he ties the tops of a couple of them together and hangs them from the trees in his back yard to dry out. Then he stores them where his wife doesn't smell them. In the spring of the next year he takes a few down to Anderson's so they can put them with the onion plants....and when people see the size of them the bundles of plants seem to walk out of the store on their own (at least that is the way he tells the story).
Fred's daughter Barbie is also wonderful. It is so fun to go to her yard ... she has taken gardening to the extreme. She has a plant in her house that she has had since she was about 12. Because she is about 50 you can tell that this is one girl with a green thumb.
Well Barbie told me to buy the onion plants then fill a tub about 4 inches with potting soil and place the onion plants in the soil standing up about 1 1/2 to 2 inches in depth. This gets the onions starting to grow roots and when the soil in the garden finally warms up you can transplant them directly out there. I did this last summer and I must say that I had pretty wonderful success, to the tune of we are still using onions from the garden and they will probably last us through June or so.
So to all you gardeners, take a hike to Anderson's Seed and Garden store. It will remind you of times past with great people. But don't wait until May 20th when everyone else in the valley will be there trying to get what they want. It is really a store with a following ... and I'm proud to say I'm one of them!
