Spring Onions in a Plot

I use a lot of spring onions in my cooking specially when I am making comfort food or even if the recipe does not call for it, I still use it because we like it. The spring onion sometimes takes the place of the onion bulb in my cooking. If I happen to ran out of onion bulbs, I substitute it with spring onions and it still tastes good. We all like to eat comfort food especially when it is raining. This is the rainy season here now so I cook a lot of hot soups and I add spring onions in my recipes. I also use spring onions when I am making arroz caldo which is one of our favorite comfort food. I like the idea of picking up the fresh spring onions straight from the garden whenever I needed some of it in my cooking.  

My DH is usually the one who does the gardening in our backyard but since he is busy right now, so I took over the garden and planted some spring onions in the smallest plot. My sister bought me a kilo of spring onions in the market as my planting material. We first cut off the upper green leaves and used that for cooking. What was left was only 2 inches of the white stalks from the roots. This is what I used as planting material. I planted them just last week and now we could see some green leaves coming out of the white stems. I used to have some spring onions planted in one corner of the garden but I used them all up which is why I wanted to plant some more so I don't run out of it.

The plot of spring onions and on the right side is the outdoor aviary.

This is the smallest plot in the backyard garden planted with spring onions.

Gardening with Herbs

Parsley

Sweet basil

Rosemary

 

Purple basil and Oregano in the pot at the bottom of the red salvia flowers.

My husband and I sometimes go to the City Orchidarium, this is a plant nursery here in Baguio City, just to look at the flowers and the many different plants that are on display. We both love having flowers around the house and we would sometimes buy them in bulk together with some pots for to be used for re-planting them. Then we would display all the flowers in strategic locations around the house so we could admire them. That particular day that we went to the Orchidarium, I wanted to buy some herbs so I could start my herb garden because I wanted to have some fresh herbs that I could use in my cooking. So we bought one pot for each kind of herbs such as thyme, sage, lavender, mint, sweet marjoram, sweet basil, parsley, oregano, rosemary, fennel, lemon balm, onion leeks or what we call spring onions and pandan.  When we got home, I re-planted them in one of the garden beds and then watered them.

The herbs grew well in the garden bed. My husband bought some name plate and wrote the herbs name on each of them and covered these with plastic then he stuck these to the ground to identify each plant. He made a really good job and it was a pretty sight to see that anyone who comes over for a visit always had something nice to say about our small garden. Then one day, we had a really bad storm and it wiped everything away in the garden. It just kept on raining for days that it saturated the garden beds and caused the herbs to rot. So we decided that the next time we plant some herbs, we will plant them in pots so we could move them around or bring them in under the awning to protect them from the rain.