Farm Report for May 19

I've finished harvesting the green onions, and have picked what I can of the red onions. The ones that are left are going to seed. Thank goodness I now have a big bed of yellow onions. They're not completely mature, but the bulbs are the size of golf balls, and I'm eating them. When they mature, in about a month, the green top collapses, and the bulb seals itself for dormancy.

The eggplant have been in the ground for over a week, and are doing OK. The rest of May will have some cool nights, cooler than the eggplant likes. That's the thing with gardening, there is always an unknown element, and planting is a gamble. I'll nurse them, and the avocado tree, along as best I can. Everything else is doing very well, with my tomatoes flowering like crazy. I may have tomatoes by July. I still have a second planting of four tomato starters to go in the ground around the first of June.

More Pit Bull Violence

The dogs fought with a stray pit bull, while they were off leash out in the boonies. I didn't see the beginning of the fight, but Halo and Pogi fought as a team and chased it away. Pogi ended up with an ugly gash on his rear leg. It's oozing blood, but it doesn't seem deep. He let me clean it with some antiseptic wipes, and he's walking and running normally. I'll watch him to make sure he's OK.

Pogi is OK, even though I noticed additional punture wounds on his face, and that fucking dog is still lurking around, even though it scuttled away from us this morning. I tried to contact animal control but just got the run-around. The underlying reality is that county is broke, and doesn't want to take care of things like this. When ten of these dogs form a pack, and kill 200 goats, and becomes national news, then they act.