Onion snow

There is a tradition among the Pennsylvania Dutch that you don’t start planting your onions until after a snowfall, usually in early April.  This snowfall, called the “onion snow,” generally melts the same day it falls.  

This entire winter we have had less than five inches of snow.  I don’t think we will have any more, and I have 100 yellow, 100 red, and 100 white onion sets sitting in the cellar.  I’m not waiting.  Tomorrow I’m planting them.