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23 Comments

  1. Sending love to you, your mom and your family. Great to see mom, hope she's having a nice growing season! 💕🌱💕

  2. I always pulled my onions . Put them in a big box over night if need be then tied the onions in bunches of 10 . Then bent the green tops 1/2 way and put a rubberband around them then tied a string around the bunch and ties them to special portable clothes rack and stored them in my garage,/saved space and did the trick.

  3. I would have cut the green tops off and chopped and freeze dried them and use them for soups or baked potatoes

  4. I started cutting, dicing and slicing my onions and freezing them in gallon baggies. Makes cooking supper easier too.

  5. I wonder, do you freeze your onions? I have no way to store cured onions for long term but have had onions freeze perfectly for me for the last 6-7 years without fail. Always nice to grab a bag of onions and toss it in the pan on a quick dinner night!

  6. Watched a YouTube gardening channel where they compared onions left alone and onions that had been pruned – the ones that were pruned actually produced the smaller bulbs. And the logic makes sense – the plant is using the energy from the sun on the leaves to go into making the bulbs, so if you decrease the amount of leaf area available for photosynthesis, you reduce the amount of plant energy available to make the bulbs. I have also observed that cutting off scapes from my garlic does not affect the size and I talked to a professional garlic grower once and he said that the scape thing makes no difference. We assume there is an appreciable amount of energy being detoured from bulb development into scape/seed development, but it is just as possible that those big garlic plants have plenty of energy to accomplish both. I have seen experiments with this go both ways, but I often don't clip my scapes, except to eat sometimes, and I get huge heads, mainly I think because I always save the largest heads to plant bulbs from in the fall and that seems to be the determining factor with garlic growing – the size of the bulbs you begin with when you are planting them out. I have tried several times to start my onions from seed, and it just doesn't seem to work no matter how deep the cells/cups, how nice the soil, how regularly they are fertilized – they are always tiny compared to what I can buy at the nursery. Think I might give up on that and save myself the grief next year.

  7. So I got some red onion starts and planted them and they flowered before the bulb got very big. Are you saying I can cut the flowers off now and they’ll grow onions, or is it too late?

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