Onion Talk for year 2022
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Comments (2)Hey Donna, I responded to your question in Southern gardening yesterday but not really about growing full size onions. I haven't done that in a while, but to grow onions, you have to plant in the early spring. As the bulb grows, you sorta rake the dirt away from the onion. Sometimes,it is kinda iffy growing large onions due to rain. I have more trouble with red onions rotting. As far as storing these, we always tie them up with some rattan or jute or some type of string and hang them up. I think you were calling the other kind bunching onions. I wrote back saying my hubby thinks bunching is the same thing as multiplying. You can plant those in spring, summer or fall. Of course, these are usually grown for the green tops. (Just to make sure we are talking the correct onion here) These are the ones that are great to eat with turnip greens and cornbread in the fall and winter. LOL As far as leeks, I have never grown them before. They are much milder than onions. Not sure when to plant those. Fall might be a good time for those too. Good luck! Luv those onions, marie...See MoreI'm ready to talk onions.
Comments (33)Kim, 30 bundles was what I was thinking, and I also was thinking that planting 30 bundles would drive me to the brink of insanity.....not to mention harvesting 30 bundles! I think the most I've ever planted was 9 bundles, and two or three of those bundles were leeks and the small red and small white cipollini types. Of course, I'm not a market grower. This year I am aiming for maybe 3 or 4 bundles. I always grow too many and, as always, I'm trying to cut back. (It is hard for me to successfully cut back on anything since I love to grow things, but I really do try....sometimes....to cut back and then to not relent and rush out and buy more.) Maybe in future years after you've had a chance to get to know your fellow market gardeners better, y'all can do a group onion order in winter, and order and split a couple (or more) cases. Robert, It is so nice to see you here. I hope your recovery from your surgery goes well. I guess you're overworked your body to the point that surgical repair is necessary. That is what happens to someone who is always so busy working all the time! I have wanted to work in the garden all week and haven't managed to do it yet, and things aren't looking good for today either. I've been painting a room upstairs, and having finished it finally yesterday, today I want to start on the adjacent room. It's been 12 years since most of the upstairs rooms were painted and it needs to be done. I figure January is my best shot at getting the painting done before planting time arrives in February, and Tim's not home enough hours in the week to help with easier stuff like painting. I save all the harder tasks that I cannot do for his To Do list. Yesterday's wind was a little bit wicked and it got hot here (79 degrees) so I had a window open to let in fresh air while I was painting that west-facing bathroom and then I had to turn on the AC in the afternoon because it got so hot. To have 79 degrees in January and to not be out in the garden was hard, but then I remembered we had copperhead snakes out last January on warm days and I felt better about being stuck indoors on such a warm winter's day. I can't believe that onion-planting time is almost here. I feel like it is sneaking up on me this year, but the advantage to having raised beds filled with enriched soil is that garden prep takes very little time. I already do have most of the veggie beds cleaned out, but not the flower beds around the perimeter of the garden, so that's where the clean-up work remains to be done. I could plant onions tomorrow if I wanted to because the bed where I'm most likely to plant them is sitting there ready and waiting. Dawn...See MoreTalk to me about onions and garlic
Comments (35)Pre-cut onions always taste soapy to me. I've been meaning to get one of these rocker garlic presses sushipup mentions for my mom, who has issues w/ her hands. They look so much easier & smarter than a garlic press... And what about those mini electric choppers for onions? And FWIW, the way I peel onions is to cut almost all the way through across the bottom and top, then use the cut piece @ the bottom first to rip the skin longitudinally, the do the same @ the top - kind of unzipping the skin, so I can pull it off. Usually, I simply hold the knife still against the cutting board after making the first cut and pull the onion bulb back and away from it to rip the length of the skin, then do the same @ the stem end. Somebody taught me this trick many, many years ago. I hope my description is not too confusing. I found a Martha Stewart video that illustrates the concept w/ pearl & cippolini onions, using a paring knife. & I learned to peel garlic from Jacques Pepin; smash the cloves first w/ the flat side of a large chef's knife - or you can use the bottom of a jar or glass. HTH...See MoreSecond week of June 2022
Comments (36)Lynn, the past two years my neighbor and I have been gardening together, we have two very different ideas about gardening. I like organic matter, he likes chemicals. At this point I can do the gardening in the wildlife garden without him, so I sorta go along with what he wants. I don't mind a few chemicals, but I value organic matter very highly.. At this point I cant get enough organic matter for the wildlife garden anyway, but I think we are going to do more cover crops, or part ways. Last year we used turnips as a cover crop, which worked out for both of us, although they are not my first choice. Neighbor was able to sell turnips for $1.00 a pound, and the greens for $20.00 a bushel, and still had a good supply of organic matter to till into the soil. I can see you wanting a cover crop, or adding compost every year, that is what I do in my two home gardens, and trying to work toward that in the wildlife garden, but my goal there is a little different. I just pulled out a soil test that I had done in 2020, I had forgotten about that test. Arkansas has changed their test a little, but it is still enough like the old test that I can compare. The last test was of the north garden only, because I had peppers doing less than I wanted. My guess is that the peppers may have had a disease or too much nitrogen. I have not planted that area yet this year. The test does not show nitrogen, but PH is 6.6 Phosphorus was 158 optimum is 36 to 50 PPM potassium was 224 optimum is 131 to 175 PPM zinc was 21.9 optimum is 4.1 to 8 PPM These three elements are the ones that are most out of whack, but I still grow some vegetables very well. I tried growing corn to try to lower these elements, which seemed to help, but really all I was doing was feeding critters. Every critter in the country will stand in line to eat your corn. The notes on the test still stated 2 lbs of urea, and no legumes. I dont understand most of the stuff on the test, but I think that the garden being too wet early in the year causes me most of my problems....See MoreHU-422368488
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