Egyptian walking onions, also called tree onions, belong to the allium genus. They prefer growing in full sun, are extremely hardy and easy to grow. . . .
While I probably ate more local food for the week as a total last week, I never did get around to posting a fully local meal. THIS week I am relying on a Greek dish made with zucchini, local eggs and onions from the garden. We are all looking for good zucchini solutions this time of year. In addition to this weeks Greek offering and the ones I have listed from past years, here is a new recipe that I served last week that was well received as a backyard appetizer when sliced into bite size pieces. . ..
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Posted by Leslie Reblogged by Old Roses to onions, recipes on 2008-08-14, 07:45:33
I pulled all of my onions a couple days ago. I have noticed other gardeners are drying theirs in their gardens, though with all the rain, I'm not sure why. So I have half my crop on a counter in my kitchen (bottom left photo) and the rest in the sun in my garden (top photo). I'm hoping to find Gino in his garden (his onions are the bottom right photo) so I can ask him if its important to leave them outside.
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Posted by kathy Reblogged by Old Roses to onions on 2008-08-07, 06:16:20
Last spring, I had some sprouting onion starts not yet in the ground. I tucked them in among the small tomatoes and forgot about them as the tomatoes took over. During the tomato row clean up this fall, I displaces some of the onion bulbs and just thought I'd try again another year.
Now I see onions sprouting throughout the garden (I forgot some of the places I stashed them)! I'll see how they do over the winter rather than my too late planting in the spring. They don't seem mind the frosty nights at all.
A few days ago I rec’d some Potato Onions that I had ordered this spring ago. When I ordered them I knew they wouldn’t be shipped till fall and they came just a couple of days before I had planned on planting them, Woo hoo, perfect timing. I guess the company (Southern Exposure [...]
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on Nov 25, 2007, 9:20PM
Posted by kerry Reblogged by Old Roses to onions on 2007-11-27, 00:17:19
It seems just about everybody has the snuffles. I didn’t help myself by going to the nearby brewery to indulge on the last nomi nodai; drink as much as you like. Our party proved why it would be a commercial disaster in our own country. As a result, I doubt we will be well received. . .
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Idag har det verkligen varit en sådan där novemberdag man inte gillar. Runt nollan på termometern, snöfall nästan horisontellt och lite blåst. Jag ville inte sätta näsan utanför dörren i dag på min lediga dag. Jag tog och dammade av min 25 år gamla kokbok 'Den franska maten' letade reda på en gammal favorit, gratinerad löksoppa. Nu gick jag i alla fall ut till min potager och hämtade timjan till min soppa och sedan till 'veboa' för lite ved till järnspisen och kakelugnen. Soppan blev jättegod, dessutom värmer både soppan och kakelugnen värmer mej fortfarande. Mysigt!
From France Potage d’oignon. This is how I do it. 2 tablespoon butter or olive oil 6 large onion, thinly sliced 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 75cl chicken/beef broth 1/2 cup white wine 1 1/2 cups water 1 Bay leaves and Thyme 4 slices French bread 1 cup shredded Swiss cheese Salt and pepper
These are my onions that I planted in the Kitchen Garden back on May 21. Poor things look like they can't breathe. I'm assuming that I didn't plant these right, or didn't thin them when I should have or something. This can't be what they are suppose to look like. . .
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Posted by Gina Reblogged by Old Roses to onions on 2007-07-12, 06:11:03
I'm giggling as I type this... I can't help but think that all of you who read my blog must be sitting there thinking, "I can't wait until this girl goes back to working 70 hours a week so she doesn't have so much time to post!" *grin*
Today is a great day. It's nice outside. It might rain later on tonight and into tomorrow. But at least it's rain and not snow. It's warm, about 50 degrees outside right now. That is a temperature I can handle well. But I don't really feel like being outside. In the sun, it seems hotter and maybe that is what it is. But I did manage to get something done. I planted a few onion sets. . . .
Late last autumn, I was digging out a few of the 'Fuldaglut' and 'Voodoo' sedums from the Japanese rock garden to use as edging in another bed when I made a discovery: Three strays that had escaped the onion harvest. I wasn't too surprised by this find--after all, the red onion skins were about the same color as the sedum leaves, so the oversight was understandable. I made a mental note to come back and dig them before I went inside for the night.
Fast forward to... okay, well, this week. I am in the backyard taking the usual spring pictures: Groundbreaking buds of peony bushes, an amazing number of atriplex hortensis seedlings, etc. Out of the corner of my eye, I catch sight of several jaunty spears of green. Onion green, to be exact. . . .
What’s a Potato Onion you ask? Well it’s definitely not a potato, not even distantly related to those starchy tubers. No, it’s not some weird genetic cross between a potato and an onion. Potato onions are actually a type of onion that has more in common with a shallot than either a potato or an [...]
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Posted by Kenny Point Reblogged by Old Roses to onions on 2007-03-02, 23:59:44
This past weekend, I had the occasion to use some pearl onions in a recipe. The recipe will be forthcoming, but not until later in the month. However, in preparation, let me offer some Inadvertent Gardener words of cooking wisdom.
Do not stand in your kitchen trying to individually peel your pearl onions. Just don’t do it. There are better ways, people. . .
When I think about February, I think about Valentine's Day. And that makes me think of love and flowers and... chocolate. Not... onions. But my friend Albertino, who has a neighboring plot at the community garden, said, "You plant these now and you'll be picking onions in February!"
I don't doubt him.
Albertino grows loads of onions in his plot, plus all sorts of everything else. Cole crops,
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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to onions on 2006-11-03, 16:37:09
Onion tops on the dehydrator. I made shish kabobs on the grill this weekend and pulled some onions from the garden to put on the skewers. Never being one who likes to waste, I chopped up the tops and dried them for use later in the year.
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Posted by Kathi Reblogged by Old Roses to onions on 2006-06-26, 22:53:28
Realization Of The Day: Early morning is deifnitely my favorite time of day in the garden. Morning dew, the cheerful chirping of birds, sleepy sunshine waking up, poking about to see what went on in the darkness, daydreams and endless possibilities. . .
Mornings are my favortie too!
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Which will be better onions - those grown from seed or from sets?
To settle this dilema, this year we shall be growing one onion from seed (Red Baron) - and one from sets (Snowball). The sets arrived in Feburary and were planted in multi-purpose compost in pots on the 8th, the seeds were sown in March in the heated greenhouse.
So place your bets now....
Does anyone have any experiences to share?
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