I love how the onions stand up like little soldiers in the field. This year we are growing eight varieties of onions. We decided to try onions by seed this year because the quality is supposed to be so much better. It is a lot more work and much more time consuming so I hope it is worth it. We did plant some sets just in case. We know we had really good luck with them in prior years.
In the springtime we will offer scallions or green onions, during the early summer we will offer new onions that are delicious as kabobs on the grill (and the perfect size), late summer will bring onions for slicing to put a sweet crunch on your hamburgers and the fall will bring sturdy storage onions to last the winter. That’s if you don’t eat them first!
Onions are classified as long day, short day and medium day. The day length affects the onions ability to bulb. We grow long day (which requires 14 to 16 hours of daylight) varieties because in the north our day length is longer.
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The onion soldiers look beautiful! I’m starting to get excited! My Grandma taught me to start the onion cooking in the pan while contemplating dinner to make the house smell delicious. The thought of doing that with Four Friends Farms onions is so good!
No roots to start with. These are the normal blog-standard spinrg onions that you buy at the supermarket, kept together in a bunch with a rubber band (elastic band). No roots. They root when you put them in a glass of water takes about a week for the roots to appear. So, buy the spinrg onions as usual at the supermarket. Cut as you usually do until you almost reach the white bit, leaving just a tiny bit of the green. Now put the remaining bit (the white bottom with a bit of green at the top) into a glass of cool water, and set it somewhere bright (but not direct hot sun). In about a week, the roots will appear. A week after that the green will start growing. When the green bit’s grown back to its original height, use it again, chop-chop-chop and then stick it back into the glass of water to re-grow more green. Does that make sense now? Shall I make more photos?