Saturday 31 December 2011
Our understanding of things is that onions are a long season, cool weather crop which needs darkness to develop the bulb, and one out of three isn't going to cut it. Instead, we grow bunching onions, which grow very well and allow us to chop them up finely for all sorts of seasoning. Bunching onions, as the writing on the seeds from Evergreen Seeds states, are "strong resistant [sic] to cold weather." They ain't kidding. No matter how crappy the weather, and that's just about all the time around here, these vegetables keep producing really well.
No doubt I've been experimenting with bunching onions since moving to Galena, because I have a huge number of seed packets going back to 2002 with a dozen different varieties. One of the reasons for this webpage is to remake this motley collection and turn it into something useful for other folks in similar climates. Next year, certainly.
Summer 2011
A series of distasters, one after the other. First, the seed tape that I made in the spring didn't come up in the summer. Then the seeds were planted either too late, or the seeds were too old, or something, but we got nothing from the bulb onions (not surprising) and nothing from the bunching onions (a real surprise.) Next year for these guys.