“I really got a tremendous kick out of using our own onions all winter long. “
I had hoped to do that, but all my walking onions died a winter ago. This past winter I had some onions a local gardener friend gave me, and I was tickled the other day to see them greening up and that they had survived!
Maybe next winter I can actually have enough to draw from over the cold months!
We had yellow onions and red onions from sets. Ran out at the end of December. Same with the potatoes. We had Butte Russet, Dakota Pearls, Kennebec, and mystery russets leftover from the grocery store that had sprouted so much that we decided to just plant them and see what would happen.
They grew just fine, and made just as good a crop as the ones we had purchased. The Buttes and Dakotas were from egg sized potatoes that I harvested in the fall of 2013 and planted in Spring 2014. They produced well too.
I remember feeling so satisfied when I made a chili using our own tomato sauce, onions and garlic. :)
Sad thing is that a lot of the veg we processed and froze my husband can’t eat because he is doing that Atkins diet.
Please tell me how to kill the walking onions; mine have survived -35F, without mulching, and are multiplying beyond all reason! ;-)