Food Item: Onions
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:22 am
Food Item: Onions
Successful cold storage
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/gist82.html
By Sylvia Gist
(SNIP) ... Planting time and harvest time also affect the success of storage. Many storage vegetables are planted later and harvested after frost. In the following discussion, I will note what works best for me as I deal with a fairly short growing season and cool nights.
-snip- --- FULL article can be found at link, above ---
Onions
Perhaps my favorite vegetable in storage is the onion. The sweet ones have to be eaten in the summer and early fall, but the pungent ones can last until you have the next crop. A couple of long-day hybrids, Copra and Norstar, have worked well for me. I start the seed indoors in February, feed them fish fertilizer, and set tiny plants out in early May. Norstar matures sooner than Copra, but both are narrow necked hard onions of medium size. In August, I quit watering them. ---CONTINUED---
Successful cold storage
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/gist82.html
By Sylvia Gist
(SNIP) ... Planting time and harvest time also affect the success of storage. Many storage vegetables are planted later and harvested after frost. In the following discussion, I will note what works best for me as I deal with a fairly short growing season and cool nights.
-snip- --- FULL article can be found at link, above ---
Onions
Perhaps my favorite vegetable in storage is the onion. The sweet ones have to be eaten in the summer and early fall, but the pungent ones can last until you have the next crop. A couple of long-day hybrids, Copra and Norstar, have worked well for me. I start the seed indoors in February, feed them fish fertilizer, and set tiny plants out in early May. Norstar matures sooner than Copra, but both are narrow necked hard onions of medium size. In August, I quit watering them. ---CONTINUED---