My modest onion harvest

gixxerific · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:17 pm

Not the greatest but these are from Lowe's a lot of them came out small. Just wait until you see my Candy onions (not from Lowe's) those suckers are big. I am so excited this is my best onion year ever. Oh yeah my carrot thinning made it into the pic as well. Anyone need carrots I have hundreds of them.

This is actually turning out to be a great year so far last year was horrid as some of you remember.

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orgoveg · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:28 pm

Nice! I would be really happy with those onions.

applestar · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:29 pm

Looking GOOD! Your kids are going to love the carrots. maybe share a couple with the pup as well

The onions are for the grownups!

BrianIllinois · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:30 pm

Dandy onions.
I'm guessing someone's gonna have a big, grilled burger this weekend, with a fat, sweet slice of onion.

applestar · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:32 pm

Gixx might need to stock up on breath mints.

gixxerific · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:32 pm

BrianIllinois wrote:Dandy onions.
I'm guessing someone's gonna have a big, grilled burger this weekend, with a fat, sweet slice of onion.

It's fathers day how about a Porterhouse and grilled shrimp with onions.

TZ -OH6 · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:32 pm

We need a "green with envy" emoticon. Mine all together would look like a sickly bunch of supermarket green onions.

Is that a real coon hound in the background, or just a red dog?

gixxerific · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:36 pm

applestar wrote: Gixx might need to stock up on breath mints.

C'mon how's about a big oniony, galrlicy smooch Apple.

gixxerific · Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:38 pm

TZ -OH6 wrote:We need a "green with envy" emoticon. Mine all together would look like a sickly bunch of supermarket green onions.

Is that a real coon hound in the background, or just a red dog?

That is Lucy my American Pit Bull Terrier.
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I just love this dog.

DoubleDogFarm · Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:29 pm

Them's some nice lookin onions there. Candy is a sweet onion, Yes? Not a storage onion?

Eric

gixxerific · Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:35 pm

Interesting DDF I heard from the Bajou Gardener they are good keepers. He is an old skool backwoods farmer. I am totally looking forward to how they do since they all went to flower.

garden5 · Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:48 pm

Wow, Gix! That's a great harvest!

When did you plant them?

I planted mine at the end of Apr. and they haven't even started bulbing yet.

DoubleDogFarm · Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:54 pm

Territorial gives them a Fair storing ability. That's sounds good to me.

Eric

orgoveg · Sat Jun 18, 2011 8:28 pm

garden5 wrote: I planted mine at the end of Apr. and they haven't even started bulbing yet.

I got mine in the ground early April and they've barely started bulbing. St. Louis is further south than us, so I guess that makes a difference.

gixxerific · Sat Jun 18, 2011 8:43 pm

Hopefully these will do good DDF.

G5 My long lost onion buddy.

I put these in late March early April I can't remember. You should see my other onions. I will by from them again I can tell you that.

I should add (especially for you G5

) I had a few rows of onions I seeded and well they are nowhere to be seen. They all died but the set and plants I put in are doing good to great.

jal_ut · Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:48 pm

Nice onions!

gixxerific · Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:22 am

jal_ut wrote:Nice onions!

Thanks some of them are pretty big for red onions. I don't even know the variety they were just labeled as "red Onions"

jal_ut · Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:41 am

Great Harvest!

I like the red ones on sandwiches.

garden5 · Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:54 am

gixxerific wrote:Hopefully these will do good DDF.

G5 My long lost onion buddy. I put these in late March early April I can't remember. You should see my other onions. I will by from them again I can tell you that.

I should add (especially for you G5 ) I had a few rows of onions I seeded and well they are nowhere to be seen. They all died but the set and plants I put in are doing good to great.

I remember last year's onion experiments. I wasn't able to start any from seed this year, so I just bought some plants from the store (walla walla). To be honest, the store-bought plants outperformed the home-started ones last year anyway. I think I need to start mine earlier so that they are larger when they go in.

I'm looking forward to seeing your other, big ones.

BP · Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:39 pm

gixxerific wrote:Interesting DDF I heard from the Bajou Gardener they are good keepers. He is an old skool backwoods farmer. I am totally looking forward to how they do since they all went to flower.

I'm a member over there too. The Bayou Gardener (Donald) has a slicer and slices most of his candy onions and freezes them. I think they grow better the farther south you go.

gixxerific · Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:38 pm

BP wrote:
gixxerific wrote:Interesting DDF I heard from the Bajou Gardener they are good keepers. He is an old skool backwoods farmer. I am totally looking forward to how they do since they all went to flower.
I'm a member over there too. The Bayou Gardener (Donald) has a slicer and slices most of his candy onions and freezes them. I think they grow better the farther south you go.

I saw that and it is a pretty good idea. What he does is he has a dicer that he dices a bunch of onions than freezes them. That seems pretty handy whenever you need onion just reach in and grab a handful and walla semi fresh onions still better than the store bought ones. I may try that this year and see how it works. I use onions in everything that would be great for me.

VeggieGardenGal · Tue Jun 24, 2014 1:57 am

Your onions look great to me. Very Nice

mattie g · Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:45 am

Great looking dog, gixx!

And the onions are nice, too...