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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

They were from RH Shumway.  02791A Yellow Sweet Spanish.  I still have a lot 
of seeds left and will be starting some of them indoors this weekend.  

Some of them I grew in a plastic baby pool filled with dirt & compost.  I 
planted them too close together I think, and those came out about 1/2 the 
diameter of the ones I planted in the garden a bit further apart.  

I'm probably having beginners luck........ I'm still eating watermelon that I 
harvested back in October.  I just put them on a wooden board in the garage 
in a cool spot.  It probably never gets over 45 these days where they're 
sitting.  Still eating squash too, which are sitting next to the melons.  I 
had no idea that I wouldn't have to can or freeze some off this stuff.  Even 
though the onions were indoors, they've been kept fairly cool also, as I only 
use enough heat to keep the temps from freezing inside.  Guess my nordic 
heritage is coming thru.... nahhh, it's Bev's fault for posting about the 
laplanders living without heat in the artic.... in skin tents to boot.  If 
they could do it, I can too.

The seed catalogs are coming in, and I feel like a kid in a candy shop..... 
wanting to try planting so many different things.  I did call one of the 
companies today, and they sent me a list of the seeds that are provided by my 
personal "ban" list.  

I  have no idea if I even purchased a good variety or a bad one, as I had 
ordered my seeds before I had even heard of "heirloom" or anything else that 
is posted here.

I've been able to harvest some seeds from the easy things (curcubits & 
peppers) for next year.  I'm buying new seed just in case I didn't do 
something right, as a backup plan.

I need to figure out where to harvest seeds from some things... like carrots. 
 I never noticed any seeds on the plants.  


I have potatoes with eyes on them sprouting too.  I hope they hang in there 
until it is time to plant in the spring.  I haven't been eating them on 
purpose for seed.


I do hope it warms up a bit this weekend so I can do some cleanup and prep 
work in the gardens.  It's been colder than it was last year that is for sure.

Are you getting rain/snow your way this winter?  I've been wondering if 
you're getting enough to help recharge your well.  We had 4-5" here not too 
long ago.  The soil just under the surface is still wet from when it melted.  
I couldn't believe the broccoli was still growing afterwards,,,,, except I 
forgot to close the garden gate, and the rabbits..... well they got a nice 
green new years present.





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From: Sage Austin | Eureka! Design <eureka AT hctc.net>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wed, January 6, 2010 11:28:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] onion question

Leslie, onions are considered biennial, so they would need to be in the 
ground two years to set seed. If you are down into the teens like us, 
this wouldn't be a good time to replant your sprouting onion...I'd wait 
until the coldsnap passes if they have been kept inside at a warmer temp.

If you got an onion to keep for 6 months that's pretty good IMO for your 
location. What variety of onions did you grow? Since we are in the 
short-day area our onions are full of sugar and don't keep longer than 
2-3 months. I have to dehydrate quite a few.

--Sage



Leslie wrote:
> I had a successful onion crop last year.  I cut up some of the onions and 
> froze them in freezer bags during the summer, used many, and stored the 
> rest dry in typical onion type bags from the grocer.  I harvested the bulk 
> of them at the end of July (about 3" to 4" in diameter), dried them, cut 
> off the greens, etc. and then put half of them in a dark area that gets 
> air, and the other half in partial low light with air.  Most of the time 
> stored the temps have ranged from 70-40 degrees.
>
> It is 6 months after harvest, and I have noted that some have started to go 
> bad, others are shooting out new roots and new growth.
>
> I've chopped up and salvaged all but two onions.
>
> The remaining two  - subject of this query -  have new white root shoots, 
> and about 3" or so of greens shoots coming out the top.  
>
> Should I just eat them, or can I plant them?
> Will they grow into onions this year and give me seeds???  (None of them 
> seeded last year, these were grown from seed,)
>
> Overnight temps are down in the low 20s to teens, and I have straw mulch if 
> that helps.
>
> I would lilke to attempt to harvest onion seed this year.  Last year I 
> didn't get any flowers.
>
>
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> >Day time temps range from 45-65 here, but overnight has been going
> before 32 degrees most nights.... figure the would  needs deep mulch and 
> maybe
> plastic overnight????

I had forgotten that you are in a warmer clime than most of us who are now
in a deep freeze.

Onions aren't all that cold sensitive.  If your temps are staying above the
mid 20's at night by all means plant the onion outside.


James</HTML>