Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

At 07:25 PM 7/19/2008, you wrote:

> We're thinking onions today because we pulled the first few dozen to 
> start curing in the shade for market soon. We disagree with some of 
> the below experts; with red onions we do bend them over to speed up 
> top drying before harvesting. Interesting, today Emeril said he 
> can't understand why Americans don't prefer red onions all the time 
> since they do in Europe. Well, we do focus on Old World varieties 
> for several vegetables. And couldn't get better results in every way.

Have you ever let some of your onions bolt, and then planted the seed 
the next year? I don't mind buying sets--in this part of the country, 
they're available year round in the supermarkets. But I don't want to 
be restricted to planting from someone else's work.

Liz in SW VA
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