Comments on: Consider the onion* http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/ This is a journal, of sorts, of an organic garden in SW Michigan. "Ut sementem feceris, ita metes: non semper erit aestas." Tue, 29 May 2012 17:42:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tammie http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2459 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:30:11 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2459 I dice them up. I have not experienced the hardness- yet. Now I will have to go out and munch one whole just to see…

]]> By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2434 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:03:52 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2434 Well Stacie get busy with the seeds then! Otherwise Territorial Seeds still has plants on order: check it out here

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/1348/s

Harris Seed also has plants.

]]> By: Stacie http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2431 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:54:38 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2431 great info El!! I grow several rows of onions, and shallots are great, 1 or 2 are perfect for a meal. Leeks, hmmm… need to grow those!

]]> By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2405 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:24:18 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2405 Hayden: I thought it was absolutely crazy that here in the Fruit Belt there are next to no farmers’ markets! Can you believe that? And the ones that are here are…not exactly inventive affairs. So before you move back, you should practice your DIY skillz!

Tammie, how funny. We of course have them too. I only experimented with them the first year we moved in: they were so HARD and even after long cooking they never cooked down! Of course their greens used as chives are fine. But, did you find that with your own wild ones? That they’re little white pebbles of onioniness?

]]> By: Tammie http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2401 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:01:11 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2401 I just posted a small bit about the wild onions we have growing throughout the yard! They are no where near the size of other’s but being wild, I can dig em up throughout the year for cooking. I gave them their own bed this year. Transplanted the tightly grown clumps into a spacier spot. If you would want to try your hand at some, let me know and i can send you out a good bunch. They multiply like crazy! Last year I put a few in the bed and they have 3 times more bulbs. Now to see how big they will get with an inch spacing..
FYI- I am in Ohio, so they are winter hardy.

]]> By: Hayden http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2400 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:49:54 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2400 I love it – and if you can’t grow your own – keep a sharp eye out at the farmers market like I do, and you’ll find them all in all of their seasonal glory! Yum yum yum!

]]> By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2397 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:18:35 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2397 CC: Would that I did know enough for onion grad school! Honestly, my first couple of tries at growing my own from seed were pretty pathetic, which is why I brought out reinforcements in any and all other forms of onion out there. It’s insurance.

Susan: Yep, if you do a lot of Chinese or Asian food, then bunching shallots are the way to go. Coincidentally, Barbara Damrosch published a column this week about the same thing. I love that woman.

Michelle, we all start somewhere! I never ventured much beyond onion sets and garlic bulbs until I moved out here.

]]> By: michelle http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2396 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:28:45 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2396 Thanks so much for posts like this one. I have tons to learn and this sure helps.

]]> By: Susan http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2391 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:47:03 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2391 I really enjoyed – and benefited from – this discussion of onions and their associates. I’m a beginner gardener and have been contemplating shallots and scallions for this first season. As one who cooks Chinese cuisine regularly, I can never have enough scallions and garlic at hand. And shallots? To die for…

Nice invocation of M.F.K. Fisher.

]]> By: cookiecrumb http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2008/04/24/consider-the-onion/#comment-2390 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:14:14 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-2390 What a great essay. You really give me inspiration, and just now, a glow of pride in my own bitty allium garden.
I have seed heads now; not sure if I’m ready for onion grad school, however.

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