We grew a lot of onions this year and while it seemed like a great idea at the time, we now have alot of onions! 🤪 According to the experts, onions stored properly at temperatures between 30°F and 50°F will keep for up to one year so I put some of them into baskets down …
Continue reading Adventures in Prepping: What About All These Onions?
Things are still quite busy here at our little homestead. We picked the last of the onions and carrots yesterday and began cleanup of those beds (whew!). Today and tomorrow we'll tackle the potatoes and corn hopefully. Not only do we have the corn patch in the back of the property but someone (a bird? …
I've already mentioned how much I love the tulip bulbs I planted over the last few years, which are blooming beautifully now, but there are some other bulbs I recently ordered that I'm even more excited about. The first one is the Egyptian walking onion which is a perennial onion that you can eat but …
Our 2021 garden is beginning to produce for us, which is always exciting. I picked the first Early Girl tomato this morning and will use it tonight in the hubby's salad. They are a bit on the small side, but that's okay because there are plenty of them on the vine with more forming almost …
I wanted to do a little experimenting with growing onions from onions this year so rather than storing them properly, I decided to see what would happen if I encouraged a few to sprout by putting them in baskets in the windowsill. Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed! One has already begun to sprout and …
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