Outdoor Organic Onion Patch

Organic Outdoor Onion Patch

   I have been growing onions in this patch for well over a year now. These onions you see in the photo above are my third cycle of onions I have planted from seed. The total cost for me for growing my onions fails in to compare how much I spend on onions. Every onion I have planted has smelled and tasted like no onion I have ever had before. Growing onions yourself is an amazing treat, especially since my household uses onions in pretty much every other dish. So far I have only grown Wallah Wallah Onions and French Grey Shallots, which I grew twice in a row. Overall, I will always grow new organic onion cultivars as long as I can get my green hands on them. ^^

Organic Outdoor Cippolina Onions

   I love stews and soups, you'd know that if you are a constant reader of my posts. These Cippolina onions are just the perfect stew and soup onion ever grown, in my opinion of course. Cippolina onions are small, but nonetheless take the same amount of time to grow as a medium sized onion. The one thing about these onions I love to do with is to make a little bowl out of it then fill it with zucchini and peppers and roast it in the oven till it is browned. That makes a yummy one bite snack!

Organic Outdoor Italian Red Torpedo Onions

   Italian Red Torpedo onions to me, make the perfect addition to any salad because of the intense onion flavour and crunch they have to offer everyone's palette. I decided to grow these onions because I cannot find them at any market I have been to as of yet and because they are a pretty onion to grow.  I am assuming that these onions will be full matured by the middle of March, which is the time for perfect weather to start to eat outdoors!

Organic Outdoor English Leeks

   My Fiancee has had me hooked on English Leeks for the longest time. We both tried leeks raw together in a delicious salad from a restaurant in England, which lead us to our leek addiction today. My Fiancee will also use these delicious cultivar of leeks in her version of potato and lee soup which I will hopefully talk her into posting a video or a blog on that specific recipe.

   Well I hope you enjoy eating onions so much that hopefully you'll think about growing your own onions to eat for your family or yourself. Thanks again for reading and following/subscribing to my various social media accounts. Until next time folks....

¤ Keep it GREEN and Keep it GROWING



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Harvesting Carrots, Leeks, Peppers, and Red Onions!!

I had the awesome ability to pick some crop from the garden that had looked good enough to eat. So I decided to take some pictures to savor the miniature harvest. I felt like pulling some carrots out so we could roast them later. I asked my fiancee to come out there with me and pick some of the crop she liked as well. My first choice to harvest was this big guy you see right here, it's actually a yellow carrot. This particular carrot was fairly enormous considering the space I gave it to grow was under the recommended space between seeds. I was thrilled to see this size of a carrot coming from my garden, I felt proud!

My fiancee went to go pull the white carrot and the other two carrots came up with it, the orange and yellow one. They all smelled fresh and delicious, so we decided to roast these carrots as well at a later time. And I still have around a dozen carrots that will be hopefully done by Thanksgiving. I planted my carrots specifically so they could of been harvested for Thanksgiving and I hope that I was correct!

After picking some alliums' that were too close growing to another crop, I then pick two nice looking bell peppers that were on the mild spice side. The onions are Red Torpedo Onions, the leek is an English Leek, my peppers were Fajita Peppers, and the carrots were Rainbow Heirloom. I then cleaned these fine looking crop so I could freeze them for later use. Growing your own food is completely rewarding and nutritious for you. You will feel accomplished after growing and eating your food. If you have children, this will also be a fun activity to do with them. Let them learn where and how their food source is coming to them. Your children will be completely fascinated with the concept of fresh food, just like you will too!  Until next time fellow gardeners, Keep it Green and Keep it Growing!
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