♥ MY ALLIUMS PROGRESS!! ♥

ORGANIC DESERT ALLIUMS

   I do not know about you guys, but I absolutely LOVE the smell my Alliums give off in my Organic Desert Garden. I just cannot resist taking a piece off of one and munching on it whilst I tend the garden. It seriously tastes completely different than any type of Allium I have bought through the local grocery stores ever. There is seriously nothing to compare it to other than being ten times more flavourful and ten times more refreshing. All of these Alliums are from my Fall run last year, yes they have not been harvested. The reason being is that any Alliums planted during Summer, Fall and/or Winter takes (in most cases) twice as long to mature.

ORGANIC DESERT ALLIUMS

   The reason being that the sun is not around long enough through Fall and Winter to provide the much needed light and heat. Which is what the majority of Alliums require to be fully developed and fully nutritional. I estimate that these Alliums will start to fully mature towards the end of April and the beginning of May. Which is the perfect time, for me and my family at least, to store them for the Winter season here in the desert. I strongly recommend growing enough crop to store throughout the Fall and Winter seasons because it is always going to taste better than what you can find at the market and sometimes you cannot even find these specific cultivars of Alliums other than growing them yourself. Thanks again for reading and staying with me through this sustainable journey and I promise I will try to update DAILY. Until next time green thumbs....


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Onions: Thinning out the Old, Spreading out the New

    Spring has sprung for Las Vegas and that means I had to go out to the garden and figure out which plants need to go and which need to still grow! I absolutely love it when spring comes around, it's such an addicting feeling. Once I started harvesting several different alliums, I just could not stop! I saw a couple of onions that did not get the chance to fully grow through the previous Winter months, so I took the liberty of freeing them from their claustrophobic growing space.

    Once I pulled the clustered onions to safety, I put them into a cup of water in order to make certain the roots will not dry out. After making sure every single onion had enough space to fully mature and grow into a nice sized crop, I worked the soil of my onion patch yet again to add some manure into it.

    I'm telling you, there is an incredible feeling when you work with your hands in a garden. I really can't put it into words other than, zen. So why not go and make a little bit of space in your backyard or front yard for your very own therapeutic slice of heaven. Until next time...

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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....

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Organic Indoor Herbs: End of Week 4

 Organic Indoor Herbs

    It is completely ridiculous to walk into my indoor garden because with your first step in, all you smell are the fresh herbs I have been nurturing since they were seeds. And I would do the whole process over and over again, because it is incredible. I am currently going to expand my culinary herbs and tea herbs so I can teach and share my knowledge of these precious little plants. There are so many uses, culinary wise and medicinal wise, for these herbs to be used that it is truly mind boggling. There are countries and villages all over the world that still use natural medicine over today's pharmaceuticals.

Organic Indoor Herbs

    Each and every herb I grow is extremely special to me because I first started tending an herb garden when I was an extremely young boy with my grandfather and uncles. So to me it is more than just a hobby it is a moment of time I love to enjoy with my loved ones, friend or family. It is an extremely useful thing, growing your own culinary herbs. I never find myself running to the market for the ever so forgotten cooking herbs that are always left once we rush out of the store.

    Thank you guys for reading my grow-log and following it as well. It is always an amazing thing to share my passion for gardening with you, the world. Keep a look out for my future posts, I will be blogging like a mad-man soon enough! It's been awesome to share my thoughts and information with you good folk. Until next time....

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