Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:22 pm >200 views...nearly 40 replies...and counting?

Forget one (1) day...might Onions deserve an entire week...or beyond?

The Gotch

I think there's an onion thread lost here somewhere.
But onions deserve their on thread but this works as well.
Yes onions should be celebrated year round.
Sometimes I plan my meals around what I'm going to do with the onion.
So many possibilities.

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:22 pm >200 views...nearly 40 replies...and counting?

Forget one (1) day...might Onions deserve an entire week...or beyond?

The Gotch

It would be a syn (-propanethial-S-oxide) not to.

slugworth wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:06 pm Never had luck with onions.
Not worth getting on your hands and knees to plant.
Same size as when I planted them.

My guess is that you were sold short day-length sets.

Tormato wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 7:11 pm

slugworth wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:06 pm Never had luck with onions.
Not worth getting on your hands and knees to plant.
Same size as when I planted them.

My guess is that you were sold short day-length sets.

Yep they never got a chance to grow.

I only gave them 180 days.
Should have left them in the ground til the next year.

https://dixondalefarms.com/onion_plant_daylengths/

Which onions to plant where.

I still haven't tried to grow long daylight onions in a short daylight growing zone.
What happens is if the weather is right you get an onion with 20 some odd leaves but it won't bulb out.
My idea was to get this massive amount of leaves then turn on the lights to lengthen the day and make them bulb out.

worth1 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 9:05 pm I still haven't tried to grow long daylight onions in a short daylight growing zone.
What happens is if the weather is right you get an onion with 20 some odd leaves but it won't bulb out.
My idea was to get this massive amount of leaves then turn on the lights to lengthen the day and make them bulb out.

If ERCOT goes down, I know who to blame.

The first year I tried onions was in raised bed. They didn't do anything they just sat there. Like said same size coming out as they were going in. That was set of course. Last year was the first time I did sets in the ground. The sets delivered were terrible over large already sprouted. And they did not store well. Also got sets last year that were stuttgarter. They did much better for storage. As designed. This year I varied a bit and have the short day the Utah sweet Spanish long day, and some yellow sets, and the bottle onions. So I'm getting a much better representation of what's possible.

I definitely want to do some onion rings. I guess freezing them is the way to go sounds like to be able to get rid of that skin in between each layer. I made onion rings last year I thought they were pretty good. Just not enough of them. Because they do go fast.

Most of my ailsa Craig did id not make it to storage they just kind of rot it halfway in the ground. Could have been these flies but, I just think it's not the onion I'm looking for for around here. It was probably a much wetter year.

I used to cut the greens up for that onion flavor on hot dogs and so forth.
They get tough as the season goes on so you really have to fight your food.
Chew 32 times ma used to say.

I bought the onion sets locally but I don't like to pray in the garden.

Onion flies, it seems they don't like the desert.

slugworth wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 11:59 pm I used to cut the greens up for that onion flavor on hot dogs and so forth.
They get tough as the season goes on so you really have to fight your food.
Chew 32 times ma used to say.

The only thing that I've noticed to get tough is the central flower stem, with all of the other greens being tender (enough for me).

JRinPA wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 9:53 pm Most of my ailsa Craig did id not make it to storage they just kind of rot it halfway in the ground. Could have been these flies but, I just think it's not the onion I'm looking for for around here. It was probably a much wetter year.

Ailsa Craig is notorious for being the worst onion for storage. Those huge necks never tighten up when drying down.

Just had my first taste of the famous "Vidalia Onion".
I hope this doesn't make anyone angry but not impressed.
At least not so much as to get all excited about.
I've had sweeter onions grown here in Texas.
And sweeter onions grown right here at the house.
But it's a very good onion and very onion forward in flavor.
For that I give it a thumbs up.
I guess back when it got it's reputation in Georgia the onions were pretty strong.
Lord only knows we grew some so strong and hot they'd burn your mouth out.

https://vfic.tamu.edu/onion_information ... les%252Fml.

Get your onion tested for pyruvic acid levels.

I'm gonna drop it here.
The so called Oklahoma onion burger history and story.
It's bugged me for a very long time.
It can be found on line and on YouTube by the experts.
But there's a fly in the ointment.
Something is rotten in Denmark.

They say the onion burger got started in the mid 20's during the great depression and the dust bowl.
Well wait just a darn cotton pickin minute.
What about history?
The 20's were called the roaring 20's and the stock market crashed in 1929.
The dust bowl 10 year drought started in 1930.
So there you have it the story and all it's trimmings is BS.
The guy that supposedly started these things was just cheaping out on the meat to save money.
And remember you heard it first here on tomatojunction.

Growing up in a family of ten kids in the 50s and 60s my mother had her own vision of the onion burger. It was called meatloaf. She soon discovered that seven of the ten hated all the onions but we didn't know the difference that we were not eating hamburgers but meatloaf sandwiches. Of course she extended the hamburger by adding soda crackers and any stale bread. She got almost two pounds of "hamburger" out of a 1lb package. Now that was how to save money.

I still like meatloaf sandwiches with lots of ketchup and still do not like onions either in or outside meat.

m gonna drop it here.
The so called Oklahoma onion burger history and story.
It's bugged me for a very long time.
It can be found on line and on YouTube by the experts.
But there's a fly in the ointment.
Something is rotten in Denmark.

You know you could have saved this story for National Onion Burger History Day. It is probably sometime in July, that website showed like 10 holiday each day, after all.

Tues
World UFO Day
World UFO Day
Special Interest
Made In The USA Day
Made In The USA Day
Special Interest
World Sports Journalists Day
World Sports Journalists Day
Special Interest
I Forgot Day
I Forgot Day
Special Interest
Special Recreation for the Disabled Day
Special Recreation for the Disabled Day
Cause
National Disco Day
National Disco Day
Fun
National Anthem and Flag Day in Curaçao
National Anthem and Flag Day in Curaçao

(uhoh I exaggerated only 7 on Tuesday. So only approx 263 more holiday this month, I think National Onion Burger History Day has a good chance.)