Varieties - If It Ain't Broke . . .

[digitS']

. . . why fix it?

Because it is more fun that way !

Walla Walla Sweet, Utah Sweets and Tokyo White onions have done just fine for a number of years. This year, I will add Ovation Sweets and Red Goddess & Gallop bunching onions to the repertoire .

More onion seed will be started indoors soon and then the peppers and tomatoes. I've got a couple new to go with the old tools of the trade in that group, too !

Steve

 

[lesa]

I once directed seeded onion seeds- and of course, the experiment failed. When you start from seed- what do end up with to transplant? Is it the "little' onion that you find with the sets you buy? That is a lot of onions, Steve! Do you find enough of a flavor difference to have so many kinds?

 

[hoodat]

. . . why fix it?

Because it is more fun that way !

Walla Walla Sweet, Utah Sweets and Tokyo White onions have done just fine for a number of years. This year, I will add Ovation Sweets and Red Goddess & Gallop bunching onions to the repertoire .

More onion seed will be started indoors soon and then the peppers and tomatoes. I've got a couple new to go with the old tools of the trade in that group, too !

Steve

Lt us know how you do with those bunching onions. I've never been happy with the Welch bunching. The flavor is good but by the time you get done peeling off the fibrous outer layers there isn't much left.

 

[digitS']

You end up with plants as fine as frogs' hair, Lesa. Then, they grow a little bit bigger . . .

I find it a little difficult to transplant them but they don't seem to mind my clumsy technique. Wear latex gloves, poke a hole with 1 finger, set the teeny plant in the hole, squeeze soil around it, later - water 'em in.

Utah Sweets always do well but I've grown Walla Wallas forever and think they should be best (because Walla Walla is closer than Utah ). Walla Walla are a little smaller than the guys from Utah . . . unless I buy nice big WW plants from Texas .

I've grown quite a few bunching types and hoping for 1 a little more "refined," shall we say Hoodie, than the Tokyo Whites or some of the others. I'm hoping that Gallop is something like that.

Steve

 

[Kim_NC]

We're always trying new varieties along side our 'standard fare' each year. It's always fun to see how something new does. And every now and then, we hit on a winner.

Last year we planted golden beets for the first time....fabulous!

We have 2 of bunching onions that do well for us. Unfortunately we don't know what varieties they are. One was shared by my Mom and Brother from PA, which they call "Grecian onions". The other was shared by a neighbor here in NC, which he calls "Mountain onions".

 

[thistlebloom]

This year I'm starting with a whole new classof plants, something I've never grown up north here. I'm giving Sweet Siberian watermelon a try. I really miss homegrown melons and I'm hoping these do well.
There's a few other fun things I'll put in, Purple Haze carrots for one
(think I'll containerize these since my soil is so rocky) and a black pepper to name a few. I'm being optimistic that summer will have a little clout this year and the stuff that likes heat will be happy.