Onions are a gem to grow in your garden. They make good friends with a lot of other crops and enhance the flavor of others. Plus, they help keep pests away. If you're looking to do a little companion ...
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8 Tips for Storing Onions to Increase Their Longevity
This year, we were lucky enough to grow almost all of the onions we needed for the entire season in our garden. Unfortunately, we got a little overzealous with our canning, so most of our ...
How to Cure Garlic and Onions to Make Them Last
Garlic and onions are the basis of many dishes, like stews, soups, sauces, roasts, and salsa, so it's no wonder they're a staple in many gardens. If you've tried your hand at growing them, at some ...
Growing Onions: The Complete Guide to Plant, Care, and Harvest Onions
I love to cook, so naturally, onions are always somewhere in my pantry or fridge. Red, yellow, white, and gourmet varieties have all found their way into my dishes at one point or another. I can’t ...
Growing Egyptian Walking Onions: How to Plant, Grow, and Harvest These Unique Onions
I am an onion addict. I use them in everything from soups to salads to sides and more. Back when I used to buy my onions, I went through about 5 pounds a week. Now that I am trying to grow our food ...
How to Grow Onions from Seed in 7 Easy-to-Follow Steps
Did you know that onions were once so valuable that they were used as a form of currency? Or did you know that it was believed you could place the sliced onion in a jar during cold and flu ...
How to Protect Your Vegetables From Carrot Flies
Don't you hate it when you have lovingly taken care of vegetables like carrots, but when you harvest them, they're damaged by pests? All that growing work is wasted because now you can't use them for ...
9 Broccoli Pests and Diseases and How to Handle Them
Broccoli is one of the most popular cruciferous vegetables in the country. When I was a child, we loved it because each piece of broccoli looked like a tiny tree. We could eat our broccoli pretending ...
21 Raspberry Pests and Diseases and How to Treat Them
If you grow any type of food, then you know how frustrating it can be to lose your plants to pests, predation, and pathogens. Raspberries aren't immune to any of these issues, and if they aren't ...