My califlower is getting destoyed by some kind of bug.
I never could grow cauliflower or big bulb onions.
I’ve done every trick known to humans to grow big onions but nothing works. Buddy is the same. We have similar soils.
My califlower is getting destoyed by some kind of bug.
Growing big onions has everything to do with type, planting time, fertilizer. Oklahoma can grow short day or intermediate day onions. Day length is what triggers the onion to bulb. I plant onions in February to get maximum top growth before day length starts the bulbing process. Each leaf is a ring in the onion. The more leaves you have the bigger the onion will be when they start bulbing. A lot of it is luck with the big temperature swings we have here. Onions are biennial and produce seeds in the second year. With our temperature swings it can fool the onion into producing a flower stalk. Nothing you can do at that point. You cannot stop that on e started. Onion sets will not produce big bulbs. You have to start with plants preferably pencil diameter or smaller. They will be less prone to flowering .I never could grow cauliflower or big bulb onions.
I’ve done every trick known to humans to grow big onions but nothing works. Buddy is the same. We have similar soils.
Growing big onions has everything to do with type, planting time, fertilizer. Oklahoma can grow short day or intermediate day onions. Day length is what triggers the onion to bulb. I plant onions in February to get maximum top growth before day length starts the bulbing process. Each leaf is a ring in the onion. The more leaves you have the bigger the onion will be when they start bulbing. A lot of it is luck with the big temperature swings we have here. Onions are biennial and produce seeds in the second year. With our temperature swings it can fool the onion into producing a flower stalk. Nothing you can do at that point. You cannot stop that on e started. Onion sets will not produce big bulbs. You have to start with plants preferably pencil diameter or smaller. They will be less prone to flowering .
That Black Belt soil in the South produces some of the finest vegetables I have ever eaten. Oh Man that is the one thing I miss about living there. Fresh vege's almost year round.The only thing that makes a Vidalia Onion special is the dirt they grow them in down in Georgia. The onion itself is a Texas 1015 Sweet. Also, a 'flatter' onion is almost always sweeter than a 'rounded' onion of the same variety.
Gingers pride melon / cantaloupe 1st 2 pictures followed by the more common cantaloupe and a few beans. Sure am glad we chose this kinda life style. I couldn't bear being captured in town on a little bitty lot surrounded by 2 legged critters. Got the steer loaded this morning so he can get shrink wrapped, started raining half way thru that process always an adventure. Ooops I didn't xfer the bean pic..
Haven't had the $ flow to make it happen yet. Rough guess about 4k to be up and running plus build time. Got some / much of the structural steel and sheet metal but that's it so far.. If I had more green slaves I'd be farther along but as the locker thread said it'd be a bit before any show and tell..Thought you was processing it yourself?
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