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.
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 .
After years of trying, I’ve found the perfect onion comes from the grocery store.
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.
I dunno what I did for sure (maybe a combination of lots of rabbit poo, rain, and setting them out earlier than usual) but my tomato plants are taller than me, with stalks as big around as my thumb and COVERED with heavy tomatoes. We've been pulling and eating (well Grumpy has been) fresh tomatoes every night for the last two weeks. My dehydrator is ready when things get kicked into overdrive. I'll probably can some too.
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.
SO much food, every evening we can make a haul of something, the tomatoes are filling up the counter faster than the eggs do.. Picked beans a few minutes ago Kentucky wonder pole, blue lake poll and noodle beans and there's more tomatoes to come in lol.. What a problem.. The season seemed to have a late start for us but with this rain watering is less and things are growing up a storm.. Corn should be ready inside a couple weeks, not a great showing but freezer space is limited and I like it best frozen.. Melons are right around the corner both sugar babies and cantalopes.. Teresa has been canning up a storm, beans, peppers, pickles, tomato sauce, still have salsa from last year so that's 1 item we don't need.. She canned 8 qts of awesome chicken broth, nothing like store bought.. Been chowing on zuchinni bread, oh so good and now I'm trying to be low carb lol, not doing so well there.. What's really nice is when your dinner is primarily your home grown..
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..
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Thought you was processing it yourself?
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..
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