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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 19, 2012 3:17:53 GMT -5
Beautiful work people, beautiful. I just FOUND my onion seed yesterday! We are actually running out of planting space this year though. It's gonna be interesting to say the least.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 24, 2012 22:55:29 GMT -5
#22 Di Genova, Cipollini (I have my doubts, I think their seed was mixed up,looks like a yellow Cip rather than a red to me). These are long day onions and they started to bolt, so I pulled them from the trial early. Last year these did well for us. The mini heat wave did them no good. 51 planted 34 germinated 18 harvested Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 24, 2012 23:02:25 GMT -5
Cortona, only 20 of 200 Valdichiana germinated. I'm going to basket them, that's only enough to barely keep them going. I can't afford any gopher losses! Look at the onions ready to go in. This is the spring portion of this trial. Attachments:
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Post by steev on Apr 25, 2012 11:33:26 GMT -5
Nice garden BED.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 26, 2012 1:10:18 GMT -5
It's upcycled. Before it was just an old steel frame bed in the barn, Leo added some tin and some wheels and now it cavorts around holding seed trays and BEDDING plants. There's a matching one in the barn and I've been pleading for a twin BED.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 27, 2012 16:52:09 GMT -5
Yesterday the onion seeds had germinated well enough that I could weed... We planted mixed seed from all over. It ended up at about 600 feet of row. Yikes! Guess there will be plenty of diversity and bulbs to choose from.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 6, 2012 15:21:09 GMT -5
I have harvested all the onions for the onion trials and as soon as I get through uploading it, I will post the results. This is a photo of the onions that will not be replanted for seed. From 600 onions planted, about 200 will be replanted for seed. Some just didn't meet my standards. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on May 6, 2012 15:27:14 GMT -5
This is one of the best in the trial. Mill Creek! She's a big beauty! So now that the onions have been harvested and sorted, we will replant and let them go to flower. We will eliminate any with CMS. We have planted some of each of these again in the spring trial, we transplanted last week. We'll test the keeping quality of the onions when we harvest. I also think it will be interesting to see which onions do better in the spring than in overwintering. By the way, the New Zealand Torpedo, was one of the best torpedo's I have ever seen. Whoever it was who asked me previously about torpedo onions, please pm me. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on May 6, 2012 21:36:59 GMT -5
Onions being replanted to make seed. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on May 8, 2012 19:31:04 GMT -5
#31 Sangre de Buey. Okay, I went back and posted germination and harvest on the original list. Attachments:
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 8, 2012 21:18:10 GMT -5
Holly: Thanks for the pictures of the onions. I sure like seeing pictures of peoples gardens... These harvested onion photos are so unsettling to me. I either harvest thin green onions, or I harvest onion bulbs... So to see onion bulbs with leafs still attached puts me out of kilter.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 17, 2012 14:28:45 GMT -5
Okay, put your kilt back on. Spring onions in the field. Attachments:
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Post by richardw on Jul 17, 2012 14:37:33 GMT -5
Ive never grown spring onions so do the leafs die back like other onions Holly
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 17, 2012 14:40:55 GMT -5
Spring Onions out of the field. A4 = 264312 20 seeds planted 13 germinated 11 harvested (2 eaten by gopher) This is a nice onion. I don't have enough to save for seed, and trial for flavor and storage. This is a French onion called Colorado de Conservar. In the winter trials we only harvested 1 of 30 of these. I hope to be able to get these again from the USDA for seed production. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 17, 2012 14:43:12 GMT -5
Yes the leaves will die back. We tend to pull ours from the field before they are completely eaten by gophers.
In addition, they can dry quite nicely in the barn. If you harvest them with green, you can use parts of the green and the bulb itself.
A lot of markets here, show them like this in the spring/early summer.
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