Onions 🧅 Growing Onions

Onions and onions did I say onions???? Uhm? Every year I have grown onions. 🧅 even when I was much younger. What I love most about growing onions is eating them. When I was a child we didn’t have much food. My mom was a single mom in the very early 70s we always had cream cheese and onions. Sometimes bread. I would make us cream cheese and onions did sandwiches or mayonnaise and onion sandwiches. DELICIOUS!! Even today I will make these sandwiches. If I have fresh lettuce I will add that on toasted bread. I’m telling you, ya gotta try it. Another way too is to add a cucumber. Or just make a good ole cucumber sandwich. 

This year I am unable to buy my onion starts. Which every year I have bought from Dixondale FarmDixonDale Farms  I always buy the Highlander. Which makes me think of the show The Highlander we used to watch in the 90s. A very good series. I want to share some of my pictures of the onions we have grown. 

A favorite mushroom and onions  to top any dish with 

Fresh onions on top of our homemade chili 

We hang the onions up braiding them first 

You can see how large they grow 

These are a staple in our house 

We make a lot of our foods with these onions which feeds us all year 

We freeze dry them and add to soups, taco meat etc very convenient on those nights when you don’t want to cut an onion. 

More food we make for ourselves this we use on a lot of foods 

This was last year as we didn’t braid them as we switched from the Highlander to the Patterson and I wasn’t as happy with the results of the Pattersons. I will stay with the Highlander onions. I have always been very happy with them. 

This was spring of 2023 

Sometimes I do like to grow walla walla just to eat fresh but these don’t store like the Highlander ones 

I have bought from them longer than that now. I used to just buy them at the hardware store in paper bags. Keep growing and also if you are new to growing onions order the fertilizers that Dixiondales sales as they are very helpful and will help give your onions more bite. 🌱

I am hoping this year I will be able to get some onions. I can’t imagine a growing season without them. 

Thank you to Dixondale Farms for always providing us a way to buy sets to feed our families and friends with. 

Happy growing season 

Good vibes and sending you lots of positive energy. 

Much love and appreciation, 

Dawn Gallop 🌀

 

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