Onion Ideas, Tips & Guides

Do you know about Plants that Grow Big and Huge Flowers? Here’s an exclusive list of the world’s largest blooms!

I first read about this event in Jane Grigson’s Vegetable Book when she wrote that ‘The great event of our summer in France is the garlic and basil fair at Tours.  It is always held on St.Anne’s day, July 26th.’ The description that followed  was like a siren call to me, so it was inevitable that I would go there.  It was every bit as wonderful as she had said, but that was twenty years ago and I felt it was time for a return visit.  There is a danger in going back – things do change – and admittedly the mountain ponies, monkeys and dwarfs were no longer there selling rather nasty Alpine sweets (bad taste in every way) – but everything else was as I remembered. Pause Play Play Prev Next

A timely packet arrived from Unwins Seeds this morning with a selection of their Gro-Sure range of seeds for autumn sowing, so those bare patches in the vegetable garden can now be pressed into service. In case you

It could be frustrating to buy fresh vegetables in bulk only to find them stale in a day or two. So, is there any way? Yes, there is! Check out these Genius Hacks to Keep your Vegetables Fresh for Longer!

Have you ever opened your trash can only to be greeted by a wriggling mass of maggots? It’s not a pleasant sight, and it’s enough to make even the strongest stomach turn. But Where Do Maggots Come From & How To Get Rid Of Them for Good? Here are effective tips for banishing them from your home and garden. So, grab a cup of coffee (or something stronger), and let’s dive in!

Store onions and garlic in the stocking or pantyhose. Choose a cool, dry place to hang. You can also store the other garden bulbs that way. The air circulation and flexibility of the fabric makes it a nice storage option. Visit the Brooklyn Farm Girl to understand this hack!

If you are on a limited budget, then read about everything onHow to Start a Budget Vegetable Garden for Less than $10?

If planted together with the right vegetables and plants, they work on keeping bad bugs away, improving the health, taste, and yield of the arugula plants. Also, growing plants together intelligently saves space and helps to achieve optimum growth, health, and viability. Here are some of the best Arugula Companion Plants.

Every time you prepare a pot for planting, you add a layer of gravel in the bottom for drainage! But is it essential or not required at all? Why You Should Not Add Gravels to Pots? Or should you? Let’s find out!

In 1939 at the advent of World War Two there were only 46 million people in Britain and the majority of vegetables were not imported from overseas. Indeed there wasn’t any large scale vegetable rationing during the entire war, only on foods like butter, meat and eggs. Supplies of other food ingredients such as bananas and oranges were hugely disrupted. The government of the day launched the well-known ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign to encourage us to dig up our lawns and village greens and turn them over to fruit and vegetable growing. This was largely to try and increase the amount of available food, to compensate for other things and not because of widespread vegetable shortages.

Love pretty bouquets and cut flowers in vases? Grow your own cut flower garden by growing one of these 50 cut flowers in your garden.

Sometimes, strange ways are the best! Keeping that in mind, here are some Bizarre Houseplant Tricks Worth Noting for you!

If you love nutritious and heartwarming soups, why not next time prepare them from homegrown vegetables picked from your very own Container Soup Garden? This rewarding activity needs just a pinch of your time, small space to keep containers, and some tending.

The purpose of this article is not to discourage you from growing houseplants but to make you aware of some of the popular and common houseplants toxic to dogs. Labeled as mildly, moderately, highly, and very highly poisonous.

There are some plants that are less appealing to deer and may be good options for your garden. So, let’s dive into some of the Best Deer Resistant Perennials out there!

When I used to scout greenhouse plants for pests for a living, I carried a chart designed to be filled out easily as I counted and walked the crops.We link to vendors to help you find relevant pro

Onions are a vegetable garden favorite. They are members of the large and diverse Allium genus that includes garlic and leeks, and are staples in recipes from countries around the globe.We link to vendors to help

So many of our favorite dishes start with onions (Allium cepa), finely chopped, and sweating out their umami flavor in hot butter or oil.They’re also easy to harvest

Winter is a time when most crops go dormant or have died off for the season in many areas, leaving a brown, slumbering landscape in the garden. But there are a number of vegetables that can be grown in the winter.Onions can be planted in the fall to begin

Along with robins, daffodils, and cool breezes, why not add homegrown onions to your list of things to look forward to this spring?Spring onions, Allium cepa, are easy to grow

Greenhouses are invaluable if you want to be able to keep the growing season going for longer throughout the year than Mother Nature typically allows.While all the fancy additions like heat and supplemen

I don’t know about you, but the tail end of a long and cold winter really makes me anxious.Here in southern Vermont, the snow and ice

Whether you mostly eat takeout and warm up frozen dinners or are a dedicated home chef, the harvest season for homegrown scallions is a gleeful time.They’re so handy for chopping t

When you love growing vegetables and crave a hint of onion flavor in savory dishes, scallions can deliver what you want 50 to 70 days from sowing.Even if you opt to devote part of the veggie patch to grow slower-paced

Onion skin and peels are rich in antioxidants and quercetin. There are a variety of Onion Skin Uses that you can learn in this article to make the best use of them!

Allium genus has many species to choose from. To make it easy for you, we have selected the Most Popular Allium Varieties with the best blend of colors and charm that will surely add a lot of appeal to your garden!

From the next time whenever you buy a bunch of green onions, don’t throw away their root part. You can use these to regrow your own green onions from scrap.

These Genius Space Saving Hacks for Small Kitchens will help you to make the best of the limited space, especially if you live in a small apartment or studio!

We’ve waited a long time for some sunshine and heat. April suddenly delivered both for a few days and got the tulips going, thank goodness. But gosh. So much work to do in a very short time because it has been too miserable to be out there. Spring and I are horribly behind.

I was introduced to Egyptian walking onions about 12 years ago by an older man named Terry.He was a kind person who seemed more at ease with the plants i

Refrigerators have become an essential part of our daily life. Can you imagine life without one?

Listerine has become a common product used in oral and dental hygiene in recent decades. Introduced more than 130 years ago, Listerine has been through many phases and uses before finally settling on what it is today – an antiseptic mouthwash that is used by more than 1 billion people throughout the world.

From all-time favorite potato chips and hash browns to simple baked potatoes, the culinary scope of potatoes is quite versatile. The truth is that you simply can’t do without potatoes. Just picture what would your next Thanksgiving dinner would be like without the side of classic mashed potatoes.

If you’re hoping to create a more sustainable yard or garden, using native plants in the landscape is a no-brainer: these locally adapted species are beautiful, low maintenance, and waterwise.And some native wildflowers are wide-ranging and high

“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” – Gertrude Jekyll

Allium leaf miners are devastating pests of garlic, onions, shallots, chives, and leeks – and can destroy an entire crop.These invasive insects are spreading rapidly throughout the mid-