Even more than beloved Tomatoes, we sure enjoy our Lilly Family members, and grow many types each year. For our own consumption, for my adventure, for giving, for seed-saving, and processing in many ways - the Alliums are near and dear to this gardener each season/
They are so time consuming to process in the many ways we enjoy them, but SO worth the effort in our pantry. Some things we make are: Sweet and Sour Pickled Pearls ( Rakkyo or tiny multi-shaded onions), Pickled small boilers, dried 'Tater or Multiplying Onion bits, Onion Powder, Carmelized Onions in a Vinegar Sauce for the distinctive Carolina BBQ Sauce, Pickled Garlics - Balsamic~ Habanero Garlic, Dilly Cloves of Garlic, Asian Pickled Garlics, Garlic Salt and THE BEST Awesome Garlic Powder with 5 to 15 varieties each year, and more onions pickled into many more products.
Thus far, no dear friends have dropped hints of our being too fragrant, so i will persist in the delights of the edible Lilly Family in our kitchen garden.
Here are the varieties slated fro planting as seed this week:
(YAY for my Fedco order arriving, and the power back on for germination mat's bottom heat and the light banks in the basement window areas!)
Shallot, Prisma Red
Copra OnionRed Cipollini
Ailsa Crag (OP) Onion
Red Bull Onion
Evergreen Hardy White Scallions
Red Scallions (a treat from my Scotland trip!)
'Tater Onions, mixed ( garden plot lost a few years ago)
various garlics, hard and soft-necked
Elephant Garlics ( leek family)
King Seig Leek ( surely mispelled, as list not nearby and i am weary!)
maybe a few Rakkyo Onions ( Japanese pearl onion type that may be just tooo small to keep up)
and the usual chives and garlic chives i the herb garden by the house.
I start our onions earliest of all crops, usually before this time, but now is fine. They are the easiest and most productive things in the garden, once in, and the deer do not fancy them at all, thus far! Hallelujah for that :)
Do let us know if we wreak, will ya?!
7 comments:
WOW! Carmelized Onions in a Vinegar Sauce? Would you consider adding the recipe for this (and similar delights) to your posts now and then?
Also, who takes those great photos you are posting? Very nice. I also am interested in your warming pads and lights... would love to see how you have set those up.
Did Rose take the masthead photo? I noticed the "R" in the corner.
I'm with Yak, let's see some recipes!
Yes - Rose has that photo in her face book albums. The rest were just snaps around home.
I'll include some recipes from now on - the onion one a friend asked me to keep mum - but others will show up! Good idea :)
Oh Good! Someone to compare notes on King Sieg Leek with.
Sown under lights the 2nd of February
Germination not great, but several seedlings are up and looking good.
Lillian,
I've grown King Sieg for a few years now, and like them. Here they are a mid-size leek, and tasty :)
If i remember, my germination was erratic on the seeding. They germinated well, just kind of at scattered times. When i finally plant them out, they were many different sizes because of that.
Lost mine to Onion Maggot for the first time last year at harvest, so finding them a new spot is imperative, as the biological controls are too pricey for me,
Good Luck!
Hi GG
Thanks for the word on King Sieg.
I will rummage around in the bookyard to see if I can come up with some home-grown offerings for Onion Maggot controls. If there is anything promising, will post here.
Here is a link to info on Onion Maggots; their life cycles and the damage they do. A couple of things to do to help control them...
At least now I know what to look for.
http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-2-9-728,00.html
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