Boutta make some chili up in here with the last tomato harvest that i picked right before frost killed everything
this made me realize I have no idea how onions reproduce lmao
I thought i could just plant them and they’d bud off like potatoes but i guess that’s not how it works and they’d just make seeds and I’d have to plant the seeds and once I heard that I was like “i ain’t doin all that for an onion”
yeah lol I just looked it up and learned
I guess some can produce mini bulbs that you can plant and that’s kind of like budding with an extra step
They bloom and make seeds. But if you grow them from seed it takes a very long time to grow. The tiny onions that we buy for planting are actually prestarted in a way so they have time to grow within a season.
I do this every year in the spring. It’s very rewarding and you can grow garlic this way as well.
I put the old sprouting onions in water so they grow roots, they will start sprouting from that when the light increases. Just the bottom of the onion should be touching water so it doesn’t rot.
And I grow greens from the tiny planting onions in soil every year, they make a small delicious forest of onion shoots in just weeks. I do this in the spring, but my dad does it all year round under a grow light and gets a steady supply of onion and garlic shoots that way.
