Onions

Onions! There were three varieties planted and we managed to harvest all three with relative success. Nothing/nobody ate the plants. There could have been more of them at the end, but delicious nevertheless. So, we had shallots, 'Golden Gourmet', and two types of onions - red ones and white ones. The red ones are called 'Red Baron' and grew gigantic and the white ones are - 'Stuttgarter Riesen'.


Shallots - collected, cooked some, but most tied in braids and dried in the cupboard. the downside - the ironing cupboard is somewhat oniony...

I left onions in the ground a little longer and only lost about two. They rotted away as the soil is increasing becoming damper.



Ordinarily we use very little onions, but I have had fried, chopped and diced onions with every dish. As a dear friend of ours says - 'you just need to fry onions in butter and dinner already smells delicious!'

All of the above shall be planted again next year as it was good value for money. The bag that included bulbs for all three (shallots and the two types of onions) were cheap and a rough estimate is that the value in after harvest was about ten times that. It's late September now and we had onions from July till last weekend!