Tag Archives: cipollini

Out with the Old, In with the New….sometimes!

Posted on June 8, 2018 by

Our record heat here in Indiana is generating a quicker-than-normal turn-around in the potager.  A premise of the potager is the replacement of one crop as soon as it is harvested with a succession crop, thus keeping all parts of … Continue reading →

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Onions…Crying for Joy!

Posted on February 14, 2018 by

For over thirty years I grew onions from sets, just as my grandmother and mother had.  White ones for using over the summer and early fall; yellow ones for storage.  I never saw red ones until I went to college.  … Continue reading →

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Cipollini

Posted on August 4, 2016 by

These are cipollini that I grew last summer, in a window box, because my potager had not yet been started, but I’d already given possession of the Cook’s garden at the herb farm to its new owners.  I fell in … Continue reading →

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