{"id":822,"date":"2011-08-05T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=822"},"modified":"2011-08-05T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:12:40","slug":"onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Onions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red onions<\/p><\/div>\n

I know it’s been a while since I have posted anything.\u00a0 That is one thing about gardening that is really tough.\u00a0 After all of your spring harvests like peas, radishes, spinach, and lettuce it’s just a waiting game.\u00a0 We planted some red onions this spring.\u00a0 My onions have already fallen over (that’s how you know they are ready to pick).\u00a0 They weren’t very big but then again mine never are.\u00a0 I grew up in Ontario Oregon, the onion capital of the northwest, and they always have these huge onions.\u00a0 I remember getting in the car, and if there was an onion truck in front of us and it drops a few onions, my mom would stop the car and make me get out and pick them up so we could take them home.\u00a0 I don’t remember my parents ever growing onions.\u00a0 I don’t think we had to because we could just go and pick them up off the road.<\/p>\n

The best way to grow onions is to purchase the onion starts and not plant them from seed, unless you have some kind of green house which I don’t.\u00a0 You know they are ready to be harvested when the green tops fall over.\u00a0 Then you take them out and let them dry for a few days.\u00a0 I’ve already used some of mine in a salad.\u00a0 Onions are pretty resilient and don’t have a lot of pest problems.\u00a0 This is the first year we’ve planted the red onion.\u00a0 In years past we have planted a yellow onion.\u00a0 If don’t like onions but don’t mind having green onions you can plant the starts closer together and harvest the green tops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know it’s been a while since I have posted anything.\u00a0 That is one thing about gardening that is really tough.\u00a0 After all of your spring harvests like peas, radishes, spinach, and lettuce it’s just a waiting game.\u00a0 We planted some red onions this spring.\u00a0 My onions have already fallen over (that’s how you know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,58,16],"tags":[59,25,17,37,27],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-health","category-projects","tag-garden","tag-health","tag-project","tag-summer-2","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}