I love cooking with onions which are close relatives to garlic, leeks, shallots, and chives. Do you like onions?
yes, i do like onions, especially cooked in butter!
Ohhh I love onions in butter. Onions are most frequently a biennial or a perennial plant but they are usually treated as an annual and they are harvested in their first growing season.
I never thought about onions being harvested like most crops, that's very interesting!
Yes! The bulbs are composed of short underground stems surrounded by fleshy modified leaves that envelop a central bud at the top of the stem.
Sounds similar to a flower bulb, neat. What is your favorite variety of onion?
fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and its bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell when a certain day-length is reached. The bulbs are composed of shortened, compressed, underground stems surrounded by fleshy modified scale (leaves) that envelop a central bud at the tip of the stem. In the autumn (or in spring, in the case of overwintering onions), the foliage dies down and the outer layers of the bulb become dry and brittle. The crop is harvested and dried and the
of onions, garlic, chives, shallots, leeks, and flowering plants. The first generation of larvae is the most harmful because it extends over a long period owing to the females' longevity and occurs when the host plants are small. Seedlings of onion and leek can be severely affected as can thinned-out onions and shallots. Less damage occurs in wet and cold springs, as this delays the development of the larvae. When plants are attacked, the leaves start to turn yellow and the bulbs rot quickly, especially