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Archive | Vegetables
Ultimate Guide to Growing Tomatoes
Tomatoes are one of the most diversified and delicious plants you can grow in your garden. Whether you call them […]
Onion & Garlic Chives – Growing Guide
There are two types of chives – onion chives (or common chives) and Chinese chives (or garlic chives). Onion chives […]
Shallots, Scallions, & Green Onions – What’s the Difference?
Ever wondered what the difference is between onions, green onions, shallots, and scallions? Perhaps you’ve watched an episode of the […]
The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Own Garlic
We are never without garlic in our kitchen. As a back-up, we have homemade powdered garlic made from our own […]
Bunching Onions growing guide (Bunching Onions or True Scallions)
Bunching onions may be considered perennials, though they are technically biennials. However, because they’ll continue growing and dividing on their […]
How to Grow Egyptian/Topsetting Onions (Proliferum Group)
How to grow Egyptian onions Egyptian, or topsetting onions, produce bulblets at the top of a stem, instead of flowers. […]
Shallots, Potato Onions, & Multiplier Onions – Growing Guide (The Aggregatum Group)
The aggregatum group of the “Onions” includes shallots, potato onions, and multiplier onions, which are all part of the allium […]
Ultimate Guide to Growing Onions
Onions are one of the two most well-known alliums – garlic being the other. Onions form bulbs of white, red, […]
Growing Culinary Elephant Garlic
Elephant garlics are also known as great-headed garlic or levant garlic, though they’re technically a type of leek and not […]
How to Grow Gorgeous Leeks
Leeks are the most delicately flavored and sweetest of all the alliums. Leeks are usually classified as a cool-season crop, […]
The Allium Family – Growing & Seed Saving
Members of the allium family are pretty easy to identify by the garlicky or onion-like odors they give off. The […]
Ajipa/Ahipa (Yam Bean, Andean Jicama) (Pachyrhizus ahipa)
There’s precious little written about the Ahipa (also known as the Ajipa). I’m not even sure where I first heard […]