Starting on Onions

This year's onions are Dutch Yellow, a medium size onion with strong flavour and aroma. One of today's volunteers offered "I guess we're planting onions today" before seeing the sack that contained them.

The way we plant onions is a bit of a tough slog (and may not be historical). We have used our square foot planting grid and planted four onions in every square. We were able to plant two 4 x 22 foot beds today once we had finished weeding all six onion beds. We should be able to finish planting the onions in the Produce Garden by the end of Wednesday.

This year, the onions will be in Produce Garden Beds 21 - 26. Also in Kitchen Garden Beds 6, 7 and 8.

For the record, this year we purchased five pounds of onions. We'll see if that is the correct amount for the number of beds that we have planned for onions.