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2020 Onion Harvest

Posted by Eamon Crowley 
· September 21, 2020 

Hi,

We grew white and red onions in this field which was 4 km from Clonakilty Co Cork. We picked specific varieties that suited our temperate climate in West Cork and would give enhanced taste and flavour. Our onions were planted on the 31/03/20, please find below a youtube link to how we plant our onions

Please find below some pictures of our 2020 growing season from planting to harvesting.

  • Onion Planting
Categories : Onion News
Tags : onion, Onion Harvest, onion west cork, peeled Onions
Irish Onion Growing

ODE TO THE ONION

Posted by Eamon Crowley 
· July 23, 2019 

ODE TO THE ONION

by Pablo Neruda

Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew.
Under the earth
the miracle
happened
and when your clumsy
green stem appeared,
and your leaves were born
like swords
in the garden,
the earth heaped up her power
showing your naked transparency,
and as the remote sea
in lifting the breasts of Aphrodite
duplicating the magnolia,
so did the earth
make you,
onion
clear as a planet
and destined
to shine,
constant constellation,
round rose of water,
upon
the table
of the poor.

You make us cry without hurting us.
I have praised everything that exists,
but to me, onion, you are
more beautiful than a bird
of dazzling feathers,
heavenly globe, platinum goblet,
unmoving dance
of the snowy anemone

and the fragrance of the earth lives
in your crystalline nature.

Irish Onion Growing
Irish Onion Growing
Categories : Onion News
Tags : ODE TO THE ONION, Onions, Peeling onions

2018 Onion Season

Posted by Eamon Crowley 
· August 23, 2018 

Hi and welcome to our first news update on our new website. We will be regularly updating this post with general market information and how the crops are progressing through out the growing season.Overall the growing season throughout Europe has being extremely difficult with yields expected to be down between 40-50% throughout Northern Europe. The average acreage of onions growing in Ireland is down 27% this year. Yields will also be back per acre due to only some growers having access to irrigation.Our current best estimate for spring drilled crops is that yields will be down by 30% giving an average yield of around 30-35t/ha dry ex. store. The rest of Northern Europe is in the same situation with record breaking temperatures recently seen across Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.

The below pictures was taken of an Irish crop of Onion Sets on 12th of July 2018. These
were planted on the 06th of May 2018.

The 30,000ha of onions grown in the Netherlands has been particularly badly affected with temperatures close to 30°C since the beginning of July – peaking at 38.2°C last Friday (dubbed ‘Furnace Friday’ in the press). Even with 40% of the Dutch crop being grown on the Polders, where soil moisture levels can be relatively easily raised, yields are forecasted to be 40% down on normal.

Categories : Onion News
Tags : Diced Onions Ireland, Growing Onions, Irish onion Company, irish onion growing, Irish Onions, onion company, peeled Onions
  • 2020 Onion Harvest
    Hi, We grew white and red onions in this field which was 4 km from Clonakilty Co Cork. We picked specific […]
  • Irish Onion GrowingODE TO THE ONION
    ODE TO THE ONION by Pablo Neruda Onion,luminous flask,your beauty formedpetal by petal,crystal scales expanded […]
  • 2018 Onion Season
    Hi and welcome to our first news update on our new website. We will be regularly updating this post with general […]
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    Health expert Dr. Mercola lists onions amongst the most higly recommended vegetables.  He writes that: […]
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