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.
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.
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.
2020 Onion Harvest
ODE TO THE ONION
2018 Onion Season
What are the Health Benefits of Onions?
Growing Onions in Ireland