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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

Growing Onions in Ireland

Posted by admin 
· May 10, 2016 

James Kilkelly writes in his Irish garden blog that:

“Onions are members of the Allium family and a popular crop for those of us who grow our own food. There are three main groups of onions: salad or spring onions, which are sown in the autumn or spring, the autumn sown varieties for early bulbs, and the early sown kinds for late keeping.

Their flavours range from mild to strong and extremely strong or real tearjerker. All parts of the plant are edible but we generally restrict ourselves to the bulb.

Top tips from garden know how tell us that:

“It is just one of those onion facts that the key to growing big onions is early planting, with fertilizer or compost. Seeds can also be sown in trays and left in a cool location until the seedlings reach about 1-2 inches tall, at which time they can be placed in deep biodegradable pots filled with loose, composted soil. Place seedlings at the top and keep pots somewhat dry to encourage more extensive rooting as they move down in search of moisture.

Plant the pots in the garden in early spring, and as they absorb moisture from the soil, they will eventually decompose, encouraging a secondary root system near the soil surface, which will produce larger onions.”

Read more at Gardening Know How: Onion Info – Tips For Growing Big Onions https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/onion/onion-info-tips-for-growing-big-onions.htm

 

Categories : Onion News
Tags : Diced Onion, Growing Onions, Ireland, Onions, peeled Onions
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