Knowing when and how to harvest onions helps you get the best flavor and longer storage life. Onions are ready to harvest when their green tops turn yellow and naturally fall over at the neck. Let ...

One of the benefits of growing your own fruit and vegetables is having a steady flow of home-grown crops to enjoy throughout fall and winter. Aside from pickling, preserving or freezing a bumper ...

I have a good crop of sweet onions, most of which have been broken over by the wind and weather. They are the sweet onion variety and have good size. When should they be harvested and how can they be ...

It will soon be time to harvest the alliums, particularly onions and garlic. Their storage longevity varies and one is challenged to make use of these food essentials in ways that exploit their ...

Q: I have been puzzled for years why my harvested onions seem to rot fairly soon in storage. I plant both sweet and yellow ones. I wait until the tops fall over to pull them and let them dry in the ...

Even though it's December there are some winter gardening chores that need to be done. Last year, I planted my onion seeds toward the middle to end of December, so this year I planting around the ...

This was published in 2017. The event is scheduled again March 26 and all times updated. Like most moms, mine had the eye of a hawk. You couldn’t sneak anything past her. So, it was no surprise that ...

Treat fruit trees, pecan trees and shrubs with horticulture-grade dormant oil:to help eradicate scale and other over-wintering insects. Check the label for special instructions regarding temperature ...

It takes a crew of onion pickers just a few hours to transform a field from a sea of knee-high green to a dusty-brown collection of onion bulbs. After farmers drive over with a tractor to undercut the ...

I haven’t bought green onions since early 2013, even though I use them weekly. No, I’m not a savvy shoplifter about to share heist advice — just a cheapskate who planted her food scraps once upon a ...