Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK I picked up my onion sets today. Unit cost was $1.388 per lb. for bulk sets, around $70 per 50 lb. bag. Total cost was $416. Not the type of cash you want to lay out this time of the...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK Want a crop that grows and sells itself? Onions come close. I call them a “fire and forget it” crop. Because it does not require much watering or weeding, it’s perfect for one of my peri-urban sites that I don’t visit very...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK In SPIN-Farming, every crop has to earn its keep, especially in winter. Onions need to make  me at least $3 lb. I am not going to get that with the standard large onions that  supermarkets offer. And I’m not going...
Courtesy of Bingo B. Boise, ID Technically, chives are a perennial and have really thin tops, from a pencil lead or a toothpick-sized leaf. Scallions are onions that are harvested small so that the bulb portion hasn’t formed yet. Some varieties of onions resist setting a bulb for quite some...
