This video, with just the two of you sitting/standing and cutting up onions and chatting, is better that 99% of what is in my feed this morning. Just feels like I'm sitting at the end of your counter and ya'll are talking to us. Thank you, you are both appreciated.
I have a friend that came from Poland and if they got an infected wound they used an onion poltice to draw out the infection and kill the infection. She said it was a smelly mess but worked well.
Thanks Danny and Wanda. This is one of those mornings I just couldn't get started. That happens more often in your late 70's, Just sitting and listening to you two was like visiting an old friend, and just talking about life things. Real life things. Well, I got to get back to the garden, but thank you for the chat. I really needed that more than you can think.
🌄 .. Great tips! Onions: a heavy daily use item in my house. Over last 5 yrs, I've (on average) used 950-1000 onions annually. I've added 2x that to my grow list.
Danny, I know you don't like going to Wal-Mart but they have a vegetable chopper that does a real good job and save a lot of time and no tears when dicing onions. God bless
If you cut root end first you won't be crying. I've done it that way for years and no tears. Great video thanks guys. I got to go for now I'll finish watching later. Have a great day.
We will be harvesting green spring onions this week. Have been using some fresh, but will be dehydrating some and pickling some. Yum. Onions are good medicine.
I enjoyed this video. It brought back memories for this old country gal. Back when I was little I started to carry a pocket knife as well, still do actually! It was unusual for girls back then, but I was country through and through...lol When I was about 6 yrs old, I was right there at the kitchen table helping my parents butcher venison. They cut it from the bone, and what wasn't going for steaks or roasts, I cut it up into chunks for canning. I was raised doing it, and still do the butchering now when the hubby gets a deer or two. It is much harder to do the butchering now being physically disabled, but I still get it done. When I was little, I was in the garden too from the time that I could tell a weed from a vegetable. None of this ever hurt me, and gave me the framework for who I am today. Kids today are too soft. They need responsibility, not video games and cell phones. I have been getting some seeds (tomato, peppers, etc) planted in my hoophouse, a little late, but better than never. The main gardening isn't going well yet. I'm the one who mentioned on your live feed two weeks ago about breaking my lower left arm in two places during church cleanup day. I thankfully avoided surgery, but I will still be in a hard cyborg-type splint until sometime in June....to late to plant some stuff at that point up north here, but trying to do what I can do, I am only one person. Hubby refuses to help in the garden..."it isn't my (his) thing" he says. Please keep me in your prayers for quick healing so I can get back out there doing what I love, growing and canning us some food! Food sustainability...that is what it is all about.
I enjoyed hanging out with y'all on here this morning! Always learn something from you. I didn't know onions would last in the freezer for up to 3 years, Mr. Danny & Ms. Wanda! Good to know! TFS! God bless y'all!
Liked watching others do their work. Danny, you cut all them little onions, and never cut a finger! Fun to listen to story's and ways people do things! I grew up on farms, and now I got my own farm. Got some tomato's, peppers, cabbage, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, and some herbs. Wanted to plant more. Just got my shade cloth for the chicken run today! Was a calm day, but very muggy out! We've had rain about everyday for few days, so things are growing nicely! Thanks for sharing your life will all the crazy YT people! lol
I like to freeze dry onions, tomatoes, jalapenos and minced garlic together..season it. I call it salsa and add it to rice and beans or soup. I cook it with hamburger meat. It is so good!
I'm in Zone 8b in the North Florida Panhandle now, and yes, it's been much colder than usual. I thought last year was strange, but this this we've had late frosts and many more mornings/nights in the 40's and 50's. And just like you said, now it getting warmer - nights and mornings in the 60's; highs in the mid to high 80's. Everything in my garden just seemed to stall up until about two weeks ago. Now I've got bush beans and tomatoes blossoming, lettuce fixin' to bolt, sweet corn up about 6", and broccoli that will be ready to harvest next week. Regardless, I'm feeling blessed and grateful for anything I get and doubly so for what I can preserve. I've also noticed that we've got more pest pressure this year. Weird.
I’m in my second year of trying. So far getting a lot of green growth from the red onion bulbs I planted. Hopefully I’ll be much more successful than my first attempt.
2 tips for not crying...... 1 put a blue tip match in your mouth and the Sulfur in the match will stop your crying and #2 thing is "scuba" breathing... Breath in through your mouth and out through your nose and you will not cry.
If you rub salt on your hands before you cut the onions, you should have little to no crying. This was a great video Danny and Wanda! I love how well the two of you work together!
I love to see how you work together. When my dad retired he would dry the dishes clear up until he passed away at 93. We spent many hours as kids sitting around the table snapping beans. I miss my parents even more see you both. Couples who do these things together are so much happier. God bless you.
Enjoyed your morning instructions concerning preserving onions. Did not know that can last for a couple of years in the freezer. ❤ That’s Happy News. ❤️
Just passing along some information here, using our super seed starter I grew some Thai lemon grass from seed that is doing well here in central GA. This is a very healthy, tasty, and versatile plant. It is easy to start and they propagate themselves. Some you tube folks use this tropical plant in places that freeze over so they cut the blades back and cover them with hay or the equivalent before frost and they come back in the spring. We are excited to us this new addition once we watched so many you tubers extoll this herbal grass that ends up kind of like a stiff and thin leek or bunching onion. A freeze dyer sounds like a good addition to our household, but I imagine they are pretty expensive. Maybe a small one for a retired couple? We will look into it. Thanks for sharing! You folks along with a couple others in our general area are very helpful to us trying to make ends meet with our meager income in retirement. God bless y'all real good, Russ & Shirley Bowman
Good morning Mr Danny and Ms Wanda 😊 Ha! I was crying too...I spent some time yesterday cutting lots of onions. 3 trays of them are now in my freeze dryer, more in the freezer awaiting their turn. Trying to make my own onion powder for a year in addition to the ones i have already freeze dried for cooking (slices and dice).
Hi Danny and Wanda. Chopping those onions. Got me crying with you on those. I've canned onions and also tried something different. I put onions, peppers and apples and canned them. I'll see how I like them lol I use a lot of onions. Thanks for sharing about using the nitrogen to have good and large onions. I've got some large onions and nitrogen pays off. I have some I am ready to do something with soon. I dug up a bit of an area to plant chicken forage and sweet clover and found some onions I must have missed last fall. I was amazed they were still so good. I'm planting inside a lot this year but will do some onions outdoors as well. Thanks for sharing. Many blessings to you both in spite of the colder weather and things being slower. It's been between cold, rain and then hot and humid. I wish it would make up it's mind here in Iowa
Those old days were the best times of all of our lives. I’m 63 and I’m glad I was raised back then. If you did not have a pocket knife you had some thing wrong. Spiderwebs. We used a lot of times to stop a bleeding
It's interesting to see how you all do things on a different time line that we do up here in the north in zone 5b. We planted the long day Walla Walla & Patterson variety. I started my seeds Febr. 5th. Put them little plant starts in the garden on drip irrigation 10 weeks later mid April. My beds were prepped with a balanced 10-10-10 several weeks prior to planting. Then we put Ammonium Sulfate fertilizer from Hoss Tools recommendation. I took Danny's advise and used some miracle grow liquid fertilizer after planting out. So far they are doing great! We had a good down pour thunder storm last night a got 3/4" rain. Can't wait to see how much they've grown over night.
the info about getting more and bigger leaves on the onion before it bulbs is so true. found out by accident. I dumped too much nitrogen, I thought, into the bed were I was going to plant the onions and they gave me some of the biggest bulbs I've ever grown. Love the knowledge you guys have.
I've put up onions a lot of different ways. I can't have a garden now, so I buy them, usually in 3 pound bags. Maybe 1 will be used raw in slices or chopped. In a few days I rough chop them, toss any questionable spots, grind them to mush skin and all since the skins have so many nutrients. I put them in a pan with water and cook to mush. Cool to warm and grind them even finer. I dehydrate the tan colored onion pulp and vacuum seal the powder. Perfect for nearly any recipe. A 3 pound bag will fit in about a pint jar.
Thank you for the onion growing tips. The calcium nitrate is a game changer. My onions a bulbing up really well. I have my bent butter knife as part of my toolbox.
Good Morning! Thank you so much for the nuggets in growing onions. I have tried to grow onions and garlic here in Central VA with no luck. But i do keep trying and someday will have success. Take care and God Bless
I am 68 and as a child spent a lot of time at my Grandma's house, she cooked on a wood cookstove if you were showing any signs of a slight cold she would put a med size onion in it skin and put it on the bottom of the oven, after she took her biscuits out, and just barely keep the fire going so it slow roasted all morning and caramelized in its skin and then you got to eat the whole thing by yourself which wasn't a problem it was yummy, and no colds. Also if you have a wood cookstove put a couple of sweet potatoes just wash skin and put in the bottom of the oven and let it bake in its skin oh how yummy it will also caramelize inside of the skin and will taste like it is sweetened but will be all natural only way I liked sweet potatoes for years because everyone is always adding sugar, honey or marshmallows and it was too much, now I just bake and add butter, I have to share with my little dog. Oh yes when I chop a lot of onions for freeze dryer I set a cereal bowl of water beside my cutting board and don't have any issues, I had heard that for years and finally tried it, it works. Then I rub the back of a spoon on my hands when washing my hands to get rid of the onion smell.
I chop onions and measure 2 or 3 cups into sandwich bags, and then put the sandwich bags into larger ziplock bags. That way they are premeasured for canning recipes. I do sweet peppers the same way.
Enjoyed old-timey video! I too was determined to become sufficient in alliums, especially onions and garlic. Shallots are good option. Also enjoying delayed spring temps. Great for my tomatoes and figs. Like a second spring!
I wear swimming goggles when I cut onions. It's the only thing I've found that stops my eyes from burning. I also have a freeze dryer. We're just setting up our new farm after moving across the country, so we'll get our greenhouse and gardens set up soon. We're in deep East Texas
Good morning. 🌼 I always learn something from y'all. My daddy taught me about the circle around the onion when he saw me doing it wrong...lol. it does work to make them bigger. I like putting them up too. Thankful for y'all. God bless
Hello 👋 Danny and Wanda, it was a lovely sunny day here yesterday, today it's been pouring with rain all day , no consistency to it . Met a couple from Canada , they said they're weather's all over the place .
On a different subject other than food, I have a Miss Kim lilac that I didn’t trim last year as they say to do after they bloom. The previous year I trimmed it and the flowers grew inside the outer leaves. A few weeks ago they started to really ‘sprig’ out, that’s what I call the new blooms, and Saturday 5/6 they really HIT you when you walked out the door. Helps with the early pollinators.
Thank you for your informative, very interesting videos. I learn a lot from watching Y'all with your planting and harvests and storing your harvests, like today I didn't realize you can simply cut up onions and put them in freezer bags and freeze them for 2 or 3 years. What I've been doing is storing them in paper bags in a dark room and they last a few months but now I know another way to store them. Thank you! Maria and Mike in SC
Ya'll are making me crave fresh onions. We are still about two weeks or so out. Usually have our yearly supply as intermediate day, and they take longer. South Carolina must get a bit colder over the course of winter. We have good luck here, using the fridge method for garlic. 12 week, thick cardboard boxes in fridge. (We use an old fridge for all this.) Plant out in late October or early November. Feed just like onions. Colder springs make for amazing sized garlic harvests. I have some wildly large stalks out there. Hoping this year is one of those massive bulb years. Never grew elephant garlic. Not even in Florida, because at the time I read they didn't have the health benefits of regular garlic. Not sure if the expert stance has changed on that in the intervening last 20 years. Need to look into that. Easy perennial garlic sounds very appealing if it works like regular garlic for health things. December is often too late if your goal is all sizable clove bulbs vs spring single bulb type garlic. December works ok when planting the first order from a company, but not as a yearly thing. (December was the only option in Florida, November was just too hot.) We do have to cover them when it goes below about 18F, or they get nipped back too hard. They grow fast on all those 70-79F days of winter. Ours share space with broccoli and the like, so it all gets covered during extra low temps anyway. Softnecks more reliably make bigger bulbs, because our springs just get too hot too fast for some of the slower hardnecks. Pull garlic, ready or not, when soil temp hits 90F. We don't bother looking at leaves or whatever to know when to pull. Hits 90F soil temp, they all come out. Contrary to standard advice, we cure them in human comfort altered temperatures and humidity. Not outside. Same with those five inch or so sweet bulbing onions. Makes awkward living space, with them all inside everywhere, but they dry much faster, with little to no early storage rot. Could be we need bigger faster stronger outdoor fans, but it's easier for us to just live with the curing situation for a couple weeks. Does make you wake up craving new garlic or new garlic and fresh onions with that fresh smell of them all over the house. I have no wisdom about not crying with onions. Haha Have tried the fridge, the bread idea, the roots first and then the don't cut the roots method, nothing is 100%...just every so often one onion out of the batch will just get me.
This is the first year that I grew onions from those green starts that I got at a local feed store. Not all, but most are 4”+ in diameter. These things are like the ones they make blooming onions, or cactus flowers from. The tops have fallen over on some, so I pulled them and have them drying on a rack in the garage.
I found that I'd I wore glasses like sun glasses because it has bigger frame than reading glasses, then it helps a lot with burning tears. Ventilation helps even better with glasses. Thanks.
Omg , gladly, but i wasn't getting the joke and just scrolled the Tube too fast, I freaked out , my temperature spiked before I even had a thought or anything 😆🤣😂 i seriously couldn't handle either of you crying ❤ i will cry to onions, happily 😂
I love your videos especially the one how to start sweet potatoes I followed your instructions and yes up here in Northern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 I have sweet potato slips starting in a small wal mart tub never was able to do it before thank you and God bless
I love cutting mine up all at one time and freezing them. I separate mine in small lunch bags then place all the small bags into a larger zip bag for freezing.
L enjoy seeing a man and wife working together in harmony. The two shall become one. More people need to understand that sentence and life would be so much better for so many couples.
I've tried to grow onions for several years - only learned about their 2-year life cycle within the last 6 months! So, trying again this year and growing them from seed. And I didn't even know there were that many varieties of garlic! But I've got garlic coming up in my garden as we speak; will see how they do. I generally keep frozen onions & peppers to use in a stir-fried dinner variation, adding them to pork, beef or chicken over rice - so I'm hoping to be able to make my own this year.
Good morning Ms Wanda and Mr Danny. I was laughing at the story about Danny's grandmother sticking her tongue out while cutting onions. I'll have to give that a try next time I cut onions. Hope y'all have a blessed week!
I may be crazy, but I love onions. I grew up in the country and my parents had a large garden for the three of us with at least 3- 40 foot long rows of onions in addition to a 20 foot row of garlic and a bed of multipliers. My favorite sandwich then, and still is, a raw onion sandwich. It sounds strange, but they are delicious. My children think I'm weird, but I still have them every night before bed and it helps to regulate my blood sugar so I don't have a hypoglycemic episode.
I like to harvest the small onions and freeze dry them and make my own spices with them. I plant all my small garlic cloves and harvest them also when the leaves are all green and freeze dry them also.
Ich sage es in meiner Sprache:´´Ihr seid sowas von zum Liebhaben. Ihr seid sowas von informativ. Liebe die immense Arbeit, die ihr tagtäglich bewältigt. Luv you. Liebe Euch.
Thank you for the info on the elephant garlic, I’ll try in the fall here in south Texas. I have been harvesting round zucchini for a couple weeks. The best ones have been between a baseball and softball size, unless you don’t mind removing large seeds. Be blessed
Thank you for inviting me over to your house to talk. Loved this video, loved the format, love you guys for being you. As for the ads, who cares... klick past them, so what... people just need to bitch about something I suppose.
Wanda that is the safest way to save stuff d9wn south here cause where I live were have on average at least One storm .tornado or hurricane a year where we loose power.if their dried not to much of a chance of loosing them due to lack of electricity
This video, with just the two of you sitting/standing and cutting up onions and chatting, is better that 99% of what is in my feed this morning. Just feels like I'm sitting at the end of your counter and ya'll are talking to us. Thank you, you are both appreciated.
I love that y'all work together on the preserving of the harvest. Many hands make light work!
I have a friend that came from Poland and if they got an infected wound they used an onion poltice to draw out the infection and kill the infection. She said it was a smelly mess but worked well.
I'll remember that , good tip
Is that raw onions or boiled ?
I remember my mom did the same for us with raw onions. She grew up as a child during ww2 in Germany
Great tip
I’ve heard this as well.
It warms my heart to see a husband helping his wife in the kitchen!❤
Thanks Danny and Wanda. This is one of those mornings I just couldn't get started. That happens more often in your late 70's, Just sitting and listening to you two was like visiting an old friend, and just talking about life things. Real life things. Well, I got to get back to the garden, but thank you for the chat. I really needed that more than you can think.
We got a comfrey plant and it came back I was so happy to see it came back i noticed it has blooms all over it.
I like stuff that comes back
I love these neat words of wisdom. Y’all are one of my favorites because I learn so much. Onions, garlic and beets are also very heart healthy.
My son, the Chef, says to "put the onions overnight in the refrigerator to stop the onion juice from becoming airborne when cutting them".
Or just wear swimming goggles.
Your son is definitely on correct. I refrigerate my onions too and hardly every cry when I cut them up.
Wish I had known this before I chopped three bags of onions today 😢 😂. That was 7 hrs ago. My eyes still hurt.
Eh.... I work in a produce department and when we cut onions they are refrigerated. They still are bothersome to the eyes.
Once a pon a time, you were real people. I miss that. Money changes a lot of things
Awesome video. Love just hanging out with yall listening....like a child listening to grown folks talking.
❤
🌄 .. Great tips! Onions: a heavy daily use item in my house. Over last 5 yrs, I've (on average) used 950-1000 onions annually. I've added 2x that to my grow list.
Wow! That’s a lot of onions! 😊
Danny, I know you don't like going to Wal-Mart but they have a vegetable chopper that does a real good job and save a lot of time and no tears when dicing onions. God bless
If you cut root end first you won't be crying. I've done it that way for years and no tears. Great video thanks guys. I got to go for now I'll finish watching later. Have a great day.
We will be harvesting green spring onions this week. Have been using some fresh, but will be dehydrating some and pickling some. Yum. Onions are good medicine.
I fertilized my onions just like you said to do and my onions are really big … thank you for teaching us how to grow things…
Awesome
My purple onions never grow as big ..
I actually enjoyed watching you two work and talk! Wouldn’t mind seeing more!
I enjoyed this video. It brought back memories for this old country gal. Back when I was little I started to carry a pocket knife as well, still do actually! It was unusual for girls back then, but I was country through and through...lol When I was about 6 yrs old, I was right there at the kitchen table helping my parents butcher venison. They cut it from the bone, and what wasn't going for steaks or roasts, I cut it up into chunks for canning. I was raised doing it, and still do the butchering now when the hubby gets a deer or two. It is much harder to do the butchering now being physically disabled, but I still get it done. When I was little, I was in the garden too from the time that I could tell a weed from a vegetable. None of this ever hurt me, and gave me the framework for who I am today. Kids today are too soft. They need responsibility, not video games and cell phones. I have been getting some seeds (tomato, peppers, etc) planted in my hoophouse, a little late, but better than never. The main gardening isn't going well yet. I'm the one who mentioned on your live feed two weeks ago about breaking my lower left arm in two places during church cleanup day. I thankfully avoided surgery, but I will still be in a hard cyborg-type splint until sometime in June....to late to plant some stuff at that point up north here, but trying to do what I can do, I am only one person. Hubby refuses to help in the garden..."it isn't my (his) thing" he says. Please keep me in your prayers for quick healing so I can get back out there doing what I love, growing and canning us some food! Food sustainability...that is what it is all about.
I enjoyed hanging out with y'all on here this morning! Always learn something from you. I didn't know onions would last in the freezer for up to 3 years, Mr. Danny & Ms. Wanda! Good to know! TFS! God bless y'all!
Liked watching others do their work. Danny, you cut all them little onions, and never cut a finger! Fun to listen to story's and ways people do things! I grew up on farms, and now I got my own farm. Got some tomato's, peppers, cabbage, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, and some herbs. Wanted to plant more. Just got my shade cloth for the chicken run today! Was a calm day, but very muggy out! We've had rain about everyday for few days, so things are growing nicely! Thanks for sharing your life will all the crazy YT people! lol
Tears of Joy while enjoying the bounty from your hard work! Good morning DSH. Stay safe up there and keep on growing 🤠
I did this about a month ago placed sliced onions in my freeze dryer. they turned out just perfect!
Come on RUclips!! 10 minutes in and already had 4 adds, 2 I couldn't skip.......
Yep every 2 minutes RUclips puts out commercials!
Here ya go- stop. Hit delete. Start over. It seems to skip the adds
I spend the 11.99 a month so no commercials.
@@alabamagirl2725 I would never give those jew bastards a stinkin cent!
They are definitely ramping up the ads. 😢
My favorite videos are when y’all are having great conversations. ❤❤
This felt like a neighborly visit, thanks for sharing ❤
I like to freeze dry onions, tomatoes, jalapenos and minced garlic together..season it. I call it salsa and add it to rice and beans or soup. I cook it with hamburger meat. It is so good!
I'm in Zone 8b in the North Florida Panhandle now, and yes, it's been much colder than usual. I thought last year was strange, but this this we've had late frosts and many more mornings/nights in the 40's and 50's. And just like you said, now it getting warmer - nights and mornings in the 60's; highs in the mid to high 80's. Everything in my garden just seemed to stall up until about two weeks ago. Now I've got bush beans and tomatoes blossoming, lettuce fixin' to bolt, sweet corn up about 6", and broccoli that will be ready to harvest next week. Regardless, I'm feeling blessed and grateful for anything I get and doubly so for what I can preserve. I've also noticed that we've got more pest pressure this year. Weird.
Had me fooled I thought you had a bad storm and took everything out and I was ready to cry for you. Lol😂😮
Took me several years to learn how to get a decent size onion bulb. Finally learned how. Learned a lot from you and Hollis and a few others.
I’m in my second year of trying. So far getting a lot of green growth from the red onion bulbs I planted. Hopefully I’ll be much more successful than my first attempt.
I’m still trying
2 tips for not crying......
1 put a blue tip match in your mouth and the Sulfur in the match will stop your crying and #2 thing is "scuba" breathing...
Breath in through your mouth and out through your nose and you will not cry.
If you rub salt on your hands before you cut the onions, you should have little to no crying. This was a great video Danny and Wanda! I love how well the two of you work together!
I have planted more Onions this year than any year before. I pray they do very well for me. They are just getting started here in Indiana.
Give them plenty of nitrogen.
I love to see how you work together. When my dad retired he would dry the dishes clear up until he passed away at 93. We spent many hours as kids sitting around the table snapping beans. I miss my parents even more see you both. Couples who do these things together are so much happier. God bless you.
Enjoyed your morning instructions concerning preserving onions. Did not know that can last for a couple of years in the freezer. ❤ That’s Happy News. ❤️
Just passing along some information here, using our super seed starter I grew some Thai lemon grass from seed that is doing well here in central GA. This is a very healthy, tasty, and versatile plant. It is easy to start and they propagate themselves. Some you tube folks use this tropical plant in places that freeze over so they cut the blades back and cover them with hay or the equivalent before frost and they come back in the spring. We are excited to us this new addition once we watched so many you tubers extoll this herbal grass that ends up kind of like a stiff and thin leek or bunching onion. A freeze dyer sounds like a good addition to our household, but I imagine they are pretty expensive. Maybe a small one for a retired couple? We will look into it. Thanks for sharing! You folks along with a couple others in our general area are very helpful to us trying to make ends meet with our meager income in retirement. God bless y'all real good, Russ & Shirley Bowman
I buy lemongrass in bunches at the Asian market. I stick it in water until it roots and then I plant it
Good morning Mr Danny and Ms Wanda 😊
Ha! I was crying too...I spent some time yesterday cutting lots of onions. 3 trays of them are now in my freeze dryer, more in the freezer awaiting their turn. Trying to make my own onion powder for a year in addition to the ones i have already freeze dried for cooking (slices and dice).
Good morning
I love this video! Cutting onions talking about raising and using onions.
I always loved the smell in the shed my grandfather kept his onions
God bless your harvesting this year.
Hi Danny and Wanda. Chopping those onions. Got me crying with you on those.
I've canned onions and also tried something different. I put onions, peppers and apples and canned them. I'll see how I like them lol
I use a lot of onions.
Thanks for sharing about using the nitrogen to have good and large onions.
I've got some large onions and nitrogen pays off. I have some I am ready to do something with soon.
I dug up a bit of an area to plant chicken forage and sweet clover and found some onions I must have missed
last fall. I was amazed they were still so good.
I'm planting inside a lot this year but will do some onions outdoors as well.
Thanks for sharing.
Many blessings to you both in spite of the colder weather and things being slower.
It's been between cold, rain and then hot and humid. I wish it would make up it's mind here in Iowa
I’m growing squash this year myself, Wanda, I really started liking it more this year.
Those old days were the best times of all of our lives. I’m 63 and I’m glad I was raised back then. If you did not have a pocket knife you had some thing wrong. Spiderwebs. We used a lot of times to stop a bleeding
Really enjoyed this chop and talk. Kinda reminded me of the lives you guys use to do when you would stop for lunch. ❤❤❤
It's interesting to see how you all do things on a different time line that we do up here in the north in zone 5b. We planted the long day Walla Walla & Patterson variety. I started my seeds Febr. 5th. Put them little plant starts in the garden on drip irrigation 10 weeks later mid April. My beds were prepped with a balanced 10-10-10 several weeks prior to planting. Then we put Ammonium Sulfate fertilizer from Hoss Tools recommendation. I took Danny's advise and used some miracle grow liquid fertilizer after planting out. So far they are doing great! We had a good down pour thunder storm last night a got 3/4" rain. Can't wait to see how much they've grown over night.
Thanks Wanda, Danny
the info about getting more and bigger leaves on the onion before it bulbs is so true. found out by accident. I dumped too much nitrogen, I thought, into the bed were I was going to plant the onions and they gave me some of the biggest bulbs I've ever grown. Love the knowledge you guys have.
Thank you for the Monday mornin chit chat on onions, y'all.
Great team work...Mrs.Steve
We did onions this weekend. Cried all weekend, and our reward was onion candy. So sweet being dried.
I haven’t watched you guys in awhile, good to watch and listen to you. Enjoy your onions… love’ ‘em also
I've put up onions a lot of different ways. I can't have a garden now, so I buy them, usually in 3 pound bags. Maybe 1 will be used raw in slices or chopped. In a few days I rough chop them, toss any questionable spots, grind them to mush skin and all since the skins have so many nutrients. I put them in a pan with water and cook to mush. Cool to warm and grind them even finer. I dehydrate the tan colored onion pulp and vacuum seal the powder. Perfect for nearly any recipe. A 3 pound bag will fit in about a pint jar.
Good morning Danny and Wanda; what you need is an onion chopper! They are inexpensive and save you a whole lot of time! Best regards
We have one it just seems to be more trouble than it's worth.
Hey Danny and Wanda!
I really like these videos when y'all are doing something together and just talking about things of today and the old days. Enjoyed this so much 😊
I was given a huge amount of onions. No freezer space. So i pressure canned them with salt and pepper and bbq sauce. Omg so yummy!
Thank you for the onion growing tips. The calcium nitrate is a game changer. My onions a bulbing up really well. I have my bent butter knife as part of my toolbox.
Good Morning! Thank you so much for the nuggets in growing onions. I have tried to grow onions and garlic here in Central VA with no luck. But i do keep trying and someday will have success. Take care and God Bless
Good morning keep trying.
I am 68 and as a child spent a lot of time at my Grandma's house, she cooked on a wood cookstove if you were showing any signs of a slight cold she would put a med size onion in it skin and put it on the bottom of the oven, after she took her biscuits out, and just barely keep the fire going so it slow roasted all morning and caramelized in its skin and then you got to eat the whole thing by yourself which wasn't a problem it was yummy, and no colds. Also if you have a wood cookstove put a couple of sweet potatoes just wash skin and put in the bottom of the oven and let it bake in its skin oh how yummy it will also caramelize inside of the skin and will taste like it is sweetened but will be all natural only way I liked sweet potatoes for years because everyone is always adding sugar, honey or marshmallows and it was too much, now I just bake and add butter, I have to share with my little dog. Oh yes when I chop a lot of onions for freeze dryer I set a cereal bowl of water beside my cutting board and don't have any issues, I had heard that for years and finally tried it, it works. Then I rub the back of a spoon on my hands when washing my hands to get rid of the onion smell.
I feel like I'm your living room or kitchen right now
Love y'all. 🙏❤️😊
Good morning , Wanda and Danny praying your day will be good, love you guys S.C.
Good morning
My husband cannot stand onion but I love caramelized onions. I love him more than onions so I am enjoying your time vicariously.
We describe my dad's cooking as "He throws a onion in the pot, and then decides what he is going to make"
I chop onions and measure 2 or 3 cups into sandwich bags, and then put the sandwich bags into larger ziplock bags. That way they are premeasured for canning recipes. I do sweet peppers the same way.
Enjoyed old-timey video! I too was determined to become sufficient in alliums, especially onions and garlic. Shallots are good option.
Also enjoying delayed spring temps. Great for my tomatoes and figs. Like a second spring!
I wear swimming goggles when I cut onions. It's the only thing I've found that stops my eyes from burning. I also have a freeze dryer. We're just setting up our new farm after moving across the country, so we'll get our greenhouse and gardens set up soon. We're in deep East Texas
I recently discovered your channel. I live the content. 🙏❤️🙏
Good morning. 🌼 I always learn something from y'all. My daddy taught me about the circle around the onion when he saw me doing it wrong...lol. it does work to make them bigger. I like putting them up too. Thankful for y'all. God bless
Hello 👋 Danny and Wanda, it was a lovely sunny day here yesterday, today it's been pouring with rain all day , no consistency to it . Met a couple from Canada , they said they're weather's all over the place .
On a different subject other than food, I have a Miss Kim lilac that I didn’t trim last year as they say to do after they bloom. The previous year I trimmed it and the flowers grew inside the outer leaves. A few weeks ago they started to really ‘sprig’ out, that’s what I call the new blooms, and Saturday 5/6 they really HIT you when you walked out the door. Helps with the early pollinators.
Thank you for your informative, very interesting videos. I learn a lot from watching Y'all with your planting and harvests and storing your harvests, like today I didn't realize you can simply cut up onions and put them in freezer bags and freeze them for 2 or 3 years. What I've been doing is storing them in paper bags in a dark room and they last a few months but now I know another way to store them. Thank you! Maria and Mike in SC
Ya'll are making me crave fresh onions. We are still about two weeks or so out. Usually have our yearly supply as intermediate day, and they take longer. South Carolina must get a bit colder over the course of winter. We have good luck here, using the fridge method for garlic. 12 week, thick cardboard boxes in fridge. (We use an old fridge for all this.) Plant out in late October or early November. Feed just like onions. Colder springs make for amazing sized garlic harvests. I have some wildly large stalks out there. Hoping this year is one of those massive bulb years.
Never grew elephant garlic. Not even in Florida, because at the time I read they didn't have the health benefits of regular garlic. Not sure if the expert stance has changed on that in the intervening last 20 years. Need to look into that. Easy perennial garlic sounds very appealing if it works like regular garlic for health things.
December is often too late if your goal is all sizable clove bulbs vs spring single bulb type garlic. December works ok when planting the first order from a company, but not as a yearly thing. (December was the only option in Florida, November was just too hot.) We do have to cover them when it goes below about 18F, or they get nipped back too hard. They grow fast on all those 70-79F days of winter. Ours share space with broccoli and the like, so it all gets covered during extra low temps anyway.
Softnecks more reliably make bigger bulbs, because our springs just get too hot too fast for some of the slower hardnecks. Pull garlic, ready or not, when soil temp hits 90F. We don't bother looking at leaves or whatever to know when to pull. Hits 90F soil temp, they all come out.
Contrary to standard advice, we cure them in human comfort altered temperatures and humidity. Not outside. Same with those five inch or so sweet bulbing onions. Makes awkward living space, with them all inside everywhere, but they dry much faster, with little to no early storage rot. Could be we need bigger faster stronger outdoor fans, but it's easier for us to just live with the curing situation for a couple weeks.
Does make you wake up craving new garlic or new garlic and fresh onions with that fresh smell of them all over the house. I have no wisdom about not crying with onions. Haha Have tried the fridge, the bread idea, the roots first and then the don't cut the roots method, nothing is 100%...just every so often one onion out of the batch will just get me.
This is the first year that I grew onions from those green starts that I got at a local feed store. Not all, but most are 4”+ in diameter. These things are like the ones they make blooming onions, or cactus flowers from. The tops have fallen over on some, so I pulled them and have them drying on a rack in the garage.
I hope to apply some of your techniques this year on my onions.
Just use lots of nitrogen.
I found that I'd I wore glasses like sun glasses because it has bigger frame than reading glasses, then it helps a lot with burning tears. Ventilation helps even better with glasses. Thanks.
I feel ya Ms Wanda, it doesn’t matter what I try or what variety of onions or even garlic, they make me cry every time 😭 but I love them! Lol
I first looked at the title and thought No, then I came back looked at the picture and realized it was onions to cry over!😂
Omg , gladly, but i wasn't getting the joke and just scrolled the Tube too fast, I freaked out , my temperature spiked before I even had a thought or anything 😆🤣😂 i seriously couldn't handle either of you crying ❤ i will cry to onions, happily 😂
Excellent Danny and Ms.Wanda🙏🏼💖
I love your videos especially the one how to start sweet potatoes I followed your instructions and yes up here in Northern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 I have sweet potato slips starting in a small wal mart tub never was able to do it before thank you and God bless
I love cutting mine up all at one time and freezing them. I separate mine in small lunch bags then place all the small bags into a larger zip bag for freezing.
L enjoy seeing a man and wife working together in harmony. The two shall become one. More people need to understand that sentence and life would be so much better for so many couples.
I've got wild garlic in my garden, the other garlic l planted has plenty of green shoot's, fingers crossed.
Whoa, “ come cry with us?” I’m glad this video is about onions and not something really bad! 😊
I've tried to grow onions for several years - only learned about their 2-year life cycle within the last 6 months! So, trying again this year and growing them from seed. And I didn't even know there were that many varieties of garlic! But I've got garlic coming up in my garden as we speak; will see how they do. I generally keep frozen onions & peppers to use in a stir-fried dinner variation, adding them to pork, beef or chicken over rice - so I'm hoping to be able to make my own this year.
🙏🙏🙏♥️🙂👍.A good cry is good for you 👍. I have been there a good many times. We dehydrated them.
Good morning Ms Wanda and Mr Danny. I was laughing at the story about Danny's grandmother sticking her tongue out while cutting onions. I'll have to give that a try next time I cut onions. Hope y'all have a blessed week!
Good morning
I wish I had some nice friends like you guys.
If you were safety glasses while cutting up onions you won’t cry It works for me
I'm left handed and I'm tripping out watching you both cut haha ❤
I may be crazy, but I love onions. I grew up in the country and my parents had a large garden for the three of us with at least 3- 40 foot long rows of onions in addition to a 20 foot row of garlic and a bed of multipliers. My favorite sandwich then, and still is, a raw onion sandwich. It sounds strange, but they are delicious. My children think I'm weird, but I still have them every night before bed and it helps to regulate my blood sugar so I don't have a hypoglycemic episode.
I like to harvest the small onions and freeze dry them and make my own spices with them. I plant all my small garlic cloves and harvest them also when the leaves are all green and freeze dry them also.
Ich sage es in meiner Sprache:´´Ihr seid sowas von zum Liebhaben. Ihr seid sowas von informativ. Liebe die immense Arbeit, die ihr tagtäglich bewältigt. Luv you. Liebe Euch.
Thank you so much.
Using them all, that's what country people do. We were taught that by our elders they learned during depression / dustbowl.
Thanks for all you do.
Onions are a blood purifier. That is why they are a necessity at my house.
Thank you for the info on the elephant garlic, I’ll try in the fall here in south Texas. I have been harvesting round zucchini for a couple weeks. The best ones have been between a baseball and softball size, unless you don’t mind removing large seeds. Be blessed
Thank you for inviting me over to your house to talk. Loved this video, loved the format, love you guys for being you. As for the ads, who cares... klick past them, so what... people just need to bitch about something I suppose.
Enjoyed crying with you. 😅
I freeze dry my onions and garlic also. So very handy! 🥰
Thanks for the tips, I'm going to try growing onions again.
Wanda that is the safest way to save stuff d9wn south here cause where I live were have on average at least One storm .tornado or hurricane a year where we loose power.if their dried not to much of a chance of loosing them due to lack of electricity
Turn on a fan and blow the odor away from you and you won't cry. It really works.