{"id":341,"date":"2023-01-22T10:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trippyacres.wordpress.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:38:00","slug":"onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/onions\/","title":{"rendered":"Onions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/td><td><em>Allium cepa<\/em>; <em>Allium fistulosum<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Days<\/strong><\/td><td>100-120<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Varieties We Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Red Burgundy; Texas Early Grande; Bunching<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Notes<\/strong><\/td><td>Grow onions from seed (takes a long time!) to get the biggest results; starting from &#8220;sets&#8221; is easier though.  &#8220;Sets&#8221; are small onion bulbs that are already one year old.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Battle of the Bugs<\/strong><\/td><td>Onions do pretty well in the battle of the bugs.  Apparently, the bugs don&#8217;t like the smell!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fun Fact<\/strong><\/td><td>There are &#8220;short day,&#8221; &#8220;intermediate,&#8221; and &#8220;long day&#8221; onions.  The northern latitudes get to grow the long day onions since they need 14-16 hours of daylight to form bulbs.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Don&#8217;t Waste It!<\/strong><\/td><td>Depending on the variety, eat them raw, steamed, roasted, or cooked just about any way.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_0339.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-613\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name Allium cepa; Allium fistulosum Growing Days 100-120 Varieties We Grow Red Burgundy; Texas Early Grande; Bunching Growing Notes Grow onions from seed (takes a long time!) to get the biggest results; starting from &#8220;sets&#8221; is easier though. &#8220;Sets&#8221; are small onion bulbs that are already one year old. Battle of the Bugs Onions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/onions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Onions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-grow","no-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}