With spring upon us, it’s time to think about planting in home gardens. In Iowa, onions are a popular addition to the vegetable garden as they are easy to grow and take up little space. In this ...

Considered one of the oldest cultivated plants, onions are thought to have originated in Central Asia. They have been cultivated for 5,000 years, but were likely consumed long before that because, ...

Q: In the spring, I bought some nice onion sets and planted them in my garden. They made flower stalks, but they didn’t produce proper onions. What did I do wrong? To grow onions successfully in ...

Do you know the difference between chives, scallions and green onions? Chives are smaller, thinner and have a milder onion flavor. Green onions are the same as scallions. They have long, slender sides ...

Onions are a fun and reliable crop to grow in the winter vegetable garden. Onions can be planted from seed, sets (tiny immature bulbs) or transplants. The method gardeners choose depends on the time ...

You might think it is still early to think about vegetable gardening. Of course the average last frost is still a ways off but many plants will tolerate some nighttime freezing and cool temperatures.

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 ...

(or scallion) can be re-grown in a small water container indoor for culinary uses. So the next time you bought one, chop off ...

Q: I thought you might enjoy a picture of our supersized onions that we harvested this fall. They were all perfect, and most were the size of my fist. — Jadene Weber A: Thanks, Jadene, for showing the ...

I was talking with my friends — Mary, who is an excellent waitress at the Waffle Shop on North Atherton Street, and Tommy, who does the piano bar at the American Ale House plus a host of other ...