Food Thread

@Reach
I assume you're growing the garlic for the bulbs. Pretty tedious, lots of weeding.
Did you know that you can also eat the green tops (like chives). I cut them on a bias to get longer tender slivers. ?
I am growing them for the bulbs, and I despise weeding but I’ll deal with it for good garlic. I only planted one line of cloves in front of the house, so it shouldn’t be bad.

I have never eaten the tops, but I’m not surprised it can be done.
 
We grow a multiplier type onion named I'itoi for their tops and small bulbs. We started with 8 and now we're up to this:

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About two weeks ago we dug and divided some clumps of I'itoi and planted them in a broadfork dug bed three rows on ten inch centers with the starts six inches apart:

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These are various plants of 'Ultracrop' collards. About 20 kinds of mixed heirloom collards and we will select the ones we like best for seed collection next spring when they flower. I eat about 100g. of collards with extra virgin olive oil every day almost without exception.

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Here's a close up of several interesting plants. We'll only save seed from six to ten of them and plant them out in the fall of 2026.
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These are various plants of 'Ultracrop' collards. About 20 kinds of mixed heirloom collards and we will select the ones we like best for seed collection next spring when they flower. I eat about 100g. of collards with extra virgin olive oil every day almost without exception.

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Here's a close up of several interesting plants. We'll only save seed from six to ten of them and plant them out in the fall of 2026.
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Those are some cool plants, I’ll have to look up that onion. Is the flavor and texture similar to any of the common onions available in a grocery store? I have grown regular yellow onions, grew up with a very large garden that provided nearly everything we ate. My mother loves odd and heirloom plants, I personally do not garden, though now that I live alone. I just don’t have the time for it.

I still do a lot of my own canning and freezing, I simply buy my produce from an Amish farm stand nearby.

I must also complement that garden of yours, very nice! Clearly, you put some work into it.
 
We grow a multiplier type onion named I'itoi for their tops and small bulbs. We started with 8 and now we're up to this:

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About two weeks ago we dug and divided some clumps of I'itoi and planted them in a broadfork dug bed three rows on ten inch centers with the starts six inches apart:

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I’ve been doing some reading on those onions this evening, and it looks like it may be too cold here for them. What growing zone do you reside in, if I may ask? I am in zone 6 or 7, pretty much on the line.
 
@Reach
I assume you're growing the garlic for the bulbs. Pretty tedious, lots of weeding.
Did you know that you can also eat the green tops (like chives). I cut them on a bias to get longer tender slivers. ?
I didn't ask a rather important question: what do you do with the tops? As in, how do you eat them? Like a replacement for chives, or something else? And do you eat them dried, or only fresh?
 
I’ve been doing some reading on those onions this evening, and it looks like it may be too cold here for them. What growing zone do you reside in, if I may ask? I am in zone 6 or 7, pretty much on the line.

I'm in zone 8a, north east of Atlanta on 85 about 40 miles.
 
It’s supposed to be that cold in your neighborhood, around here we don’t see many days that cold, and not usually this early in the year.
Our average temp right now is 40 I don’t know what I did wrong but I do feel for you guys.
Already totally burnt out from the the cold yesterday I had to get out the heat gun for sensors and even the fuel filter on our lift first time ever.
 
Our average temp right now is 40 I don’t know what I did wrong but I do feel for you guys.
Already totally burnt out from the the cold yesterday I had to get out the heat gun for sensors and even the fuel filter on our lift first time ever.
Our average is about the same, I figured you would be colder than that.

Our 83 HD used to freeze up sensors once in a while as well. Not frequently, but it did happen. Usually, it was the sensors that tell the position of the outriggers. Never had the fuel filter freeze, but our fuel supplier treats all of our fuel for the cold, and they do it very well.
 
Our average is about the same, I figured you would be colder than that.

Our 83 HD used to freeze up sensors once in a while as well. Not frequently, but it did happen. Usually, it was the sensors that tell the position of the outriggers. Never had the fuel filter freeze, but our fuel supplier treats all of our fuel for the cold, and they do it very well.
Yeah it definitely reminded me that I missed some of my pre winter maintenance.
I normally use gun oil and clean and lube them well and it makes a huge difference.

I’ve never had a problem with our fuel supplier and have used them my whole life but things happen definitely a strange incident
 
Yeah it definitely reminded me that I missed some of my pre winter maintenance.
I normally use gun oil and clean and lube them well and it makes a huge difference.

I’ve never had a problem with our fuel supplier and have used them my whole life but things happen definitely a strange incident
That makes sense. We used Gibbs, worked well for us too.

That is odd you’ve never had fuel issues, but things happen once in a while. Who knows, careless employee got a little water in the tank and it’s been sitting in the filter for a month just waiting to freeze. Or ethanol contamination in the fuel from a tanker that hauled gasoline before diesel, that will pull water into your diesel. Hard to say, hopefully it’s a one time issue.
 

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