Things are going in the ground in the garden. I purchased a few scoops of onion sets from my local garden store. For about $2.50 at $1.75 per pound I got enough red, yellow and white onions to plant at least two 15' rows of each.
Anyway, I went about planting some of my sets last week. Onions are fine to plant when the soil temperature has reached 35 degrees. Sets are easy to plant. I space them approximately six inches apart and poke them in the soil so that they are covered by about a half inch of soil. You always want to plant them in the appropriate orientation so that the rooted end is on the bottom when its going in the ground.
One thing I have been thinking about is what vegetables are the most economical to grow in your own garden. Some are fun to grow and tastier than store bought versions but definitely not economical for sure (corn and peas come to mind). However, I was thinking about these little onion sets and was wondering... is it very economical to grow your own onions? I've determined that they are. When visiting the grocery store, I was picking out a red onion to buy and took note that the price per pound for the onion was ... somewhere around $1.35. So for full grown onions they were comparable in a general sense to the price per pound for the onion sets which were $1.75. If I was mathematically inclined I could make some interesting illustrations right now I am sure, but just imagine all those tiny onion sets growing in size and value as they mature... because as my boyfriend pointed out, if the onion set increases six times its size... essentially you've increased your investment by as much. Pretty cool!
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