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  • How-To

    How to Care for Onion Plants

    Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a video series from FineGardening.com. We’ll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening executive editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Sarah Breckenridge) as they plant, maintain, harvest, store, and prepare…

  • How-To

    How to Plant Onions

    Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a video series from FineGardening.com. We’ll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening executive editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Sarah Breckenridge) as they plant, maintain, harvest, store, and prepare…

  • Article

    Spring Ahead with Forced Bulbs

    Winter is wonderful—it just doesn’t need to linger so long. During the depths of the season, I find myself thirsting for something to lift my spirits in a green sort…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Catalog Review: Dixondale Farms

    Dixondale Farms is celebrating 100 years of onion plants and years of satisfied customers.

  • Article

    Bringing in the Alliums

    Right now, we are rich in alliums. In the past few weeks, we have been curing the alliums--garlic, onions and shallots--which we harvested about three weeks or so ago. It…

  • Article

    For Crying Out Loud: Tips for No-Tear Onion Cutting

    So why all the tears? Well, once you take your knife to the onion, enzymes and Amino acid sulfoxides come together to create a volatile sulfur compound (in the form…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Cultivating the Alliums: From Mild to Wild

    Though spring has sprung, it's not too late to plant some allium plants in your garden. Here is a basic guide of what to grow and how to prepare the…

  • Article

    Getting Familiar with My Irish Roots

    Happy autumnal equinox! Inspired by the cuisine of Ireland and their prodigious use of root vegetables, I am ready to start roasting them in the oven and making soups.

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    Kitchen Gardening

    How to Grow Onions from Seed

    Start with seeds to pick the best varieties for flavor, color and storage.

  • Article

    Sweet Onions with Roasted Chile and Feta Cheese Stuffing

    Sweet onions are stuffed with creamy feta cheese, caramelized onions, breadcrumbs, and a touch of cream that's offset by the punch of roasted chile pepper purée.