How my garden onions suffered a terrible fate 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧺🧺🧺 😃😃

Good morning, fellow homesteaders. I hope that the days have been pleasant and favorable for us and our health.

Today I will like to show you how the growth of my garden onions finally came to an end. This actually taught me a lesson about how much we need to be dedicated to gardening if we want to achieve the best results growing our veggies.

We are at the tail end of the year and a season where onions and some spices get really expensive.
Just imagine that I purchased two of this onion bulb🧅🧅🧅 for $0.12 yesterday evening to prepare dinner with it. This is really on the high side for me and also based on our standard of living here.

This made me remember the onions I had earlier planted, and I headed over to the garden to see what became of them.

That was the last surviving onion plant. The rains have stopped since the month of October, and I haven't had much time for gardening. Ever since the rain stopped, I was meant to continue manual wetting and nurturing of the veggies here.

The other rigorous farm work has got my time the most, and it is often exhausting to come home from the farm to tend a garden. I realized that I needed to check my onions after seeing that the ones sold at the market are now expensive.

This is the time and season where I would have wished to have an onion field just like that of my friend above. Hers was planted on fertile ground by the riverside, and with adequate care, she can have a year-round supply of onions here if she doesn't sell them off. Although she grows vegetables for commercial purposes.

The purpose of this blog is meant to look into how I can grow some onion bulbs in my garden at home, and for the progress journey of the growth, it has been a positive one from the onset.

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I had planted some onions and watched them grow; I even harvested and ate some spring parts of the onions and was waiting to see if the bulbs would grow larger underneath.
After noticing that the onions are withering away, I decided to check if I had any growth.

Taking out my hoes, I dug the ground where I have planted these onions, and low and behold, there were no onion bulbs. The little bulbs planted germinated into the spring onions, and it looks like it will take a good amount of time for the onion bulbs to grow and produce another bigger bulb 🧅 underneath.
There is more finding to be made and more knowledge to be learned about the life cycle of onions or how long it will take to plant onions and have them grow till maturity and if it will be possible to ever have some bigger onion bulbs here.

For now I have to stick with purchasing expensive onions from the market pending the time that I will be done with harvesting at the larger farm to now concentrate on gardening. Growing back some onions means that I will have a supply of spring onions, which will be very useful for use against purchasing very expensive onions, as this is an important reason behind gardening.

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