Ron, do you have TSCs in your area? Ours have onion bulbs instead of onion sets. The bulbs are the size of marbles or a little smaller and produce healthy plants much quicker than onion sets in my soil. I just have much better luck with the onion bulbs and a bag of 80 bulbs is not very big. You should give them a try and see what you think. I had such bad luck with the last sets I bought and have gone exclusively to the bulbs from TSC. However, stay away from their garlic bulbs. They put three bulbs in a bag and want $3.99 for them. At that price, I'll just buy garlic in the store and plant it. I noticed this year that TSC also has started carrying asparagus crowns.
Jim,
Up here, bulbs and sets are the same thing, little round bulb shaped things that have no green sprout.
Then we have onion plants which are already growing and have little green stems. They are broken apart in bundles when you buy them. Those are the ones used for big winter onions that have to hang and dry for storage.
Both are readily available at garden centers, hardware stores, and grocery stores, this time of year. The bulbs/sets we buy usually are in 40 pound canvas bags and the stores put them in bins and sell them by the pound. There are white ones and yellow ones. We like the white ones and try to get ones that don't really have a big bulb on them since that rots off when the new growth starts anyway so it just means less bulbs per pound and less onions to eat if you buy big ones.
I guess it is like ponds and tanks
depends on where you live.
Your Super Fantastic tomatoes are low acid and kind of sweet.
If you like a fabulous tomato juice/drink here is the one to make using all
Super Fantastics!
8 quarts of whole tomatoes chopped
1/3 cup Krazy Salt
1 teaspoon Krazy Pepper
2 Hot Hungarian Peppers chopped
2 cloves garlic crushed
1 medium green pepper chopped
1 stalk celery chopped
1 handful of shredded baby carrots
1 medium onion chopped
Boil/cook all together for 40 minutes
Extract the juice through a food mill to remove seed and skins
Add 2 Tablespoons of lemon juice in each quart jar as filling with juice.
Process in boiling water bath 45 minutes.
It is a great thick drink by itself and work great in soups and other receipts calling for tomato juice.
I'm drinking some while typing this.:licking:
Ron
