Description: Up for sale are 40 bulbs of our homegrown Heritage Walking Onion Sets. Raised organically and by hand under our prairie skies and rains! This species naturally thrives with late summer to late fall planting. I typically don't get around to getting my onion sets until a few weeks before the snow flies here in South Dakota. And they thrive for me! This is the Perfect Time to get your summer and fall planting of this tasty and prolific perennial off of your mind and coming to your table early spring!!! Each order will receive the largest sets available from my current stock! The biggest ones I have right now around the size a quarter! Of course, as supplies dwindle over the next few months (late August into September) the shipped bulbs sizes will as well. But, even the smallest bulbs will grow and thrive for me and should for you as well. Very tasty and one of the first productive and harvest-able perennial (or annual) plants. Our customers say: "So fast! Excellent planting instructions and history of the plants. I can’t wait to see how they do here in Kentucky." My maternal great-great-grandparents brought these over from Lower Germany via Prussia during the mid 1880's and, therefore, through Ellis Island emigrations! Then, they traveled with my 15-yr-old Grandfather (Gottlieb), via the railroad in late October. He was barefoot and snow was on the ground. He arrived in Dimock, SD to live with an uncle who already was homesteading some land. His job was to break horses and do all the hard manual labor that was required to survive on the prairie in the late 1800's. They have a long history in our family and are traditionally passed on when sons and daughters marry and move to their own home and land. :) They are very hardy to -30 below 0 and more. They have lasted through the long journey over the Pacific by sailing ship, the Dust Bowl, dirty 30's era, other droughts and even the winter of 1968 when we had 12.5 feet of snow. As you can see they are very hardy and should do you proud! As a German ancestry family we got to start using them in early spring along with fresh loose-leaf lettuce. We cut some of the tops and cut them in small pieces to mix with lettuce that had been chilled in fresh cold water. We shook the water off the lettuce and tore or cut it up, added the chopped onion tops and then added a mixture of fresh cream (we milked our own cows by hand), a bit of vinegar (white or cider) plus salt and pepper to taste. It was/is the best start to spring's, home-grown, fresh produce eating that I know of! We also used them by pulling the small to medium sized bulbs and trimmed them top and bottom. Those we ate with fresh homemade bread and butter after dabbing them in a bit of salt sprinkled on our plates. :) We often made a meal of them back in the days when I was a kid. Yum!
Price: 19.99 USD
Location: Freeman, South Dakota
End Time: 2024-10-02T13:58:11.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.99 USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Brand: Unbranded
Type: Bulbs
Life Cycle: Biennial
Common Name: Onion
Genus: Allium
Color: Red
Features: Cold Resistant, Edible, Fast Growing, Open-Pollinating, Self-Pollinating, Drought resistant
