Dear folks,
Guess it has been pretty busy on the ranch. I have not posted in a long time. Time to tell you about the ultimate recyclable vegetable- the onion. When you buy green onions to cook with or for salads, save a half inch or so of their bottoms with the little rootlets on them. Put them in dirt in a pot or the ground and they will grow all over again for more green onions or they will mature into big fat onions if you give them a chance. Give them a big container and leave them alone and they will multiply from their roots, bloom once a year and give you seed and be decorative next to your roses and other plants.
When you buy full size onions, leave the bottom part of the onion with the dry rootlets on the bottom and bury it so the cut side is at least one half to one inch deep under your potting soil or garden dirt. It should regrow and do the same thing for you, make more onion, make seeds for you and multiply. Yellow and red onions are more nutritious for you than white onions, but any onion is good to have.
Broomsedge seeds can be planted for a low protein source for birds and grazing animals, deer, chickens, etc. It makes a good natural brown dye which protects the skin from UV radiation and nuclear radiation. As its name implies, you can bind parts of it and attach it to a pole or large stick and you will have a homemade broom. Broomsedge seeds are available from a wild native plant seed company in Junction, Texas. I think their name is American Native Seed. They have wildflower mixes and grass mixes for prairie and wetlands, maybe others. They also sell all-one-species packs.
Guess it has been pretty busy on the ranch. I have not posted in a long time. Time to tell you about the ultimate recyclable vegetable- the onion. When you buy green onions to cook with or for salads, save a half inch or so of their bottoms with the little rootlets on them. Put them in dirt in a pot or the ground and they will grow all over again for more green onions or they will mature into big fat onions if you give them a chance. Give them a big container and leave them alone and they will multiply from their roots, bloom once a year and give you seed and be decorative next to your roses and other plants.
When you buy full size onions, leave the bottom part of the onion with the dry rootlets on the bottom and bury it so the cut side is at least one half to one inch deep under your potting soil or garden dirt. It should regrow and do the same thing for you, make more onion, make seeds for you and multiply. Yellow and red onions are more nutritious for you than white onions, but any onion is good to have.
Broomsedge seeds can be planted for a low protein source for birds and grazing animals, deer, chickens, etc. It makes a good natural brown dye which protects the skin from UV radiation and nuclear radiation. As its name implies, you can bind parts of it and attach it to a pole or large stick and you will have a homemade broom. Broomsedge seeds are available from a wild native plant seed company in Junction, Texas. I think their name is American Native Seed. They have wildflower mixes and grass mixes for prairie and wetlands, maybe others. They also sell all-one-species packs.
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