I harvested some of my onions! 🧅
As you can see, we planted the little onion babies right next to each other, some of them started to cuddle :D, next year I will concentrate on bigger bulbs! It’s good to have small onions, but I definitely want bigger ones, I love onions. 💚
Any advice how to grow big onions? 🧅 #gardening
& thank you for being part of my gardening story. 💚 
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God bless!
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Hi Franny,
the easies way to have bigger ones is to choose the right sort of onions.
But you need to keep in mind that if you do this for homesteadying, you want them to last long. So focusing on storable onions is key. In this case bed prep, care and the weather god is king.
btw
We are testing running onions first time this year. Just to have self maintaining permanent onions.
We love onions too and already harvested a lot this year.
Will post some fotos when i'm done with posting our documentation chronologically.
everyone is #gardening
Hey Moor Orchad,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Great you instantly came to homesteading! I did not know there are onions that have longer storage rate! I’ll keep that in mind 🙏🏼😊
I’d really love to see your photos!!
What are running onions?
Hi Franny,
thank you for the #zap.
That one is going to be transfered into carbon materialized in a tree.
#zapathon for trees i would call this. :-)
That’s beautiful!! Here some more 🌳⚡️🌳⚡️
Hey, wow!
Thank you nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf
You're beautifull!
Hope there is more people here like you,
that like trees as i doo.
You made my day.
was on the Orchard yesterday for harvesting potatoes and have seen that some of the trees from this years planting didn't make it. So will plan to replace them.
Photos will be posted as soon as i catch up with the documentation.
I think it’s really beautiful that you plant trees 💚🌳 you should also talk about it here! Do you buy little saplings or do you also grow them out of seeds?
Some mistakes happen and you learn from it 😊
And I think, not only, I know there are a lot of kind plantfriends here on nostr!
Thank you Franny!
This year we bought trees in. We don't have the capacity here to grow fruit trees. This would work if it would be for example just appletrees, but i collected a rainbowmix of everything for the orchard. This ist just to much different species.
However i did some oaks with the kids this year just for fun to show them how life starts up. We found some seeds popping out under an beautifull old oak at a playground and the kids kollected them. We planted them together into our roottrainers and watched them grow out.
Unfortunately the oaks did not survive our neighbours care when we went on holydays.
Imagine
that wore 50000 years of treelife in a small box.
Fortunately nature doesn't care about it.
#gardening
Thats amazing that you tried growing trees from seeds with your kids! 😊
I would like to try it too!
Hi Franny,
sorry for the late reply, we wore bizzy with harvesting at the weekend.
Yes we doo everything together with our kids because we have also the educational aspekt on site. It would be nonsense not teaching them. And it is fun as well.
You should give it a try. In our case it was luck of observation. I've just seen that the oaks are already trying to pop out and need another place. Actually we cannot grow trees. The tree is growing itself. We just put it somwhere in place and can bring it some water.
I will inform myself about how to grow a tree :) yeah even tho it’s growing itself :p
Another question, how do you manage your garden? It’s probably not right behind your house, right?
Do you go there everyday? How many hours do you work there? And how do you manage water? Do you only use collected rainwater?
And it’s really beautiful you’re teaching your kids all this important knowledge! 😍
Hey
the orchard is about 5 km from our home. Will post the gps logs soon.
the main issue is exactly that. It is not straight out the door. Our management focusses on growing permanent and/or easy maintenance free things on the Orchard. Same time we have the luxury problem to actually already having a veg garden straight out the door. So it is also about managing multiple gardens cause the rest of the team has their gardens too. So we're focussing on things we do in scale in the orchard and growing the delicate things at home.
Water is an issue. Fortunately we have a well that was left from the farmer. It is just one of theese simple pipes sticked into earth to get water for cows. But for us a huge advantage.
I installed a solar system to pump it into IBC for the Tunnel. So we don't have to collect rainwater.
I did not really know where to really introduce what we're doing, so hope for your help.
Will give some knowledge back for this.
I'm a #permaculture designer for years and an #regenerativeagriculture enthusiast. Hope to finance some trees i love so dear at #NOSTR.
But of course i do also #gardening and have a #homeastead as well.
So quite new here.
Sure :) how can I help?
I have noticed you document everything in one thread, I think that will be difficult for other people to see! What client are you using?
I am just at the beginning of my gardening story, there is a lot to learn 💚
Supporting you with your tree plantings 🌳💚 welcome on nostr 💜
By the way, I am also from (south) Germany :)
First question would be if there is a hashtag for beginners to onboard and to introduce themselve?
Yes, i am posting now out timeline. I had our documentation on Discord so far. The idea was to have an open documentation that everyone can follow. Discord is quite nice for documentation and project orga. But NOSTR is much more open, or let us say it is open.
Don't know what is the best way to post a documentation here. Just recognized that i could tag all of it but cant redoo my postings unfortunately. But the docu is for ourselve anyway and everybody interested can follow it.
Maybe somebody can give me a best practice on that?
Hashtags like #plebchain or #grownostr (grow in the sense of growing Nostr, not only plants :P) were very popular in the past, give it a try!
To catch some garden folks, I think #homesteading or #permaculture are also good!
And I am currently growing a relay, it’s still very little used, but If you feel like a „green soul“ you can join on greensoul.space 💚
I decided to make it paid, to prevent spam, take a look if it’s worth it for you (to also post notes on the relay. Not only watching it) 😊
And unfortunately I can’t see how your notes look like on amethyst, I am using damus. When I check your page, there is just a giveaway reposted on your main page.
I’d probably share some documentation with a normally shared note, idk for your potatoes for example, and put everything new about the potatoes under it as replies? I think Nostr could also make it possible to transfer the stuff you share on discord, automatically on nostr. But therefore a little tech knowledge would be useful. Just an idea! & Nostr will probably make it possible to create a client for especially such documentations!
I was documenting some or most of my gardenwork during the season with pictures and wrote something about it that day, or a day after and shared it here. For the onions I searched the note when I planted them and shared with a new note my harvest 😊
And yeah, let’s go! Open a new note and introduce yourself! Maybe add a picture to create more value and use the hashtags! I think especially people from #homesteading will be happy to read it! 😊 I could not imagine how many homesteaders are here, wow!
Ohj wow,
that's a lot to learn.
Most urgent i need to figure out why you cant see my postings on the profile. You should see the March 2022 update that i posted last. Don't really know what happend but thats not good. Did already a lot of posts so far to get the docu done.
Can you see this note?
Oh sorry! I think I described it confusing 😂
On the main feed, I only see this one note you repostet/boosted
But clicking on notes and answers, there is everything of your documentation!
That means others would probably miss it, but for document purpose only it’s fine!
I’ll take some time later to answer the rest of your replies :) 
Hi nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf
just started learning about relays and tried to enter into yours to learn about.
But Lightning payment was not possible to do. Had a failure with the payment code that was generated.
Hey nostr:npub1nzfxpsnwr9srs353xlzdxshppmcrv4tkwfhl8zca03xkddgr8qqs9wa8x5,
I did the technical stuff with nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf.
I will take a look at it later and we will contact you after we have solved this issue.
Thank you for your feedback 💜
Perfect! 😊
Running onions have different names. The cool thing about them is that they are not generating flowers on top but 3 to five little onions. So they sow themselves permanently. The same time they split themselves as well.
Observing them right now.
Where is you #gardening located ?
Wow that’s really cool how they function! All year long?
As I already said, my garden is located in germany 😊 I grew up on a farm with animals, agrar, forests and ponds, but gardening was not one of my interests as a child, more animals :D
But today we just have chickens and ducks left, my grandma has a big gardening passion and supported me through the year, very grateful! 💚
The place I am using was not used for the past 10 years so I had a nutritious soil and the plants loved it! Expect the potatoes, they got destroyed by potatoe bugs!
Good luck with your onions!🧅
If you need any help with Nostr, I am here to support you 😊
So far i cannot recomend for now.
I have split them into two trials.
Outside in the beds and another trial in our polytunnel.
I don't really see much difference for now except that maybe the ones in the tunnel split themselves a bit more into two to three onion bulbs.
So far i could not reproduce seedbulbs on top of them. My guess is that the seedbulbs are coming in the second year, so in the next season. I will try to give them a season over winter in the tunnel.
So far i also didn't taste them. Keeping them like my eyes. The damn seedbulbs are really expensive. You pay at least an euro per little bulb.
So i try to reproduce them as good as possible for now.
When i'm done with them, i can send you some to the south. But guess this will take some time.
Yes, i like sharing seeds as well. Free seeds are what we gardeners need.
Maybe we should add a #seedstr to #gardening ?
That looks like a great harvest!
You should definitely plant them farther apart next time. About 4 inches apart is the ideal spacing to get the most of your space, but still get larger onions. Keep the bed as free of weeds as you can, too. Onions are not very good at competing with other plants for nutrients.
Make sure the soil has plenty of nitrogen. If you're doing organic, that means lots of compost and maybe a little blood meal or other nitrogen supplement. The goal is to get as many leaves on the onion plant as possible before it starts to bulb out. More leaves means bigger onions.
Onions begin to bulb when the day reaches a certain number of hours of daylight. The actual number varies with each variety of onion, (some are 10 hours, some are 14, etc) but that's the life cycle. So to get larger onions, it's best to plant them as early as possible in the year. As soon as you're nearing the end of your frost season, get them planted. That gives them more time to grow before the days get long enough to trigger them into bulbing.
Wow a belated thank you here!
I remember we had so much little bulbs to plant, and not enough space to plant them so I planted them close to each other!
Will use your knowledge for the next time!!🙏🏼 I will probably plant some over the winter and remember what you told me about the daylight! And check the weeds and nitrogen too, and the leaves over time! 🌱😊
