Why grow your own onions!

 At first glance, you’d think that a green onion would be pretty much a zero from a nutritional standpoint and definitely not have a place in a survival garden. Well, you’d be wrong! Green onions grown from onion sets develop amazingly fast and are packed with Vitamin A. If you let one or two go to seed, you can collect those seeds late in the year to save for sowing next season. Here’s a blurb I found concerning onions on another web site:

‘Green Onions are a great source of vitamin A. Research has shown eating Onions may result in a number of health benefits, including lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Onions also contain a substance that prevents the formation of blood clots. Green Onions are also a good source of vitamin C (providing 15 percent of the daily requirement); iron (10 percent), and calcium and fiber (six percent).’

Wow! Not bad for something that grows almost as fast as a weed! I always make sure to plant fifty or so onion sets early each spring. Then, I can enjoy green onions early and big mature onions later in the summer.