Time to peel away the layers and re-know your onions!

Join Anne and Mary Jo again as they talk through all things onions and why your students will be crying if you don’t plant this awesome vegetable in your school garden this season. 
Podcast outline: 

2:50 - Why grow onions? 

3:33 - What part of the onion do we eat?  

4:24 - Onion Family 

4:43 - Planting onions 

5:30 - How do onions grow 

6:40 - Where to buy onion slips and sets 

7:28 - How to plant onions and connections to the classroom 

9:00 - Book Connection - ⁠Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens ⁠

10:23 - Caring for your onions as they grow 

11:10 - Watering 

12:46- Signs of growth 

13:15 - Bolting, going to seed or putting up a flower 

15:40 - Harvesting 

19:46 - Funny story 

22:11 - Kid question:   Why do onions make you cry? 

Recommendations:  Our favorite and recommended feed store in North Texas is Russell Feed and Supply. Find your local store ⁠here⁠. 

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