Hey there, thank you so much for joining me. And if you are in the U.S., happy Thanksgiving week.

I don't know about you, but once I became a gardener, Thanksgiving just created a whole new level of meaning.

You know what I mean? Maybe it's because I realized looking back on the first Thanksgiving that they were grateful for the harvest they got and now that

I'm a gardener I realized how significant that is or maybe it's because I can bring sweet

potato casserole each year with the sweet potatoes that I harvested or I can use home grown

home harvested home ground sage for the dressing that my family has passed on for

decades. Whatever it is, I love Thanksgiving week, especially because it gives us a chance to

really pause and think about what we're grateful for. Well, this year I have to tell you that I am grateful for my

onion harvest. Unions are a really big deal to me. We use them in the kitchen and in my quest to grow as

much as I possibly can that our family can eat, onions definitely take a center stage.

They're a staple in my kitchen, as I'm sure they are

in yours as well. And as you heard, if you listened to the episode where we talked about onions,

what can go wrong? You know that onions have not been the easiest crop for me to grow. It just

depends on the year, and it seems like there's always something going wrong with them.

But because onions are such a staple in my garden, I'm determined not to quit. I'm also determined not to

just keep doing the same things every year and just hoping for better results or hoping that the

weather will cooperate this year. Instead, I want to learn best practices for growing

onions in my climate. And to do that, I had to start testing, but not just random tests.

I wanted to start testing based on my own observations. What have I seen in my onion growing in the past eight years?

I want to test based on what I read are good practices for growing onions from

onion growers, people that actually do it well.

What can I learn there and what can I use to test in my garden the things that they're

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