Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.

We've got Jill Mishihi back on the show of Journey with Jill in the Beginner's Garden

Podcast and her books and courses which are in the podcast description.

So now we're getting into preserving and actually talking about specific vegetables and

crops Jill and this was really interesting to me because I haven't grown tons and tons

of bulbing onions in my life but I've grown tons of green onions and I've got garlic

going on so I'm in the alien world just not quite in the bulbing onion world but you've

got a method to preserve bolted onions so maybe we really quickly describe what a bolted

onion is and then we can pop into the preservation method.

Yeah, bulting onions isn't my nemesis to be honest because the onion actually starts

to bolt when the temperatures go up too high too fast which is very common in my area

or you have fluctuating rollercoaster type temperatures which is also very common in

my area.

So the onion thinks oh it's the second year and so it's time to produce a flower.

So what happens is that that little central stalk starts producing this little teardrop

shaped white tip and if left to continue growing it'll create this very tall stalk

that will have this beautiful little white flower that the pollinators are going to love

but that's not what you had intended when you decided to grow bulbing onions because

at that point the bulb stops the bulb growth stops and then at that point also what people

may not realize is that you can't store those onions like you could an onion that had

been able to complete its process of growing and then you're able to cure it properly.

Yeah, yeah, I don't quite have that problem like our temperatures can get pretty high

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