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‍The beginning of August is usually very busy with onions, more sweet corn, cucumbers, zucchini, and tomatoes.  The late maturing tomatoes like Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, and Giant Belgium are just starting to ripen.  Typically, though, like the browning lawn, by the middle of the month the garden slows down growth for a rest.    

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‍CANDY ONIONS  Shown above being harvested by 4 year old great-granddaughter Ariya.  Candy is day neutral.  It is sweeter than northern long day onions and stores better than the typical southern short day varieties. The bulbs can reach up to 6" in diameter with light brown skin, short sturdy tops and tight necks.  Accomplished plant breeder, Colen Wyatt,  developed Candy for Seminis (a vegetable seed company now owned by Bayer) in the late 1990s.

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‍BUNCHING ONIONS, also referred to as Welsh onions, green onions or scallions, are Allium (Lilly) family members native to Asia and have been cultivated since 3,500 B.C.   They have been known to survive temperatures as low as -30 F.

‍Heshiko, an heirloom Japanese bunching onion, has a mild flavor, and its tender stalks are often used in stir fries, soups and salads.   Plants left to grow to maturity will have a dozen narrow divisions in the fall.      

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