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are onions designed tor very long growing seasons. Think of Vidalia Onions from Georgia. But apparently there are almost no onions designed for a middle of the road kind of growing season like the one we have here in Virginia. While we get great spring onions from our garden, I could never seem to grow big keeper onions for the winter.
The wild strawberries here also intrigue me. I don’t remember ever seeing them at home in Minnesota. But that may be because we grew so many of the domesticated variety I never noticed them. They are also edible and are supposed to have a stronger flavor than the humongous ones you see in the grocery store. Of course, they’re so tiny they’d need to have a pretty intense flavor.
And did you know that during the American Revolution, the Minutemen were saved from scurvy by drinking tea made from the green leaves of the wild strawberry? And Indians ate wild strawberries to help them get over colds.
And last but not least are the beautiful wild violets that grow in profusion in our ditches out front. Every resource I looked at referred to these as a noxious weed. That seems very harsh to me considering how pretty they are! But I will have to admit they seem to be spreading. Since I did find a note that the leaves can be boiled to make a tea and that the leaves can be used in salads maybe I can turn them into a useful crop. By the way, did you know that the leaves and flowers of the wild violet have three times the vitamin C of an orange.
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