While reviewing our local Master Gardener website recently, I discovered that one of our better articles has been effectively missing for the past few years, lost in our big migration to a new web platform.
It wasn’t actually gone. If you knew what to search for, and could get past Google’s increasingly helpful AI answers, you could find it. (That's how I found it!) But navigating to it from our website was an exercise in futility. There were exactly zero links to it. It was just floating out there in the interwebs, looking for a home.
Good news: Thanks to effort spent on mandatory website accessibility remediation, that has now been fixed!
The article in question is Alison Collin’s excellent guide, Growing Onions and Other Edible Alliums in the Owens Valley. Alison is our local expert on onions and leeks, with a long history of growing specimens good enough to earn blue ribbons at the fair.
Her helpful guide covers the important details of growing onions successfully here, including day-length requirements, planting, irrigation, harvest, curing, and storage. It also covers other edible alliums, including leeks, shallots, scallions, and chives.
After fixing some atrocious formatting, this seemed like a good opportunity to return the article to public view. Cool-season gardening is just around the corner, and fall and winter are important times for getting some of these crops started.
You can find Alison’s guide on our Master Gardener website: Growing Onions and Other Edible Alliums in the Owens Valley.
After several years of being hidden in plain sight, it is once again possible to find it the old-fashioned way: by clicking around on our website. Does anyone still do that?
I hope you find it useful. If you have questions about growing onions or their kin, please contact us on our helpline for advice.