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Heirloom Naturally Vegetables
Australia
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We grow heirloom vegetables and seeds in the field, utilising regenerative practises. Our focus is on producing high quality, delicious, nutritious vegetables with a unique appearance and "to die for" flavour. We know the key to doing this lies in building living soil, and starting with great seed. We hope to share our experience in growing, harvesting, storing and utilising our gorgeous, fresh produce and seeds, which are hand tended and harvested - no tractors here!
The importance of giving your rhubarb space.
We suggest spacing rhubarb crowns at least one metre apart, which might seem a lot when the crown looks so small at planting. Here, we take a look at the root mass of an established plant to show you why.
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Immature pumpkins-yes you can eat them.
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Time to get the last of our heirloom pumpkins out of the field...but what to do with those still immature? Let us give you a couple of suggestions.
When do I harvest my Egyptian walking onions?
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We will show you what we look for when harvesting our Egyptian walking onions. Our delicious heirloom variety produces beautiful eating onions, along with fabulous seed sets for replanting. Head to heirloomnaturally.au/shop to purchase our seed sets (Australia only).
Tomato seedlings - go deep!
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See why we recommend planting your tomato seedlings deep.
How to plant rhubarb crowns
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Planting our rhubarb crowns will give you delicious rhubarb across the seasons. In this video, we show you how to plant your crown and give you a couple of tips to ensure good yield. Apologies for the shoddy camera work - I have a new phone and the lense is in a different spot! 🤦♀️
How to plant Egyptian walking onions
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Planting Egyptian walking onions couldn't be simpler! Let us show you how we plant our onion seed sets within our market garden. It really is a set and forget crop, so if you love onions, these perennials are a must for your garden.
Red Egyptian walking onions - quite possibly!
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We found something very exciting when processing our Egyptian walking onions - a red (or purple depending on your preference) onion with red walking onion seed sets. Can't wait to grow these out and see what happens. And yes, when I cut it open, it was red inside - even more exciting!
Too many seeds in a packet - the best way to store your seeds for next season.
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We regularly hear there are too many seeds in our packets to grow in any given season. Here we outline the very simple way to store your seeds for longevity.
Celebrating Spring garlic
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We love Spring garlic! A short season crop which is a powerhouse of nutrition and flavour. See how we select the best Spring garlic and how versatile it is to use.
Planting our heirloom tomato seedlings into the field
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Watch as we plant our heirloom tomato seedlings and learn a few trick to grow them well.
How to sow your heirloom seeds
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It's Spring, which means it is time to start sowing our Summer crops indoors. In our cool climate, we have a short growing season for heat loving crops such as tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini and our beloved heirloom pumpkins, so we need to raise these as seedlings to transplant out into the field, in late October through early November. Let us show you how we sow our seeds, in very simple terms.
What type of soil mix should I sow my seeds into?
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We take a look at three different soil mediums (seed raising mix, potting mix and garden soil) for sowing your seeds into and why one is preferred over the others. We will also give you a time saving tip to give your seeds a head start.
All about heirloom pumpkins- Sibley
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In the final instalment for the season, we will focus on the American heirloom pumpkin, Sibley. It is a fantastic keeper (up to 12 months) and a great all rounder. We also cover the story behind how we obtained our original Sibley seed stock.
All about heirloom pumpkins - Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck and Violina di Rugosa
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The gorgeous ancestors of our common butternut pumpkin - mother nature started with the best genetics for flavour, texture and longevity in these two beauties.
All about heirloom pumpkins - Anna Swartz and Blue Ballet
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Covering two beautiful hubbard varieties, both are great all rounders which store particularly well.
All about heirloom pumpkins - Buttercup
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All about heirloom pumpkins - Buttercup
All about heirloom pumpkins - Rouge Vif D'Etampes
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All about heirloom pumpkins - Rouge Vif D'Etampes
All about heirloom pumpkin - Galeux D'Eysines
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All about heirloom pumpkin - Galeux D'Eysines
Huge zucchini - a cause for celebration!
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Huge zucchini - a cause for celebration!
Compost - essential for any regenerative garden
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Compost - essential for any regenerative garden
Checking on the progress of our Egyptian walking onions
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Checking on the progress of our Egyptian walking onions
Spigariello - the heirloom goodness of Winter greens
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Spigariello - the heirloom goodness of Winter greens
Pea shoots - nutrient dense microgreens
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Pea shoots - nutrient dense microgreens
Yours are way bigger than any other varieties ive seen .
I from Brazil, can you sendo me some seeds for galeux
I planted mine as soon as i got mine. They are a good size now. I'm zone 6a, indiana. Do i cut the tops off for the winter? The seller said I'd see the bulbets in the second year. I can protect the ground bulbs with a cover. I've read i can leave them in the ground for the winter. Thanks for any help.
Hello. As we are based in Australia, my advice will not be as good as that you will obtain from the person you bought from. In my context, these onions are planted in late Autumn, grown through the Winter, with the top bulbils only beginning to appear in Spring.
@heirloomnaturallyvegetables01 i was told they will appear the 2nd year. I have read they can be planted in spring or fall, but I figure if they are ornamental, they will be fine over winter.
It’s important to note that the corresponding season in the northern hemisphere temperate zone is roughly six months different, so September or October.
I was hoping this was the case. With winter on our coattails here in late September, I wanted to get mine in the ground before too long. Thank you!
Is the overhead net for sun blocking?
No, it is to protect my market garden from cockatoos.
I was happy to see a video about this. I had some in my garden from a few I planted last year and they did actually seem to "walk." This year, though, the stems are so big and hard that they never bent over at all, and the little bulbils actually sprouted themselves! I gave most of those away to other gardeners to use and am leaving leaving the rest to hopefully come up next year.
Very informative.
Thank you. I'm glad it was helpful.
I love these onions! They are fantastic and I live in Kentucky USA and leave them in the ground all year around and pull out what I need as I need them, I do cover then with grass clippings in the fall for the winter
I’m not sure how to dry and store my Hubbard squash
I could be wrong but I think 2-3 weeks outdoors in the sun, ideally elevated on a rack will dry out the stem and rind.
I planted a crown in March of this year and the place I put it had a lot of earth worm and I didn't think about it at the time but it must have been a lot of castings there because it has grown massive and I don't know what to do now, do you have advice let me know if I can and I'll show you a pic.
Hi Belinda. My advice would be to celebrate. You have clearly planted it in a very fertile spot, which is exactly what rhubarb needs. Crowns will put on a lot of growth in the first 12 months as they establish themselves. Resist harvesting until March next year, then enjoy.
I would certainly be buying stuff from you guys, but alas I live in Canada 😅! I am tremendously impressed with the size of the base onions you are growing, that’s what I want to do when my baby plants mature! Literally every other video I have watched only shows small onions!!! People seem to grow them as small green onions. I think people have forgotten what these onions can really produce! Klaus
@WhatWeDoChannel Thanks Klaus. Yes, they are a fabulous onion. So versatile and tasty.
Are there different varietals of Egyptian walking onions? My sister gave me same and they are red, or the outer skin is red. The bulb in the ground also seems to be smaller than yours.
@rgjmaurice785 Yes, there certainly are different varieties and red is one of them.
Thanks for all the pointers. I cut some bulbs from my niece's house. Excited to see them growing this year and looking forward to next years harvest. I live in Oklahoma City and have an area in the corner of the backyard sectioned off for them.
@@valeriejohnson4234 Fantastic! Enjoy the harvest.
Wow that is an onion forest😊! Inspiring. I bought some online, got the young rooting plants like spring onions. Planted them in December last year, the are growing like spring onions, a bit weak and bendy...When do the actually produce the top set, I'm in Adelaide.
Hello. I'm interested in the fact that you planted in December, as this is when we are starting to consider harvesting, so yours might just be out of sync with the season, or are not in fact EWO, given you indicate yours arrived looking like spring onions. Our onion sets will generally produce top sets within nine months when planted at the correct time of the year (please see our other videos). I would suggest getting in touch with the company you purchased from for specific advice.
Im eating some now with my lunch, mine are much much smaller..I am in Alabama USA
Enjoy!
where can i find the crowns?
Hello. You can purchase our crowns at any of the farmers markets we attend during Winter. Please head to the buy direct page of our website for details www.heirloomnaturally.au
What type of walking onions are they? I would like to buy that variability
They are "Pa's Pride".
Thank you. Short, concise and educational.👏😀😋
Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the content.
Thanks ! Very helpful!
I like to eat them as a very large green onion in the spring, fall planted bulbils. For onions, I like Red Sun Shallots(3"-4" across and it tastes like a regular onion) and Dutch Shallots(these too get to be of good size, but a different flavor profile).
Where can this variety be had in the US? I like the size.
Hello. Unfortunately I do not ship overseas, so this variety "Pa's Pride" is unlikely to be found in the US.
Cool I didnt know you could eat the small pumpkins. 😅 I’d like to know if it’s normal to harvest pumpkins or squash earlier in the summer but after the squash has turned its orange color? Do they taste like fully ripe ones? Will they ripen more after picking or do you just leave them all on the vine until frost? It seems like some people get a first and second harvest from their pumpkins and the vines continue to produce more. I have always just left them all on till frost then harvested. Id like to get more squash from the one vine if possible. 😊
Hello and thanks for your comment. As we are in a cool climate, our pumpkins do not ripen until the end of the Summer season, so we need to harvest all of ours in one hit usually. As we also harvest with the vine still attached (see my video when to harvest pumpkins), it would not be possible for us to receive multiple harvests from the one vine. Depending on your growing climate, if the pumpkins are ready to harvest earlier in the season, ands you are confident they are mature, you certainly could harvest the individual pumpkin with only the stem attached, and leave the vine to keep growing. Enjoy!
Looove pumpkin soup. I just found some seeds for the Galeaux pumpkin that I had bought a few years ago and planted 4 in a hill to be sure to get at least one. To my surprise, they all germinated! Im having a hard time thinking about thinning them out. 😢😅 Hopefully my pumpkins will get nice and sweet like yours. Are they really hard to cut through? I grew a kabocha squash once and they were so hard I had to just put it in the oven whole.
How fantastic that they all germinated! Yes, I too am challenged by thinning seedlings, but it does need to be undertaken for a great crop. Surprisingly, this pumpkin is very easy to cut. One of the easiest in all the varieties I grow. Enjoy!
Great content, ty!! I have been growing EWO for 4 years now and have realized that if I allow the root bulb to grow two or 3 years before harvest, I have more to work with and preserve. But even harvesting my three year old roots/bulbs, they do not look like the bulb you used for demonstration. Now I do not purposely plant the top bulbs, I allow them to reseed themselves in the garden. So what are you doing differently to produce a shallot type onion? And or what variety are you growing? Thank you so much!
Hello and thanks for your comment. Please refer to my other videos on planting EWO, checking on their progress and harvesting - they will likely give you the information you seek. In short, we harvest the entire plant each season, cure it and eat the base, replanting only the top sets. They are pretty much plant and forget in our context. We don't do anything unusual to get this size. The variety we grow is a true heirloom, handed down within my neighbours family. It is called "Pa's pride".
Such a great video. After watching your videos some months ago, I managed to get some bulbils and put them in the ground a week ago, and already there are quite a few blades growing. I’m not very good at growing normal onions, so I’m happy about how easy it is to grow walking onions.
Thank you. You will love these onions! Enjoy watching them grow...and more importantly enjoy eating them.
You grow them better than any other channel! I have been growing garlic for many years, I’m wondering if I could trim off the scape on the walking onions and replant cloves from the bottom of the onion (like garlic) to get the largest possible onions!? Here in Canada I plant my garlic in the fall around the end of October and I reckon I will plant the onion bulbs at the same time.
Thank you for your feedback. I am not convinced growing from the base sets is a great idea, as in my opinion they have already gone through their reproductive cycle and will only lead to small onions. Many of the seed companies here sell these shallot looking base onions as EWO, and the comments I receive is that they only ever lead to similar sized shallot-like onions. However, having said that, you know how nature is - never say never. Have a go and let me know. :)
I reckon I had better leave some of the flower stalks to produce bulbils as well as my plan to plant the big cloves, just to be on the safe side! I did read an article that said planting the base onion cloves was a viable option. As an avid gardener, I am finding this very interesting indeed! If I can grow onions as big as yours, I would be over the moon! You are literally the only channel I can find that produces a decent size of walking onion!
Now I see, thank you! Just like garlic!
How you get a harvest from Egyptian onions is something I have been wondering about!? I really appreciated this video. Do you use them just like regular onions? I would like to see how the onions look all cleaned up ready for cooking or storing!!
Thanks for your comment. Please have a look at my video titled "How to use Egyptian walking onions" as I show the onions ready for cooking and storage there. :)
Do the bulbils have to dry before planting them.? I just got some from my friend and they were freshly cut from thr mother plant. Can I plant them now or should let them dry? Thanks.
I'm not sure what part of the world you are in, but here in Australia they naturally dry mid Summer, which is when we harvest, cure and store before replanting the top sets. When left on the plant, they will naturally take root, as indicated in my other videos, however they do need to be mature enough to do so. My suggestion would be to plant them in any case - in my experience plants and seeds just want to grow. I would be careful not to overwater however, given they are freshly cut to ensure they do not rot.
@@heirloomnaturallyvegetables01 Thanks for your reply.
Thanks for sharing ❤. New subscriber.
I'm with everyone commenting on how large those are ;) My walking onions are still very much in a "getting established" stage and I've been letting them grow rather than harvesting, as I'm trying to get a good healthy population before I start eating them and they can't keep up ;)
My Spigariello is about a month old, and this video was great as I wasn’t sure what to do with it. Thank you so much b
My pleasure. I'm glad you enjoyed watching it - you will certainly enjoy eating it!
Have just discovered your channel, and I just want to say thank you.
Thanks so much Veronica. I greatly appreciate your comment.
I started my plant December last year, it's growing nicely with big bulbs in the ground. It's May now and no signs of flowering. When do they start flowering? Thank you.
Hello. I'm assuming you are in the Northern hemisphere given they were planted in December, which is when we start harvesting. We plant our seed sets late April for a December/January harvest. They send up their stalks (which grow the seed sets, not flowers as such) from Spring. I would always recommend contacting the seed supplier if they have not performed as you expected, as they can give you more specific advice for your conditions.
Thank you, great information. I have two young vines growing here in Brisbane. Looking forward to having some delicious pumpkins eventually.
They truly are magnificent. Enjoy!
Very useful information, thanks.
Thanks for the video! Those walking onions are HUGE!
I really want to grow pumpkins. I need so sow them soon!
Thank you 😘
Awesome hints n tips. Thankyou 😊
I got a seed packet of these this year and want to plant 1 or 2 plants.
C moschata, my favorite species of squash 😊
Do you know how to save the little walking onion bulbils for planting the next season? I saved a couple dozen in a paper bag last fall, but now they seem shrunken and overly dry. Will they still grow?
Hi Jeff. We cure our bulbils as we do any onion - hang to dry for a couple of weeks before storing in a cool, dark, airy place until we replant them. We cure both the larger and smaller bulbils for replanting. If the bulbils were really small, they don't tend to store overly well. As you have experienced, they shrivel. If these are the only bulbils you have, and there is still some firmness about them, it would be worth a try. If however, they just crunch into nothing when squeezed, they are probably no good.
What a compelling explanation! A natural presenter. I will continue to explore your videos. Marvelously explained and delivered. AND I now know how to use my walking onions. BTW, can the top little bulbs be used to make pickled onions? I'm considering trying.
Hello and thank you for your lovely feedback on what was my very first TH-cam video. I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Yes, the top bulbs make great pickled onions. Enjoy!
Hi! I really appreciate your videos and the precision or your informations and this is why I have to tell you that I think you mix up between Canada Crookneck and Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck. Mutschler, Martha A, et Oscar H Pearson. 1987. « The Origin, Inheritance, and Instability of Butternut Squash (Cucurbita Moschata Duchesne) ». Hort Science 22 (4): 535‑39.
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts Catherine.
Wow!! Thank you for the helpful information! I just planted my first walking onions several weeks ago and they're taking off fast! Your bulbs are HUGE! What variety is that and do you sell them? 💓Appreciate your time 😁-Nina, central coast Cali, 10A
Thanks Nina. The variety we have is called "Pa's pride". It was named by my neighbour who originally gave me the small seed sets. I do sell them but only within Australia.
Ive grown these! They are in fact, greenish black before they get greener like the one showed. They are beautiful, smell great when cooking, and taste wonderful as well. My favorite C moschata 😊
Completely agree.
Just found you on TH-cam. Thanks for this information, I’m going to harvest my walking onions this weekend and wondered what to do with them. I’m in the Waikato, North Island, NZ. I was concerned about storing the bublets for replanting, but after watching this, I am no longer worrying about it. Cheers
Thanks so much for your comment Lyndie. They are incredibly hardy, and delicious. I have no doubt you will be excited to replant, and keep harvesting season to season. Enjoy.
The best video on growing and harvesting walking onions. Thanks.
My absolute pleasure and thank you for your lovely words.
Yep the best.
Wow!!