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Unyun is an old Middle English word for onion apparently.
The photo is of my Snowball white onions. They have grown really big in the polytunnel this year.
I think it is a combination of fym, heat and watering the polytunnel every morning:
I only need to move the hose once to water all the polytunnel. I just give it a tug and drag it towards me.
Not forgetting what good nutrients there must in our well water. I hate to think what chemicals there are in mains water. Rain water is certainly worth collecting and it's full of free nitrogen.
Ooh. just looking at that unyun is giving me heartburn.
ReplyDeleteYou don't like unyuns? We have been harvesting some today and now they they are in the freezer. That is a blog post for another day. We made 24 bags of chopped onions.
ReplyDeleteOld English and southern French must be related - we used to give our French teacher conniptions by pronouncing the French word for onions as Wunyuns - which apparently they do in the South (and all northern French people - or at least the Parisians - regard the southern accent is 'low class'! apparently.)
ReplyDeleteVery interesting TM. I think a lot of our words are derived from Latin words. You know your stuff.
ReplyDeleteYou know your unyuns that's for sure. So now you've got unyuns to go with your potators
ReplyDeleteAre ye from summer sett?😀
ReplyDeleteThey are indeed impressive onions and testament to your caring husbandry.
ReplyDeleteThanks YP. Like I said to Tasker the other day. I am a gardening anorak. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteImpressive...I have onion envy!!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Alliums are probably my best vegetable that I can grow GZ. You can not feed them enough.
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