Come on, Yarn Dyers! What about THIS!!!

I think the color of this onion (a volunteer grown by your's truly and boy is it HUGE) is beautiful. Now - if only folks who dye yarn could capture the variation of the colors and put it in a yarn. You could call it 'Onion'. And look at the garlic! See the color in that! In fact, you could create a whole line based on food. Tell you what, I'll supply the photos, you supply the color. What a concept!

I'd buy it! Fingering weight, please.

This is the first onion I've purchased in a long time!

Remember this post back in June? Well, 7 1/2 months later, and I'm purchasing onions again. I think we did pretty well... the onions I grew did not save as well as they could have. I don't have a root cellar, but we did our best to keep them cool and out of the sun. Toward the end, when I would cut into the saved onions, parts were soft, so only about half of each onion was useable.

So, despite giving onions to friends and sharing the wealth, the 180 onions lasted a little over half the year. Not bad! I'll be interested to see how long the 120 that we planted this year lasts.