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  • Shallots, An Outstanding Crop for Fall Planting

    Oct 28, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Growing Instructions, onions, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    Basket of Shallots THE SHALLOTS DISCUSSED IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://harvesting-history.com/product-category/roots-sets/shallots/ This newsletter contains information that was discussed in our August 24, 2019 newsletter. However, if you are like me, I was not paying attention to shallots in August, so I am repeating and embellishing the info from that newsletter. Shallots are believed to have originated in the region of Palestine and Israel, specifically a port city now a part of Israel known as Ashkelon. It is a curious fact that the term, scallion, which we use to describe bunching onions, is a corruption of Ashkelon. The shallot’s scientific name, Allium cepa, describes a group of onion-like plants including onions, walking onions and multiplier onions. Years ago, shallots were called multiplier onions,

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  • The Rarest Color in Nature-Six Bulbs That Produce Dazzling Displays of Blue

    Oct 22, 2019 Categories: Bulbs, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, onions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    PHOTO OF MRS. JAMES’ ORIGINAL BLUE GARDEN FROM 1913 The Rarest Color in Nature- Six Bulbs That Produce Dazzling Displays of Blue ALL OF THE BULBS DISCUSSED IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://harvesting-history.com/product-category/flower-bulbs-tubers/bulbs-for-fall-planting/ FOR SPECIFIC FLOWER BULBS, YOU CAN CLICK ON THE “BUY NOW” BUTTON LOCATED ON EACH PHOTO AND THAT BUTTON WILL TAKE YOU TO THE WEBPAGE WHICH DISCUSSES THAT BULB At Harvesting History we often are asked to help customers choose flowers based on color. “I am looking for reds or purples or whites, etc” The most frequently requested color is true blue, not bluish purple or periwinkle blue, but true blue. Ironically, the rarest of all pure colors in the flower world is true blue. There are thousands, perhaps more, of bluish-purple blossoms, but true blue occurs

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  • Fall Planting – Onions

    Aug 26, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Growing Instructions, onions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    Tried to Grow Onions and Failed – Here’s the Secret to Success Fall Planting – Onions As gardeners we have come to think of autumn as the end of the gardening season. It is anything but the end. Autumn, for each of you, represents the beginning of next year’s gardening season, and there is no better way to begin next year’s season than by planting onions, shallots and elephant garlic. Today, we are going to discuss onions, a vegetable that can or should be planted in the fall. Onions can be planted in the fall for a mid-summer crop. They can also be planted in the spring for a late autumn or early winter crop. Onions are one of the most important home garden crops available for cultivation today.

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  • Shallots, For Best Results Plant These Little Buggers in the Fall

    Aug 25, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garden Tools, Growing Instructions, onions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    Basket of Shallots Shallots, For Best Results Plant These Little Buggers in the Fall Many of our winter hardy vegetables – onion and elephant garlic sets, parsnips, salsify, etc. - can be planted in both the spring or the fall, but to be really successful with shallots, you should try to plant them in the fall. Shallots are sold as sets, but unlike onion sets where each ‘set’ is a baby onion and will produce a single mature onion, a shallot ‘set’ can be a nearly mature single shallot and this shallot will produce 4-6 mature shallots. From a single sack of 6 shallots you should expect to get 25-40 shallots. Shallot Sets Buy Now for Fall Planting Shallots benefit greatly from being planted in soil that has been amended with Rock

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  • Plant America with a Garden of Heirlooms

    Sep 04, 2018 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Garlic, onions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Vegetables

    A Garden of Heirlooms for Your Organization’s Volunteer Projects For more than a decade now, members of the Harvesting History management team have traveled this country visiting libraries, museums, arboretums, parks, 'pop-up' urban gardens and participating in hundreds of flower shows, harvest festivals, plant sales, state fairs, county fairs and community festivals. We have marveled at the thousands of magnificent container gardens, children’s gardens, native plant gardens, shade gardens, serenity gardens, gardens of hope, gardens of peace, gardens of healing, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, flower gardens, etc. that are daily, weekly  and seasonally nourished and maintained by the tireless volunteers associated with America’s horticultural organizations. We believe that the volunteers from America’s horticultural organizations like the National Garden Clubs, Federated Garden Clubs of America, Men’s Garden Clubs, the

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