SEED STORIES | Wethersfield Red: The Pride Of Oniontown

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4 жыл бұрын

This plump, flattened onion with the vivid purple-red skin made Wethersfield the center of the New England onion trade for more than a century. The onion fields faded, but in their place grew a thriving new agricultural enterprise: seed houses. Learn the wonderful story of the Wethersfield Red onion!

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@suburbanhomesteaderwy-az 4 жыл бұрын

Love the history you share.

@masuganut2082 3 жыл бұрын

Ordered these and so excited!!! Never been successful with onions. One reviewer on your site said they tried (as an experiment) kept one of these sitting and waiting to be eaten for 13 months. And they said it was just as delicious as it was at one month! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@HeavensEssentials 4 жыл бұрын

I love these seed stories, they are put together so well, including a perfect voice.☺️

@RareSeedsBC 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@jeremybyington 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks.

@etpeloquin 4 жыл бұрын

I live just forty minutes from Wethersfield. What a beautiful town! I plan to grow these onions from seed in 2020!

@PrincessShaBooBoo 4 жыл бұрын

💚 I would like to try these 👩🏾‍🌾

@HISHappyIncheslittlehomeStead 4 жыл бұрын

Loves these videos about the history of the seeds! 🤗❤️🌱

@alexisd2587 4 жыл бұрын

love this! I was born and raised in CT. I am going to try to grow these this year.

@Beaguins 4 жыл бұрын

I have grown these and like them a lot. They keep well and are especially good raw. Grow them and try them on salads!

@AOMCI2009Tomahawk 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This video would be great to show kids in schools around there :-)

@RareSeedsBC 4 жыл бұрын

I agree! One of the best things about heirlooms is that they are a great hands on teaching tool, it's an added bonus that we can also eat them :)

@seedaholicgardens9085 4 жыл бұрын

Thsnk you Michelle!Another one we all have to try now being ispired by the history of the seeds is super motivating!I'm going to need a work from home job with you guys, so i can get the employeee discount in order to afford all the seeds i need-er want- to buy!😊

@RareSeedsBC 4 жыл бұрын

time to start a micro farm! ;D

@SDMountainMan 4 жыл бұрын

Hi diebullfrog sent me looks like I have a lot to learn here

@daddyjohn2007 4 жыл бұрын

😎👍👌🖖✌😁

@clementsfamily4854 Жыл бұрын

I'm in 8b and am trying to choose between planting Wethersfield Red or Cabernet this year. I don't normally grow onions, as my husband's stomach cannot tolerate them raw. However, we now have a few dehydrators, and I would like to make up my own onion powder. I got the seeds free from my local library, so I don't think that I received many seeds per package. Perhaps I should plant both?

@RareSeedsBC Жыл бұрын

Hi there -- If you have room, do plant them both so that you can compare how they perform in your growing conditions!

@aftvsfdrum7857 4 жыл бұрын

Do they still suffer from pink root fungus?

@RareSeedsBC 4 жыл бұрын

Yes as far as we know, resistance or lack there of is still the same, i dont believe any further breeding has been done on the variety since the pink root fungus susceptibility tests were done on them in the 60's!