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I too grow multiplying onions and enjoy the tops almost as much the white part. We have used pvc to hoop several of our raised beds so they can be covered for warmth and protection. We have a very small yard but anything we grow is something we don’t have to buy.  We keep our two year old grandson everyday so we garden on the weekends. Thanks so very much for your encouragement 

Excellent use of your land! I’d rather have food than a long green lawn! We have been eating from our pantry for months and when I inventoried this week I realized I won’t need green beans or tomatoes this year. So I am going to try limas and green peas (yet again) so I can make homemade soup. We love it and often add our own meat to it. I planted short day onions this past week even though it seemed early. In two weeks I’ll plant our potatoes, turnips, collards, cabbage, and carrots. Stay safe with these storms coming through!! 

I wonder, does your local library have a “seed library” like ours does? Every season the librarians put out an entire catalog of seed packets for anyone to take home and plant. The only rule is that after you’ve harvested what you grow, you let a few plants go to seed and return the seeds to the library for next year. The library also provides growing instructions for each plant. Our library has some really interesting native plants that I would not have known could be eaten! 

We can only plant short day onions here and when I looked up multiplier onions it said they weren’t recommended for our area. I grew sweet onions from seed but a vole or mouse ate the plants. I am slowly enlarging my raised bed area. Not too big, I can’t do that anymore , but enough to help the food bill. 

I am steadily getting rid of my final debt. Of course a few large things will have to be replaced at some point; my flooring is damaged in numerous places and some appliances are going to give out before long. I hope to do all that in cash when the time comes. 

I am living carefully but not fearfully. I know things can get hard in the future but I hold on to the faith that will help me face it. My grandmothers were born in 1893 and 1896. My husband’s grandmother was born in the 1870’s and rode in a covered wagon to Florida because they could no longer make it in North Carolina after the war. The things they went through!  They sent sons to wars, weathered the flu epidemic in 1918, lived without electricity and running water, and saw bank failures and the Depression. But they made it. If we are resourceful, we can too.  Thanks for encouraging us!

Another wonderful read! I am getting my garden ready. I pulled some regular plants out of the yard this year that just weren't performing well over the years so now I have some extra space. I also have an indoor aerogarden I was given for a gift. I use it for lettuce and catnip. Our weather and altitude makes gardening interesting at times but I shall push on. I thought to myself, I wonder how the latest couple generations will handle future hard times, as we all know they will never end.  The amount of conveniences they were born into and those that developed into normal, and without many people left that lived with way less conveniences (like running water!) to tell the tales and give advice, makes me wonder how they will cope. I work remotely for a company that ships daily use products to the home and the amount of people yelling that they placed an order one night and have full expectations it should be there by next day is staggering! These  are NOT all young people. I think they have forgotten how it used to take time but have now grown accustomed to getting what they want when they demand it. We live in a "microwave is taking too long" society and I fear it will get worse. Thank you for making sure the skills and ways of life necessary to get through the tougher times are still being put out there for advice and learning. I will continue to learn and practice them, and feel much more in touch with my home because of it. 

First glad you are well and didn’t suffer any damage from the storm. 
I’ve not had to grow onions for the past 5 years because the farmer who leased the farm land around us grew them and we had all we wanted. We recently moved so I will be planting some reds and some white storage varieties.  With the move, I didn’t have much time to research.  
Thursday and Friday are supposed to be good days to plant root crops so guess where I’ll be 

I realize everything that is plugged in uses electricity. A fan uses much less electricity than A/C. An electric blanket uses much less electricity than the central heat. I view these devices as saving money. I can set the A/C at a higher temp w/ the fan blowing on me. We can turn down the heat to a low setting in the winter with an electric blanket for warmth. We are moving to a newly built house that has a tankless water heater, water saving toilets, and a new A/C, heating system. It is also 1/2 the size of our current house. I am eager to see what utility savings will be had. The homeowner's insurance is also less expensive. I didn't realize that new homes have a cheaper rate. There is a less likely chance that there will be a claim as everything is new. The new place was paid w/ cash. I do not like to be in debt to anyone. There is great security in having a roof over your head & owning it outright.

There is a wonderful series that you can watch on YouTube, The Wartime Kitchen and Garden. It is about how people in Britain grew and cooked food at home during World War II.