green onions; a bunch of not the best looking ones are $1.69 cdn.

[parkstre...@gmail.com]

kind of pricey for what you get. celery hearts are $3.99. a tad pricey, but i purchased some anyway. now i wish that i would have bought the green onions because i love them in a salad. cooking onions will have to do.

[Jinx the Minx]

Have you ever thought of buying untrimmed celery? It’s always half the
price.

[penm...@aol.com]

And celery hearts are a big rip off, it's old celery that's trimmed of
its spoiled parts... romain hearts too.

[A Moose in Love]

the untrimmed celery is about the same price as celery hearts. it's $3.48.

[Jinx the Minx]

Agreed. And I won’t make soup without those celery tops! Those who buy the
hearts are missing out.

[Jinx the Minx]

I’m not sure where you live, but $3.50 for celery is ridiculous. Not even
the “organic” celery is that much in my stores.

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 07:58:45 -0800 (PST), parkstre...@gmail.com
wrote:

>kind of pricey for what you get. celery hearts are $3.99. a tad pricey, but i purchased some anyway. now i wish that i would have bought the green onions because i love them in a salad. cooking onions will have to do.

ok first go to dollar tree and buy something, anything that can hold
about 5 inches of dirt and that will sit on a window seal actually buy
two of then just make sure they can stack and one will sit inside the
other. Go to a store that sells potting soil get a small bag, enough
to fill one of your containers. Take one of your containers and poke
several small holes in them, larger than pin holes maybe 1/4 inch in
diameter. Put the container with the holes inside you other empty
container then with the container with holes on top fill it with your
dirt/potting soil. Go to a grocery store and but one bunch of green
onions, fresh with the roots still on. Plant the rooted end inside the
potting soil then carefully cut the green onions just above the white
ends, use the onions as needed. water your cut/planted rooted ends...
not too much water but you do want all of your dirt moist. after 5
minutes take your top container out and empty the water in the other
in the sink and place your plants back inside the empty container..

Congrats you will never ever have to buy green onions again, nor will
you ever need to go to the store just for that again


Additional notes:
Water at least once a week always dump excess water after it has all
drained. These plants do very well outside, I have had mine outside
all winter and we have had a couple freezes and they did just fine.

--

____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____

[penm...@aol.com]

Yesterday I bought a giant stalk of perfect Foxy celery for $1.89.
Organic simply means "May I pick your pocket?"
Celery hearts is a fraud, it's a method of marketing old celery before
it hits the compost heap... they trim away the rotted parts and call
it hearts... usually three in a plastic bag.. to add insult to injury
it's very often sold as organic and at double the regular rip off
price.
For the moroons and imbeciles there is no such thing as organic
produce... I'd be much more apt to believe were it marketed as
orgasmic... yesterday I saw some lovely long orgasmic English seedless
salad cukes already wraped in condoms. ;)

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

On Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:41:27 -0600,
Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl wrote:

>On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 07:58:45 -0800 (PST), parkstre...@gmail.com
>wrote:
>
>>kind of pricey for what you get. celery hearts are $3.99. a tad pricey, but i purchased some anyway. now i wish that i would have bought the green onions because i love them in a salad. cooking onions will have to do.
>
>ok first go to dollar tree and buy something, anything that can hold
>about 5 inches of dirt and that will sit on a window seal actually buy
>two of then just make sure they can stack and one will sit inside the
>other. Go to a store that sells potting soil get a small bag, enough
>to fill one of your containers. Take one of your containers and poke
>several small holes in

the bottom

> larger than pin holes maybe 1/4 inch in
>diameter. Put the container with the holes inside you other empty

>container then with the container with holes on top, fill it with your

>dirt/potting soil. Go to a grocery store and

buy

[Julie Bove]

"Jinx the Minx" <jinx...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:q5bqi0$p3u$1...@dont-email.me...

Both celery and green onions have gone way up in price. And sometimes I have
to buy far more green onions than I want. My recent problem with untrimmed
celery is that it's super skinny. I like to eat it stuffed and skinny
doesn't work so well there/

[Julie Bove]

"Jinx the Minx" <jinx...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:q5c257$9si$1...@dont-email.me...

I love the leaves in soup but these days there aren't many leaves left on so
I keep dried leaves.

[Julie Bove]

"Jinx the Minx" <jinx...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:q5c3n6$jno$1...@dont-email.me...

I can't remember the price at Walmart yesterday but high enough that I
wouldn't buy it.

[Julie Bove]

<Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl> wrote in message
news:bc5j7elrgl5lgkt5i...@4ax.com...

Doesn't always work here. I have a big planter that I use for tomatoes and
onions. Our growing season is short so my tomatoes are from larger plants.
Onions are from sets. Some winters, the onions keep. Everything died off
this year. Waaay too cold.

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

well I am pretty much on the gulf coast. so the growing season is
nearly year round for more hearty species. for everything else growing
season is nearly 9 months a year like I said it froze as in below 32
f or 0c for only a couple of days this year.. below 45 for maybe a
week and a half below 50 for like 2 weeks below 65 for about a 2
months

[Julie Bove]

<Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl> wrote in message
news:1plj7e1pl5jsv6a6j...@4ax.com...

I'm in WA. Normally known for mild weather but this has been the coldest
winter in over 50 years and our summers seem to be getting hotter.

[Leonard Blaisdell]

In article <q5bqi0$p3u$1...@dont-email.me>, Jinx the Minx

> Have you ever thought of buying untrimmed celery? It零 always half the
> price.

And it's all good, right down through the heart.

leo

[Sqwertz]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 07:58:45 -0800 (PST), parkstre...@gmail.com
wrote:

$.33-$.49 all day long every day (except Christmas and Easter) here
in Texas. Bunches of spring onions are $.78.

I heard that if you go down and stand on the Mexican side of the
border they might let you live here too. Just bring your Moose
permit.

-sw

[Sqwertz]

Dumbass Strikes Again!

-sw

[Sqwertz]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 19:45:43 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx wrote:

> <penm...@aol.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 17:36:00 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx
>> <jinx...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> <parkstre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> kind of pricey for what you get. celery hearts are $3.99. a tad pricey,
>>>> but i purchased some anyway. now i wish that i would have bought the
>>>> green onions because i love them in a salad. cooking onions will have to do.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you ever thought of buying untrimmed celery? It’s always half the
>>> price.
>>
>> And celery hearts are a big rip off, it's old celery that's trimmed of
>> its spoiled parts... romain hearts too.
>>
>
> Agreed.

You really believe that, too? Wow. What do you think about
artichoke hearts?

-sw

[Sqwertz]

$.88 here. Lest I be called a Sheldon, the proof:

https://www.heb.com/product-detail/fresh-celery/325173

-sw

[A Moose in Love]

On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 12:36:04 PM UTC-5, Jinx the Minx wrote:

i checked out both. the untrimmed was expensive as well. $3.49.

[A Moose in Love]

i'm from southwestern ontaro, canada.

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 18:34:37 -0800, "Julie Bove"

give it a few years, it will change....
I remember a few years back it rained like 4 times in like 2 years...
now the damn rain will not freakin stop so I can ride my bike. It has
rained everyday for the last three days and there is at least a 40%
chance that it will rain for the next 7 days....

It is so damn stupid... All of my damn plants are going to die and it
is going to piss me the hell off because I just planted the little
buggers not even 2 weeks ago when there actually was a break in the
rain for like 2 days...

[Ed Pawlowski]

Must be the freight. Forget the exact price, but both are under $2 here.

[cshenk]

Personally I have uses for the leaves and stems in various cookery here
so the whole is better for us.

[cshenk]

Sqwertz wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 07:58:45 -0800 (PST), parkstre...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> > kind of pricey for what you get. celery hearts are $3.99. a tad
> > pricey, but i purchased some anyway. now i wish that i would
> > have bought the green onions because i love them in a salad.
> > cooking onions will have to do.
>
> $.33-$.49 all day long every day (except Christmas and Easter) here
> in Texas. Bunches of spring onions are $.78.
>
>

> -sw

I buy them 1-2 times a year on average but I plant the bottoms in
raised planters and snip what's needed 9 months of the year. Got my
lettuce started already and the green onions and chives are comming up
nicely.

[cshenk]

More here but at this season, if it's local then it's from the hot
houses. Nominally 1.89-2.29 store depending for whole celery.

I get my green onions at 2 bunches for 1$ at the Asian American Market.
Price stays stable but size of bunches are smaller in winter.

[cshenk]

Yeah, would all be hot house or shipped from lower USA. Cost to heat
or ship will do that. My guess is it's a lot cheaper in summer for you!

[songbird]

parkstre...@gmail.com wrote:
> kind of pricey for what you get. celery hearts are $3.99. a tad pricey, but i purchased some anyway. now i wish that i would have bought the green onions because i love them in a salad. cooking onions will have to do.

if you get a chance grow some green garlic (plant
garlic cloves in the fall extra deep then you can
dig it anytime in the spring/early summer and use
it just like a green onion or bunching onion stalk).

the more you cook it the more it tastes like a
green onion. if you use it fresher it has more
of the garlic taste.

once you start growing your own garlic you can
also have a surplus of small garlic cloves that
can be planted in pots and then trimmed back and
eaten through the winter.


songbird

[Gary]

cshenk wrote:
> Got my
> lettuce started already and the green onions and chives are comming up
> nicely.

Warning to you, cshenk. 2-3 mornings next week....t,w,th or so,
morning temps will fall down into the mid 20'sF or lower. Cover
your sprouting plants those nights or lose them.

[jmcquown]

I didn't gather from what the OP posted that they are interested in
growing garlic or green onions or anything else. Merely reported the
ridiculous prices they're willing to pay.

I can't say I've ever seen a price that high on a bunch of green onions.
I don't buy celery hearts. I buy the entire bundle of celery, leaves
and all. All of it can be used (and also frozen for later use).

A rule of thumb: If someone at the grocery store/market has to do all
the work for you, of course they're going to charge more.

Jill

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

I am trying something different this year.... I am attempting to grow
a hella bunch of cress. I have 4-6 test pots with cress, I am testing
peanut shells as a growing medium also gravel and a little dirt just
to see what works best, I have another large pot with several herbs in
it chives camomile and cress that I keep inside near a window also as
a test to see how that goes. I also have a couple of regular pots full
of potting soil with cress to see how that goes... Water cress is an
incredibly healthy low cal food. They are great as a salad with a
mustard vinaigrette dressing.

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 12:29:44 -0500, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

>On 3/2/2019 11:29 AM, songbird wrote:
>> parkstre...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> kind of pricey for what you get. celery hearts are $3.99. a tad pricey, but i purchased some anyway. now i wish that i would have bought the green onions because i love them in a salad. cooking onions will have to do.
>>
>> if you get a chance grow some green garlic (plant
>> garlic cloves in the fall extra deep then you can
>> dig it anytime in the spring/early summer and use
>> it just like a green onion or bunching onion stalk).
>>
>> the more you cook it the more it tastes like a
>> green onion. if you use it fresher it has more
>> of the garlic taste.
>>
>> once you start growing your own garlic you can
>> also have a surplus of small garlic cloves that
>> can be planted in pots and then trimmed back and
>> eaten through the winter.
>>
>>
>> songbird
>>
>I didn't gather from what the OP posted that they are interested in
>growing garlic or green onions or anything else. Merely reported the
>ridiculous prices they're willing to pay.

Oh man I am so sorry that I brought up a suggestion that may help some
people save a little time and a little money whilest giving then a new
hobby and something to do during the day and increasing their physical
activity and helping their foods and various recipes taste
better/fresher by using ingredients that they just harvested from
their back yards or window seal.

>
>I can't say I've ever seen a price that high on a bunch of green onions.
> I don't buy celery hearts. I buy the entire bundle of celery, leaves
>and all. All of it can be used (and also frozen for later use).
>
>A rule of thumb: If someone at the grocery store/market has to do all
>the work for you, of course they're going to charge more.
>
>Jill

[cshenk]

Yeah, I saw that. Might lose a 50cent lettuce seed pack but the chives
were planted in 1996 and the green onions sporadically 1996-2015
depending.

Might lose the lettuce...

[cshenk]

I need to try that!

[songbird]

cshenk wrote:
...

...re green garlic...

> I need to try that!

it is a good way to get green things in the middle
of winter inside.

the garlic i grow here is a hardneck garlic which
gets prolific scapes and i've always had more than
i can ever use.

i went to a seed swap a week ago and just on a
whim i took a container of scapes that i had left
from last summer that were sprouting. they were
popular even if it was an off/odd season to plant
them here (the ground is frozen so you have to
pot them up or eat them because they want to grow
now). anyways, because they were so popular and
i gave the entire container away i cooked up a
quick webpage for them so people would know what
to do with them (it still needs more editing and
some more pictures but at least it contains the
basic information they'll need):

http://www.anthive.com/project/garlic/


songbird


songbird

[penm...@aol.com]

Onions are grown from a bulb and tolerate sub sero temperatures very
well... even once sprouted the green part might be a gonner but the
bulb will continue to produce new green shoots, with the entire intent
to reproduce, by sending out side bulbs.

>Might lose the lettuce...

Lettuce being a cool weather crop an interval of frost won't hurt the
plant... may lose some outer more mature leaves but the plant will be
fine and continue to grow.