When our customers are used to a variety of plant for over fifty years it is unnerving to have to change. Last fall the problem happened with onions. We have sold Stockton Red Onions since 1950 and people love them. We had to replace them with Red Burger Onions.

 The large sweet onions that are so popular around here, were a hallmark of the onion grower from Sacramento to Merced. Unfortunately, everything must end eventually. Our grower of onions is primarily a grower for the farmers to put out in the fields and over the last several years they have been switching to Red Burger Onion. I know a lot of our customers were worried about the change we were forced to make last fall.

Tammi, who is our Garden Crew office person, is one of them. I know she was worried that the new variety wouldn't be as good as the old standard. A few days ago she caught a call from a customer that was concerned that the onions he was growing weren't as big as he was used to.  Even though she didn’t think the onions were finished, she decided to dig a few and see what they looked like.

I think she was reassured that her onion crop would be as good as before. I will do an additional post when the final growing is over, but here are some early pictures.

This is a picture that I took in front of the office yesterday morning. What do you think. 

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