Plant Once, Harvest for a Lifetime | I'itoi Onions, The Perfect Desert Crop | Survival Crops 

Your cats are beasts!

2:52 😂 best part of whole video 📹

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We have one onion left in our garden from your spring tour! It nearly died off but is very resilient and is in its second act. Hopefully we can turn it into an entire bed eventually.

Amazing to see how prolific the onions are. How do they compare to other onion varieties? Or shallots? Also wonderful to see your “working” cats doing their job. Plus being adorable. 🐱🐱🐱

Yay thank you for propagating them I’m here locally and would love to get some in the fall! I’m on your email list and will keep an eye out! ❤

A great video to watch over breakfast. 3 eggs sunnyside up w/ toast and fried ham. Thanks for reminding me of the shallots I have sitting in the kitchen. I'll use them when I make some soup later on today. Never heard of those I'itoi onions before I've been trying to encourage people to grow Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion) because it's both native and tasty. Lots of people are growing "decorative" Alliums in their landscapes that are not native, so I'm glad to learn of another native that can be used. Even just to look at, the Nodding Onion is a pretty addition to the yard. Probably too wet in these parts for the I'itoi Onion you've got there, so the Nodding Onion could be a good alternative for folks in other Eco-regions.

Go cats go!

Has a truce been acheived in the Great Wittmann Goat wars yet? 😂 I'll keep an eye out for your farm tour in the fall. I want to try those opinions over here in New River, also.

Nice crew you gots.

Wow, l just love your videos. Just curious: is the PVC frame above the onions for watering purposes, or to support shading material?

Hi , I am amazed with your videos . Can I know how you dowatering for your vegetable garden .

Hi guys! I love perennial onions, I really want to add the i’itoy to my garden. One of the true multiplying onion varieties I have that seems very similar to the I’itoy is called Louisiana Everbearing Shallot, and the cool thing about it is you just pull the clump up, break it apart and plant it right back if you’re not going to use them all and they just start growing new clumps of onions. No need on that variety to cure and store them, which for me is ideal because I’m too disorganized to do it, hahaha . I also have Egyptian walking onions which are kind of a trip. They will clump a little but they grow “flowers” that are actually little clumps of onions, bulbs and stems in all and when they break over and touch the soil they root in and form a clump and keep doing it over and over. I haven’t eaten any yet because I just got 10 bulbs to start with and they’re finally starting to “walk”. I love that the cats are helping control the varmints, I hate those little house finches or whatever they are, nasty little invasive birds that destroy fruit as well as bring all kinds of lice, mites, and diseases with them when they visit your chickens and waterfowl. When I was on the ranch I used to “control” them with a 12 gauge shotgun, lol, but now I only have 2 acres and lots of neighbors so I can’t do much about them.

Do you plan any experiments with onion varieties and which store best?

I have a question. On your raised beds and watering, how many do you have running on the same zone? And how big is each bed?

Really enjoy watching the kitties interact with you guys while you're going about your daily chores, as well as doing the hunting and chowing down which comes naturally. Its warming up along the SoCal coast as well. Cheers....

For livestock guardian dogs. Check out humane society and Maricopa animal control, they have some Anatolian Shepard mix and some pyranese pups. But I hope you will let them in during the day to escape the heat. They tend to be nocturnal but I’m sure they will suffer in our heat.

Hi are you collecting any of the seeds ???

You might consider a donkey. They are said to be territorial.

So, guys, ....my wife's questions: For those that do NOT know.........1) Why do you let them (onions) dry and how long do you cure them? 2) What do you do with them after curing them? 3) How do you use or preserve them? 4) How do you use the green tops in winter time? My ? is, How many garden beds did you use to get such a large harvest and how big are the garden beds? Cats are having a blast with the birds - lol. So.....guardian dogs for the farm.....what about your dog allergies?

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I'm curious where in AZ you live. I live in Tucson.

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Excelelnt video. Edge of Nowhere Farm Great desert s,all farm Model. I found jujube pictures there too. Both are our mentors

Donkeys.

Can you eat the peel? I would find it tedious to prep them to eat.

Very inspirative video, thanks for that! ❤ Are you trying to do most of your outdoor work early in the morning because ot the heat, especially during summer and than working inside during the day? When are you usually wake up? 😊 Greetings from Slovakia ❤❤❤❤

I've tried a few onions that in the northern states do really well but can't hang with the deep south's heat and humidity . I have one that dies back in the heat of summer and comes back in late fall, I've had it for many years and have no idea the name. Most people call them nesting onions.

I really like those little onions. They have a really good flavor. They grow well for me also here in Texas. I hardly have to do anything to them after they are planted. Then when the tops die down from the heat I just pull them up and put in my chili peppers, Texas red peas and basil because those are also easy here and love the heat.