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“Life of a Southern Farmer: Onions”

When one thinks of onions they don’t get a sweet taste in their mouth, or do they? According to Bobby Flay, the Vidalia onion is not only the most famous but also the only onion there is (Vidalia Onions, 2014). However, this is knowingly not true, but these onions are one of the few that are actually sweet in flavor. They are grown in Vidalia, Georgia, which is about

http://www.gfb.org/aboutus/georgia_agriculture.html
http://www.gfb.org/aboutus/georgia_agriculture.html

an hour and a half from my house. I have played many of softball tournaments here in the onion town. It is extremely hot as well as humid, like most of the state. What set it apart from most towns are its well-known onions and its abundance of annoying gnats. For some reason, its yellow granex hybrid seed, planted anywhere else in the world, does not produce onions as sweet as the Vidalia. Georgia’s vast amount of rainfall causes our soil to contain a lot of sulfur, which makes our onions so sweet. This is what makes our onions so popular in addition to unique.

http://www.vidaliaonion.org/about_us