Catalog Review: Dixondale Farms

Dixondale Farms is celebrating 100 years of onion plants and years of satisfied customers.

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I ’ve always been a sports fan of growing Allium cepa , but it was n’t until last twelvemonth that I grow the larger traditional globe onions . We use onions often in the kitchen , so they have become a mainstay in the garden . Since I ’ve been premise to Dixondale Farms ’ catalog of onion plants , I now have access to some capital varieties for my country .

Dixondale Farms is celebrate a century under their smash , providing a wide potpourri of onion plants to gardeners and Fannie Farmer since 1913 . Their current catalog displays their onion plant offerings , but is also a homage to the company ’s 100 - year history . To quote Jeanie Frazier , wife of Bruce Frazier , the company ’s President , “ While engineering has changed the face of farming in my 57 year , I can only imagine how different it is now than in 1913 . What has n’t changed in the preceding 100 yr is the great unwashed ’s lovemaking of gardening . ”

The catalog is a tangible pleasure to search through . Although it is only 20 page long , their catalog is filled with great picture taking and art . The catalogue uses prosperous to keep abreast maps of the rural area to show the areas of short - daytime , average - day , and long - day onion varieties . The catalog itself is divided into these same areas in their plant life listing .

The catalogue not only features picture of the dissimilar onion varieties , it also include photo send in by customers displaying their prized harvests . The variety descriptions are easy to interpret , and cater size of it and storage potential of the onion . Candy ( can ) is their most popular variety , having sold over 90 million plant and is recommended for beginning nurseryman .

The sum go around of the catalog is an informative timeline and pictorial story of the party . After the short , intermediate , and prospicient - mean solar day variety itemisation , they devote a page to specialty onion variety and the onion plant ’s cousin , the leek . After a page on onion growing confidential information , the remain few pages of their catalogue offer their product listings . They hold various fertilizers , weed restraint , disease prevention , and harvesting point .

If it ’s onions you ’re originate , Dixondale Farms has big selection , and as evidence by the slap-up pic , many glad customers .

To quest a written matter of their catalogue , or to order their Allium cepa plant life and ware , visithttps://www.dixondalefarms.com .

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