| Category | Crop |
|---|---|
| Planted as | Onion |
A farmland crop planted from the bulb itself — there are no seeds. When the bulb swells at the base it is ready; break it for onions. Cut it with a sickle and you get spring onion too — there is no separate spring-onion bed. The first bulb comes from wild onion in a meadow.
Obtaining
- Harvested from Onion
Generation
- Wild patch: meadow
Ecological basis
Wild relatives of onion are concentrated in dry Central and western Asian grasslands and mountain slopes. Meadow represents a sunny upland site.
Usage
A sickle brings the tops
Broken by hand it gives onions alone. Cut with a sickle and the green tops come off as spring onion — the same bargain rice makes with straw. Bring a sickle if you want the tops.
When the bulb swells
Ripeness shows at the base, not in the height. The bed is all leaves until the last stage, when a brown bulb finally shows above the soil.
As an ingredient
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Advancements
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