There have been some reports of bad onions from this year’s Vidalia Onions Sales fundraiser. Did some research and it turns out that growing onions in Georgia is as tricky as growing potatoes in Maine. During this past-year’s onion growing season Georgia experienced two weather phenomena that impacted the onions. First, in December they experienced several days of below freezing temperatures which tends to confuse the onions and when it gets warm again they want to “bolt” and go to seed. This is usually handled by a replanting if not too late in the season. The second, and what is causing what we are seeing, was severe and prolonged rain part way into the growing season. This causes the onions to turn partially brown and soft on the inside. Unfortunately this is not discovered until the onions are used. For us this appears to be causing several onions per bag to be lost. This is the first season that we have experienced this and we want to assure our supporters that this is not due to bad handling during harvesting, shipping, or delivery. The club wants to thank all our fundraiser supporters and we look forward to a better harvest next year. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we will not experience this year’s loses.