{"id":228,"date":"2017-07-12T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbs.widevalley.net\/?p=228"},"modified":"2017-07-12T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:25:48","slug":"onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/12\/onion\/","title":{"rendered":"Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Onion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The onion plant has a fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and its bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell when a certain day-length is reached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The bulbs are composed of shortened, compressed, underground stems surrounded by fleshy modified scale (leaves) that envelop a central bud at the tip of the stem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the autumn (or in spring, in the case of overwintering onions), the foliage dies down and the outer layers of the bulb become dry and brittle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The crop is harvested and dried and the onions are ready for use or storage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The crop is prone to attack by a number of pests and diseases, particularly the onion fly, the onion eelworm, and various fungi cause rotting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some varieties of A. cepa, such as shallots and potato onions, produce multiple bulbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Onions are cultivated and used around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a food item, they are usually served cooked, as a vegetable or part of a prepared savoury dish, but can also be eaten raw or used to make pickles or chutneys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They are pungent when chopped and contain certain chemical substances which irritate the eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onion The onion plant has a fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and its bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell when a certain<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}