Do onion fields smell like onions?
Yes.
Not the onion
I’d say this is the onion
No, it’s the onionS.
This is because farming is fucking exhausting and he just couldn’t make it back to the house.
Your grandpa jerka off in his onion field under the guise of taking a nap… which is not an argument against but rather an argument for your grandpa winning at life.
This man has everything a man needs. Well, except a robotic combine harvester obviously.
Thank you for the onions.
He’s actually having a stroke
This is adorable, but all I can think of is bugs and spiders and ants.
Its weird, as a kid i had no problem laying/rolling around in grass.
At some point a switch flipped in my head and grass everywhere ‘became infested’ with biting ants, hidden poop, and mud.
Anything in that soil has died decades ago.
I lie down in my backyard. In Australia. There are ants of all kinds. The occasional little spider goes past. Midges and butterflies and dragonflies and bees. The birds have gotten used to me so they walk within feet of me too.
They go about their business and I, mine. No harm has come to me. It’s nice to be part of their world sometimes.
Just don’t do like my great grandfather that slept for a bit on wet grass and got a pneumonia because of it and died. Of course nowadays medicine is better but it can still happen.
He got a pneumonia from laying on wet grass? Was it cold?
That’s not how you get pneumonia, but he may have weakened his immune system through exposure to make him more susceptible to viruses.
Or he had a heat stroke… Go help him.
And lose my chance to take the farm?
That sweet, sweet onion money.
If you’ve ever wondered what The Big Onion wants you to think and do, here’s your chance to find out.
hmm… breathing in some of the good pesticides…
He’s actually laying on a giant brown trampoline
The second photo was taken a split second before he was bounced into the stratosphere.
Wheeeeee
Onions and field naps. This guy is living his best Shrek life.
Across the plants‽ Is he mad‽
+1 for interrobang
I’m not going to start using it.
He’s dead
Onions don’t give a fuck, you can top the foliage and that shit will just grow back.
TIL onions enjoy being dominated
Onions are part of the Allium family, along with garlic, lilies, chives, etc. It’s very tough.
Never seen an onion field. What an ugly crop.
There is no actively growing onions in the field. It looks like it’s about ready to seed.
The brown rows is likely barley. It’s used as a cover crop over sandy soil. Before they plant the onions they spray the field with an herbicide. The beds are cultivated and seeded leaving a few inches of the dead barley.
The rows of dead barely acts as a windbreak to reduce sandblasting of the young plants with the wind.
There’s layers to it though
Doesn’t matter; tastes amazing
I mean they aren’t exactly pretty, but when they aren’t dead/not-yet-planted they look like this
Onions farm? Each year same plant? That’s not good for soil.
A common practice used to be rotating the fields, but unfortunately as pesticides and fertilizers have “improved,” it’s less common for big farms like this.
One way to tell if you have healthy soil is to poke into the dirt and see how long it takes to find a worm. Fields like this? Good luck finding any.