I used to struggle growing onions for a few key reasons: I was growing the wrong types, and planting at the wrong times. These mistakes are CRUCIAL to avoid with onions, which start to produce bulbs based on the day-length of your growing zone. Choose the wrong ones, and you’ll never get them to bulb up into epic onions.
0:00 – Intro
0:55 – How Onions Grow
1:54 – 3 Types of Onions
3:12 – Seeds, Sets, or Transplants
5:45 – Outro
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Recap: Choose the right variety! Short, Intermediate, or Long-Day onion. Then, decide if you're planting by seed, set, or transplant. THEN, care for your onion babies like your life depends on it. Cultivate nice, healthy, dark green leaves and you'll have incredible bulbs.
Excellent information on growing onions. Do you think elevation changes anything? Im in New Mexico and we are over 5,200 feet here so the sun is stronger.
Damn my zone is 0 to 2
Great info. Could you do a video on how to deter the famous onion maggot. I literally tried everything that I researched online … with no success.
This is interesting, I live in Canada, so I guess I’m in a good spot for onions!
I am on the northern Gulf Coast at 30 degrees 22 minutes latitude so I grow short day onions. For me the best way is to start seeds in September or October in flats and transplant them into the garden mid January to mid February. By about the first of May I am pulling lots of big delicious onions.
Great and informative video! I'm in Southern California, West LA specifically. What months would you start onion seeds from? And what type of fertilizer would you use?
Where do you buy the seeds for your area?
2:26 Maryland and West Virginia taking up 3 ranges while all of Idaho
has 1.
If you live in the "long day" zone, but the area you have available to plant has limited sun (due to buildings and foliage blocking the sun) would it make sense to plant an intermediate, or even short day, onion?
When would you start your onions from seed I live in LA
Please call on the onion gods for me
I grew Yellow Utah onions from seed to bulb (albeit my grandma pulled them too early) in a matter of 3 months in my long day region.
I Now understand the short intermediate long day varieties of onions. My question is why wouldn't the suppliers send the right kinds of sets seeds plants to the right zones. So why wouldn't places like where I live in the south get the short day varieties? I guess I just don't understand the reason why we would be sent things that wouldn't be successful growing here
Talk to much
Half of these likes are from Shrek's family.
Struggling to find good intermediate day yellow onion varieties … I’ve started some “Vadalia” onions because I live in GA but I’m a little more north than the line showed in this video for short day onions not a big fan of red onion which seems like my biggest variety option doesn’t anyone in central GA know a good yellow onion to grow from seed?
i have planted my sets and ensured they are short day onions but have have trouble getting them to send out leaves. any suggestions?
My onions didn't sprout in water
Great info thanks, learning more and more!
Great video. Thanks.
Oh dear , I immediately subscribed cos I'm a gardener and you make things easy, the explanations are just apt! With much love from Ghana.
thanks buddy .
I love your channel as well as all the other gardening channels. Gardening here in WA state. My Sweet Spanish, Red Candy Onions, and Cipollini transplants are doing great and growing big. Ready to harvest in a couple of weeks. However, my Walla Walla and Apache from seed are slow going. Probably harvest by September. I've also started the process of overwintering onions to get ahead for next year. I'm growing leeks and shallots but they're a lost cause. Have you done a segment on either of those two? Or have grown them in the past?
hi kevin, living in hot LA county–i am hoping to plant onion seeds for a Fall garden…when do you suggest planting the seeds?
How do make shallots grow shoots from none? I have some which are rooted and planted them. It has been 3 days, most of them arent having shoots except for those that have it when bought. Any way to induce it?
Hi, Im very confused when you talk about zones..
I live in New Zealand and I don't think we use that term over here.
Thanks Kevin