:54 Short day onions, Intermediate day onions, & Long day onions
2:42 Mapping
4:06 Planting
5:09 Bolting
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8:56 Onions from Seed
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Where are you located? Been trying to get onions down but haven't had any luck.
So glad I found your videos! I used your code for the GreenStalk! Thanks!
I'm in NE Ok and grow Texas 1015 short day, start from seed around 9/15 and put in ground around mid-late Nov
I love these videos from you! I also live in s similar climate, so your videos are making learning gardening a lot easier and faster lol. For the onions you buy from Dixondale, would a gardener be able to let an onion or two go to seed, so you would have seeds to plant for the next year? It looks like all of Dixondale's intermediate onions are hybrids, and while I would usually buy seeds/plants/etc every year anyway, I'm curious if the resulting onions grown from last year's hybrid plant would be edible or even able to grow at all lol.
Perfect timing for this video. Just got my onions today. I’m in Arkansas too. Love your videos.
Thank you ❤️
What kind of heater do you have for your greenhouse?
I've heard when growing from seed you should give them a trim or a hair cut when the green tops get at least 4 inches tall- it's supposed to help stimulate more growth. Hope that helps.
Just ordered. Thank you for great info
How many starts do you reccomend planting in 1 square foot and have you ever grown them in a Greenstalk?
Very helpful! I failed growing large onions for 10 years before discovering Dixondale Farms. They provide SO MUCH detail guidance as well as excellent products that I had my first semi-success last year 🙂 I'm in central NC and I still can't figure out best time to plant because our winters are so variable like yours. Average frost used to be mid April, but I don't think we'll have another frost this year (today is March 9). I recommend buying from Dixondale because they have excellent customer service and the big box store sets don't even identify what variety they are.
try the patterson onion from Dixiondales for a storage onion, havent bought an store onion in two years now, w/o any extra effort in storage.
I'm in northwestern Oregon and no expert. Here, planting onions from seed usually happens in August or September. Then, hopefully, by February or March, they look like bunching onions and are ready to divide. I personally haven't tried it yet but another gardener I know has had great success. Thanks for your very informative videos. I particularly loved one you did a while back on gardening with the idea of creating gifts (i.e. loofa). Keep it coming!
Loved the info… I’m getting dixondale onions this year
I ordered my onions after this video aired. We too are in 7b. Can’t wait!
I’ve grown my onions from seed for a few years with great success. I start them in early fall (short day onions) and plant out in October. Even with the hard freezes this last December (zone 9a), they got bit back a little bit and then took off growing again. Mine are now starting to bulb.
I also wanted to share that I plant my onions from seed out at a smaller size than the ones you have in your hands that you are growing this year. Onions are really resilient. A small little seedling will take off. Good luck!
My last frost date is June 1. I start seeds in the soil in my greenhouse early to mid Feb., planting them fairly densely. I dig them up and plant them in the garden around May 1, harvest beautiful bulbs around Oct 1. I've been doing this for many years, and onions are one of the easiest crops for me.
Thanks for the video. Good stuff. I'm in agreement with you on onion sets! For the life of me I cannot get a dependable crop out of them. I've tried fall plantings and spring plantings with only 20-30% success. After this year, I'm doing strictly transplants are the primary source for my onions. I have tried from seed and this will be my 2nd year of trying from seed, but last year I had pretty good luck with a variety called Candy Onion that I got from Hoss Tools. I've got two dozen started already just as an additional experiment but I think transplants are still the way to go. Zone 7b, NC.
I am in southeast Missouri. I love your videos and I believe we may be in the same growing zone. I have recently started my own homesteading channel because i am inspired by you and others on Youtube. I grew up helping my grandmother garden and learning the old ways. Being 63 that was a long time ago. Keep up the good work young lady
I’m in 7b as well my Dixondale sampler onions came in. They recommend a fertilizer trench. Do you do this or just a Rev soak?
Onions are very easy to grow…
I Start them in 162 cell trays on a heat mat then start fertilizer when the second leaf appears.
Top water only and never use bottom trays because leaving them sitting in water will ruin them.
Take them off the heat mat before starting them on fertilizer.
I’d be happy to answer any questions.
TONS of excellent information
I am new to your channel but I really like how you work your garden I’m just a backyard gardener
sow less in a pot ive bean growning onins frome seed for 10 years and fin then out when they are still young