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Onions are exceptionally useful in the kitchen, and properly harvested and cured bulbs will successfully store for up to six months. They really are a must-grow vegetable!
There are several options for starting onions but, whichever method you choose, they all need the same garden care.
In this short video we’ll show you all you need to know to grow your own trouble-free crop of beautiful bulb onions.
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you are right sir, immencely satisfying =)
Can I eat onions what they have bolted ???
You don’t spoon the bulbs to help them grow larger?
Since following I've learned a lot a true guide to success and you really enjoy this
what happens if you dont harvest the onion? do they live for years??? please let me know any gardeners thats done this, im thinking of doing it with some that im gunna grow for seed, do they just die in winter, how long does an onion live?
Cover the distinction between long day and short day onions. I had some apparently long day red onion sets, planted in fall, which never made bulbs. Long day onions need 15 hours of sun, and central Texas did not provide that beyond a few days at the summer solstice.
That garden planner looks like something from 1994
I always do them in the fall. I just have way more time! So we sow them then we move bed to bed refreshing the soil and weeding etc
Will I get good results by using onion set that I purchase from grocery store? Or should I purchase special sets from seed shops? Tks for your help.
I am new on this crow onions iam widow mi wife pass cancer so ineed do some
Hi Thank you for showing me how to grow onions.
Hi when do you wash onions after harvesting? Before or after curing? Thanks as usual great content
I love growing storage long varieties by seed. They keep so for a min of 10 months. Located in Western Washington state.
Nice video but I think there is 2 important missing informations. First, it is important to cut oignons leaves many times when they are small to make them stronger. Second, they're many types of oignons : long, intermediate and long days oignons. You need to select your type according to your location.
Onions are a bi-annual plant, and starting from seed usually avoids the bolting aspect, which is more prevalent with sets, which are small onions in their first year of growth. I always plant from seed into a pot and let them grow until anywhere around 4" to 6" in height, then wash all the soil from the roots and separate and plant individually 6" apart in rows. I start sowing in February in a polytunnel and I live in Sweden, South of Stockholm and around the same latitude as the Orkneys and Shetland so it's still very cold and the ground is frozen up here, but I get great harvests every year.
I've never had much luck with onion sets growing large bulbs – they tend to bolt. Then a friend gave me some "potato onions" (which some call shallots, but they're round, not flattened on one side). Those have done extremely well for me the past couple of years. The only downside is that they're much smaller, so a lot more peeling than just a large bulb. They do have yellow and red varieties.
Thanks, Ben. Good information. I live in Puget Sound area and start my onions from seed in a plastic clamshell container from the grocery store. I use a variety of long day onions. I transplant seedlings in March-April.
Really enjoy your Garden Planner.
We use sets in raised beds planted in spring.
I grow onions from seeds as well as starts, and am really looking forward to growing new varieties this spring. Thank you for your valuable information; I always learn something from your videos!
I planted garlic shallots and onions about 6 weeks before first frost and they are coming along nicely through winter. Perhaps i should start some spring onions in my new cold frame. I have put some tomato seeds in there but they may die as not hot enough!
Thank you
I've started onions all three ways, plants are the easiest if you don't get your seeds started early enough. Did sets last year, they just don't get real big or store as well. Getting down into my planting shed this week to start onions plus my cole crops here in Missouri.
I grow heat. treated sets and have been successful year on year – they store well in plats in the garage
I've had better success with sets, versus seeds. The seeds i've planted get to growing, then a majority of them seem to push themselves up out of the soil and I find them laying on their sides. If I catch them right away they re-plant with no problem, but i don't have the same problem with sets and bolting has not been an issue for me. We are still eating the red onions I pickled from last season's crop, and this year I planted even more.
Cheers, Ben!
Try Australian brown and see
Hi Ben, love your videos. I am growing onions for the first time. I got some sets and have them started inside under lights. They are already growing 1-2 inches. I have a larger plastic greenhuse, when would be the right time to put them outside? Is it to early? ! am on Vancouver Island, off Canada's western coast.. usually same weather as the UK