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Herbs Are Amazing Plants To Grow For All Skill Levels. Relatively easy, fast-growing, and highly productive. Everyone loves Basil and Sage and Cilantro, but those plants have a time limit, and once they flower or winter hits, whichever is first, that’s it. Enter Perennial Herbs. These plants are built to last, coming back year-after-year, even…
Everyone Wants To Be More Self Sufficient. One of the best ways to do that is to grow your own food. But within our commonly cultivated food crops, there are specific plants that rise above the others in terms of self propagation. In today’s video, we’ll look at the top 5 crops to grow this…
Regrow Store-Bought Green Onions For Free! If you ever wanted unlimited Green Onions, then look no further. Also known as scallions or spring onions, these members of the Allium family are quite literally the easiest crop to grow for new gardeners. Cut the root ends off, stick them in a shallow glass of water, and…
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…
Growing Green Onions Indoor Right From Seed To Harvest! Green Onions are an awesome staple in most gardens, easy to germinate, even easier to maintain, harvest, and eat! Treated as a perennial in most climates, people often want to try their hand at growing these guys indoors. Well, let me tell you…its just as easy!…
Freeze Your Onions Safely To Preserve And Enjoy Them All Year! Onions are a “ready-at-once” crop in that, like garlic, you harvest the bulbs all in one shot. They preserve well, but not forever, and certainly not until next harvest. In this video, let’s look at how we can freeze raw onions to preserve this…
Green Onion Experiment! We all know that you can regrow Green Onions by cutting the green shoots off (yummy) and then planting the white root ends either in water or in soil. But have we ever looked at just how far down we can cut them and still have the plant regrow? For many people,…
Regrow New Onions From Another Onion? Well, let’s find out. In this video, Part 2 of the 5-part series, we revisit the experiment from last summer where we sliced off the root end of a regular yellow onion, suspended it in water until it rooted, then planted it. In step 2, your onions have begun…
Regrow New Onions From Another Onion? Well, let’s find out. In this video, we revisit the experiment from last summer where we sliced off the root end of a regular yellow onion, suspended it in water until it rooted, then planted it. Apparently that wasn’t good enough and the naysayers said that a true onion…
Its easy to regrow green onions, also known as scallions. Just poke a hole in the soil, and drop the cut off end in. Can also be used as an insect deterrent since many bugs don’t like the smell, but, sadly, its not 100% effective.
Regrow your cut green onions from the grocery store! For free, you can create an unlimited green onion supply simply by rooting the bulb ends in water. Takes only a week to root and you’ll be swimming in new green onions for years to come! It only takes about a minute of prep, and within…
Regrow your own onion bottoms! In this video, I show you and prove to myself that you can grow a new onion bulb simply by cutting off the inch at the base of a regular onion bulb (root end) and sticking it either in water, or directly into moist soil. Most people know about this…
In this episode we cover growing onions. With so many choices it can be confusing. Grow onions from seed. Grow onions from sprouts or onion starts. Grow onion sets. Geesh! Remember to make sure you are choosing the correct variety as well. Long day onions do better in the northern half of the continental U.S.…
Onions are an interesting crop, as they’re a biennial in nature. That means they grow from seed to a dormant bulb in their first year, and from that bulb to flower (and back to seed) in their second year. It’s important to take this into consideration when planting onions. You have three options when it…
Onions are an interesting crop, as they’re a biennial in nature. That means they grow from seed to a dormant bulb in their first year, and from that bulb to flower (and back to seed) in their second year. It’s important to take this into consideration when planting onions. You have three options when it…
Serina demonstrates our process for harvesting the onion seeds from our Walking Onions, and how easy it is to plant our raised beds.
Earlier this spring, we companion planted a whole bunch of radishes, carrots, and onions in a former lawn which we covered with hay. A little over a month later, the experiment seem to be successful! (So far, at least)
