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43 Comments
why would anyone call you stupid 🙁
In Southern PA I couldn't put my Peppers out till June this year
Curious… why did you not prune these onions sooner? Pretty sure you posted a video a number of years ago about the importance of pruning.
💚 It’s always inspiring to see your garden grow and learn from your experiences along the way.
I multi-sow my onions seeds like this. But onions love to grow in cold weather! I planted mine back in April (zone 5b). They can easily survive a light frost. Just make sure to cover them if a hard freeze is coming.
I did mine in February and they’re in the ground mid March really liking the way they’re looking this year. You see that guy from you
I alway multi-sow my onions! Yours look great.
I assume the reason a lot of people don't grow onions is because they are so cheap in the grocery store.
So what's the spacing? What type onions did you plant?
Oops I think I planted my onions too deep. Most seem to be doing well in spite of it. Lesson learned, thank you.
Crazy and stupid, I wouldn't have it any other way😅
Well done!😮😂❤
I didn’t know that I was supposed to separate each red onion before I planted them in my grow bag 😢. My first time. I separated them by clumps ! Are they going to die now? Is it too late to take them out and replant them?
Can i multi sow carrrots?
That's how I started my onions too. If I'd done one or two per cell, it would have taken 3 or 4 flats at least. I trimmed them and put them outside around the 9th of May. They are growing like crazy in my raised beds now.
Been gardening for as long as I can remember but I never attempted onions or garlic until last year. I planed the little bulblets you buy at the garden center and for my garlic i just peeled a whole clove apart and planted a couple of those. They sprouted but then didn't grow past …bulblets lol. Several gardening sites said you have to overwinter those like tender bulbs then re-plant them in the early spring, then they'll grow into big onions and garlic. At least that's what I got from what was being said.
Well the overwintering didn't work. I had them in my garage, insulated, with all of my other tender bulbs (including a huge stash of beautiful mature Mexican Tuberose, full crowns ..I'm practically crying over this, I think you can see where this is going lol) and then we got several extended brutal cold spells, many degrees below zero F. None of the bulbs made it. Not one. I lost plants outside that usually survive the winter here, so these little bulbs in the garage were doomed.
THis year I just grabbed an onion seed packet. So if you plant them from actual seeds like you've done, do you not just end up with the first stage again? The tiny bulblet that looks like green onions?
I feel like I'm asking very novice questions here, but clearly there's something i'm missing. ANy help would be appreciated. Thanks!!
I find multi sowing onions is also a great way to start onions then in individual cells. 🧅
I've done this "Multi Sow" for onion quite a few years now. I am ALWAYS thrilled with the result
Lol, well I must be the anomaly when growing onions because I have kill many a plants when it come to onions. I will be trying this method. 12:08
I multi sow my onions for a while now. However seed onions have not done well for me….yet!! Tipping over has always caused problem. I don't know why I didn't think of trimming just before planting…DUH!! I will be planting out mine very soon for this year and will be trimming. Thanks for the tip.
I'm over in Sweden, not sure what zone but we do have "full winters" with minus and lots of snow. Spring used to be around end of May but these past few years, It's been more like spring comes mid April. I planted my hard neck garlic in early November last year and by spring when the snow had melted, they were already up about 3 inches. they are now about thigh high and I'm hoping that if the size of the stems, length/width is any indicator, that the bulbs will be nice and fat too. (a couple of scapes have already started to form) Anyhow. I opted to plant the store bought onion bulbs/babies/whatever they're called, since I wanted mostly red onions and I couldn't find seed for those over here at a reasonable price. I might have planted them to deep, about the depth of 2 onion bulbs??? Anyhow, they're all up and have grown about a foot above ground. We'll have to see how large the finished bulbs will become. I also have a few onions that didn't get harvested last year for whatever reason, that are up and growing this year. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get seed off of them.
My onions when I planted them, I spaced the rows about 8 inches apart and last week I planted rows of carrots between the onion rows. I figure by the time the carrots start developing into larger carrots, the onions will be ready to harvest. I spaced my garlic also further apart and now that they have become so tall and sturdy, I'm planting rows of corn between the garlic. Same there, the garlic will be up and out before the corn crowds them out, plus I believe that both onion and garlic keeps some of the wildlife and pests away from more sensitive crops.
And yes I agree with you, onions are one of the easier crops to plant and get a harvest from. You might not get big fat onions but, you'll get onions. Next crop that I feel is even easier, is potatoes….
Just planted my onions last night that I got from you. Works just fine. 😊
I bought onion transplants, but didn't cut the leaves, but they weren't too tall yet. I bought your trifecta fertilizer, but haven't put it around them yet. They've been in the ground since the end of April, so can I still put some of the fertilizer around them?
PLEASE GIVE UPDATE ON THE POMEGRANATE BUSH you planted beside the building. ???????
I actually just harvested my onions (central AL,, 8A) although not completely by choice. About a month ago we had a couple of weeks of bad storms with high winds. The wind knocked over 90% of my onions, breaking their necks so that as far as they were concerned, it was time to stop growing. At least I'd planted them in early February so they're mostly all of a nice size to use, but none of the monsters I'm accustomed to getting.
Is it too late to start onions multi-sow?
Wish I could get roots like that? Been starting them inside in Feb for 3 years now, when I put them in the ground in Apr. Thay have hardly any roots, most of them die within a few days
Onions may be the easiest for some, but onions and garlic is what I have the most problem with. Three larg tubs of garlic last fall made three tubs of nothing this spring. Only once have I actually gotten a bulb in the city, however years ago in the country I had great onions. I do fine with green onions have them everywhere but true onion bulbs, um no. ❤️🙏
Which bed is that? Your 2×6 or 4×4 – guessing 4×4?
Thank You!
I do find it confusing when different gardeners use the same term "multi sow" to mean different things. I have used this method of sowing a lot of onion seeds in one tray and then separating them out to transplant. It works! But other gardeners use "multi sow" to mean sowing 3-4 onions in one plug and transplanting them together in one clump without separating them. So, it's just confusing to call it the same thing.
Thanks Luke 💖 This is hopefully 🤞🏻, going to be my best onion year. I did multi sow but I also ordered from dixondale farms. Mine are hanging on but their are doing great. I will keep trying 🙌🏼
My local nursery up pots this way as as some veg transplanting.
Ok Luke, after your several minute talk on how it’s so hard to kill onions, I’m feeling really bad😂 I multi-sowed walla walla, white sweet Spanish, and some shallots a few months ago. I did my best to follow your instructions exactly. They looked great, but after I put them in the ground THEY ALL DIED. Well, I do have one onion and one shallot left but, basically, they all died. I watered and fertilized them, but they just never did anything and kind of disappeared. What could I have done wrong?
I found the multi sow method this year and was excited to finally get an onion harvest. Then all my alliums were destroyed by the leaf miners.
How did the onion seeds you did in the “jelly roll” do?
No limp tops ✍🏼 got it 😂
I’d love to know what other plants you can multi-sow?
That would be a great video
Thank you! This video came just in time for me to plant out my onions.
All my garlic got hit with leaf miners this year, and my onions (from sets) aren't bulbing. Maybe just too soon but im not to hopeful for them. I started some onions from seed early in April, and they're doing okay, though not to big yet. Maybe I'll try planting them.
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Thank you for posting this. I am roughly 100 miles north of you (tip of the thumb) and didn’t get my multi sown onions into the ground yet (too many conflicts came up). I thought it too late but now I will give them a shot and get them in the ground by this weekend and maybe I will still get some bulbs this year! Fingers crossed!