Why I will NOT grow onions next year | Easy Self-Sufficent Garden
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Welsh onions
2:41 Shallots
7:39 Tips for self-sufficiency
About Us.
Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
We keep a few sheep and Aylesbury ducks.
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14 Comments
Hi I can't grow alliums at all since buying some sets with white rot four years ago, got leaf miners too so given up. Your garden is lovely you have worked so hard
Hi Liz, I've really struggled with onions this year, those bunching onions look amazing, thanks for sharing and big love to you and yours hun
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I still have so many leeks in my freezer…I need more ways to use them. I like having multiple onion resources. I grow bulb onions, bunching perennial onions and every so often shallots and leeks. 🙂 Liz, Does your book reflect growing in cold climates as well as the UK?
Are they similar to Egyptian onions
I have perennial bunching onions planted but they are in an area that I can't give much attention to yet. Seeing how well yours are doing, I think I might move a bunch or two to the main garden area and see how they do.
I've not grown Welsh onions before, I think I might try some next year. Could you do an updated video on all the perennial veg you are currently growing. I remember from your old garden the skirret but did you like the skirret?
I am from France, we eat many many onions. I love onions but understand for some too strong. I am excited to see the english also grow some échalotes because they are very versatilities from sauces to cakes! Good luck with the 2023 harvest!
Absolutely amazing.. 🎈🎈🌷🌷
Bunching onions sound like they are worth trying. I like the idea that they can stay in the ground without the bother of drying and storing. I can always pick up a yellow onion at the market for large pots of soup or spaghetti sauce when a stronger flavor would be nice.
I love shallots but just never thought of growing them I'm on the boarder of zones 8a and 8b in the US, although this winter is shaping up harder than usual. Should I plant them now, or very early spring? How do you know when to harvest them?
Can I plant shallots now? …we already have -1 Celsius. Thank you for your vlog
I planted Egyptian walking onions 3 years ago…I no longer need to plant any, they have literally walked all over my beds and I cut the babies and plant them everywhere. Shallots are my next experiment..thanks Liz for always inspiring me and my garden.
Nice video liz I wanted to plant bunching onions this year but as we are not sure what the future holds for us on this farm we are only planting quick crops now I love your gardens 😀
It's funny I usually grow bunching onions or from seed ..this year I have for the first time grown onions from sets..and I have been growing veg for about 15 plus years…I will see how they go but tbh I think I will probably stick to my Welsh onions and Spring onions too 🙂