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Thank you for this video. Good information! I hope someday my soil will be as nice to work as yours. My soil is still pretty clumpy but this is my first year in ground gardening.
Do you recommend mulching onion beds? Thanks for all the informative content you provide.
I plant onions pretty much the same way, kinda close to use all season. I do one thing a bit different. I heavily water the onion seedlings in, then I feed them with a worm casting extract, sort of a foliar and soil feeding all at once.
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I give them just a little bit of a haircut the day before I plant them. I know I don't have to because they will be reaching for the sunlight and end up standing tall. I just like to have them so they don't lay over I like them between 5" & 8". I do it similar to you I planted 9 per square foot and harvest every other one as we need them. Regardless of what people say they still grow big when I grow them with this spacing. I have about 600 growing. We cook with onions all the time.
Great info. Book ordered(The Modern Homestead Garden). Thank you Mr. Pilarchik!!
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Thank you for a very informative video.
Very enjoyable. Thank you. Great idea for planting closer and using them through out the season
Did not have any luck in Northern Az till I went to the short day onions. Granex has been the best for me. I’m a little behind on the seed starts.
Something I'd like to mention…I had the misconception that onions didn't have pests, that onions repelled everything. Not true. Last year was my third year planting onions at our new location. Every year, including 2022, the onions grew bountifully and beautifully. Last year we harvested approximately 400 onions of five different varieties. As we looked closer, we noticed tiny worms had bored their way into the onions from where the leaves join the bulb. 95% of the onions were affected by what I later learned were onion maggots. I had hoped to overwinter the onions in our cold storage to use fresh throughout the winter and spring, but had to change my plans and process them instead (I ended up chopping and freezing the good parts of the onion). This year we'll be covering our onion starts. Just thought I'd mention this in case others have the same impression I did. Thanks for your great videos, Gary.