This is the best way to plant onion sets for large onions. Getting roots established early is the key to full size onions.
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I've seeds going near Galveston, nice weather. Boy I need space.
Thanks Gary! Excellent simple yet detailed lesson,as usual.
I sprinkle some thin mulch, usually pine cleanings from my coop or some straw or leaves or woodchips. Any little mulch helps to keep in a bit more moisture.
The only bed I don’t mulch is carrots.
So bury thr red or white whole tip in the soil? My bunch from dixon dale were very dried( lots of brown) directions specifically said do not put in water…or soak and to leave them for 3 weeks did i get a bad bunch?
I grew my own onions last year. I thought the supermarket onions were fresh until I cut up my own. I've got another batch now that I'm waiting for germination.
Ty I get my onions from Dixondale – mine are coming 4/15 in zone 6 b . I’ve just planted some onion seeds and will nurse them around for 8-10 weeks for my second wave- ty again. I’ll be sure to try the rook soak for 5 days👍
Great tips! Thank you
Omg I WISH I would have seen this video before I got mine because I punt them right into the dirt but hopefully they are ok I am still learning front his video what I can do 😊 I am wondering how long it takes for the onion to tea CB maturity?
Great and helpful video! I set out onions from Dixondale farms for the first time this year. Looking forward to watching them bulb. I may try to grow from seed this fall and see if I can get some starts.
I'm in 8a and I planted my candy onions 1st of March; started 1st of January. The weakest ones were planted as green onions. Make use of your slow growers by planting them as green onions.
Hi Gary. When should mulch be applied?
Dang…..here I went and bought a “set” of the baby onions and planted those. They look great so far. Next year I’ll try these live, rooted varieties. Always some good tips from you, Gary, thx.
What is the best night time temperature to plant onions outside ? The onions I started indoor are much smaller than the ones you are showing in this video.
Great tip. I'll try this next year.
Hi Gary. Your video came right after I planted 100 White Creole Onions. I still have about 150 Red Beard bunching onions to plant. I’ll do that tomorrow. Soon it will be time to sow the rest of my seeds, parsnips, pole beans (red noodle this year), cilantro, dill, basil, marigolds, zinnias, strawflower, and cosmos. Thursday there is potential frost in the forecast, but after that there is a warming trend. If the forecast stays warm through April 10th, I’ll start transplanting my sed starts into the garden on April 1st.
Most of my potatoes have sprouted, the garlic, onions, mustard, chard, kohlrabi, shelling peas, snow peas, lettuce, and radish all are doing great. The peppermint seeds have sprouted. I am waiting on the parsley, yarrow, chicory, Vulgare Oregano, and catnip seeds to sprout. The comfrey and Greek Oregano transplants are thriving in their new home. I just got a box Red Cap mushroom spore in the mail today, so I need to purchase strawbales this week, and start getting them set up.
I used hog wire to make an arched trellis three foot tall, five and a half feet long spanning a raised bed for Heart of Gold cantaloupe and Sugar Baby Watermelon. It is supported on each end and in the middle with Crepe Myrtle branches. This year’s garden has 14 raised beds of various sizes, a trellis tunnel, 16 ten gallon grow bags, three GreenStalk towers, a 10×20 foot herb garden, an orchard with seven fruit trees, and a mushroom bed.
I’ve already done next years planned garden expansion, so this winter’s project will be moving two raised beds to where they get better lighting and put hardware wire, or crushed rock under them to keep the voles out. A layer of 1 inch gravel works as well as the hardware cloth to keep the critters from digging up and into the raised beds.
How big will those onion get? They seem very close for very big onions.
Perfect timing. I just bought those starts yesterday 😊
Where should I get my onion sets from. The ones I’ve seen are only the bulb. Thank you
Great Video! Thank you for explaining how often to fertilize I originally thought it was every two weeks
Where is the video for the onion starts in the bag? I searched your videos by "onion" and i dont see a thumbnail with them in it other than a winter sowing video?
Dixondale Farms says not to soak them before planting.