Welcome to our back porch as we share our favorite onion varieties to grow in our organic garden! From the best storage onions to the sweetest fresh-eating varieties, we break down why we love them and how we grow them successfully. ๐ฑโจ
Weโll also cover pretty much everything you need to know about growing onions, including spacing , watering, thinning, fertilizing, and dealing with common pests. Plus, weโll share some of our gardening secrets for transplanting and saving onion seeds! ๐ฑ
๐ฅ Hereโs what you can expect in this video:
โณ 00:00 – Intro
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00:16 – Dadโs Favorite Storage Onion Variety
๐ 00:37 – Favorite Fresh Eating Sweet Onion Variety
๐ค 01:11 – Why We Like Our Storage Onion Favorite
๐ฑ 01:28 – The Way We Grow Onions
๐ง 01:30 – Drip Watering
๐ 01:36 – Spacing
๐ฑ 01:43 – How Many Seeds To Plant
โ๏ธ 01:51 – Thinning The Onions
๐ก๏ธ 02:32 – Growing Conditions
๐ 02:37 – Onion Diseases Or Pest Issues
๐ 02:47 – Ideal Soil Type
๐ฆ 02:55 – Watering Onions
๐ผ 03:05 – If Onions Go To Seed
๐พ 03:15 – How To Save Onion Seed
๐งช 03:58 – Fertilizer Requirements For Onions
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04:39 – When To Plant Onions / Starts
๐ฟ 05:32 – Transplanting
๐คซ 06:03 – Gardening Fanatic Secrets For Transplanting Onions
๐ ๏ธ 06:28 – Dibbler Or Not?
๐ 06:46 – How To Know When To Harvest Walla Walla Sweet Onions
๐ฆ 07:18 – Storing Your Onions
โณ 08:00 – When To Harvest Storage Onions
๐ฑ๐ก If you love growing your own vegetables, this video is packed with useful tips to help you get the best onion harvest possible!
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Thank you for this wonderful video, so informative and I'm excited to plant Paterson onions, I've never heard of them before. Only 5 weeks until March and thaw and warmer days, take good care of yourselves! God Bless You.
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Great video, always enjoy your content. We garden in Alberta, Canada. In the last three years, we have not managed to grow any good-sized onions despite growing nice large onions in the past. We have tried so many different ideas to achieve the big onion but to no success. We grow wala wala, kelsey, and a few others. We have never direct sown the seed as our growing season is tight, but maybe we should try. Any suggestions or tips? Thank you, keep up the good work!
Thank you for the great information on onions. I watch all your videos and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge to help folks grow better food.
South-eastern Saskatchewan here. I tried Pattersons for the first time last year and they were GREAT. Not only are they doing well in storage, they are noticeably tasty. Several times after using them in a dish my husband has actually commented "Wow, these onions are really good".