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Post by Mumsey on Feb 23, 2019 17:06:41 GMT -5
Onions are looking good. Due for another haircut tomorrow. Only 900 this year
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Post by Mumsey on Feb 24, 2019 6:50:08 GMT -5
Pic of one tray of onions. These are Red Wing.  |
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Post by binnylou on Mar 3, 2019 17:23:56 GMT -5
Onion seed planted 2/17 and leeks and shallots all got a haircut today.
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Post by Mumsey on Mar 10, 2019 19:21:29 GMT -5
I'm having to do haircuts every 3 days! The onions are growing like crazy.
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Post by deckman22 on Mar 15, 2019 18:06:23 GMT -5
It looks like some of my onions are starting to bulb out. I like the thought of harvesting big fat sweet onions and freeing up all the space they are taking up now. That brings me to a question. What do you onion gardeners plant following them?
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Post by lisaann on Mar 15, 2019 18:10:59 GMT -5
deckman22, Since my onions are not ready for harvest here in Maryland till around August 2nd, it is a good time to start the fall crop of broccoli here, or cabbage or something like that here in my area. It is always interesting to hear what others in different areas are planting or harvesting. I love this stuff! 
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Post by Mumsey on Mar 16, 2019 4:05:24 GMT -5
deckman22, Zucchini or yellow crookneck squash follows the onions. Sometimes Patty Pan Squash. I never bother to plant it any earlier than July. No bugs if I wait.
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Post by Mumsey on Mar 26, 2019 3:08:38 GMT -5
Hoping to get the onion babies in the ground in 3 weeks. We are still eating last year's crop. This one is Red Wing. Excellent keeper. I'm growing them again this year.  |
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Post by binnylou on Apr 11, 2019 10:52:51 GMT -5
Since our first purchase of onions from Dixondales and reading their planting info, we have been planting onions in mounded rows when planting in the ground.
My homegrown onion transplants are going in to the raised bed this year. My inclination is to mound the rows. I have previously grown onions/leeks/shallots in the raised bed, but did not mound the rows. The year that I planted in the raised bed without mounding, we had a cold spell and my onions bolted and flowered. The leeks did great. Can't remember the shallot...I struggle with shallots and don't know why I keep trying. But I do...never give up.
Who grows in mounded rows? Do you think it makes a difference compared to planting in level planting area?
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 11, 2019 15:00:07 GMT -5
binnylou, I don't mound onions. They seem to do great in the flat area. I'd be sacrificing too much space to mound them.
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Post by desertwoman on Apr 11, 2019 15:44:23 GMT -5
I've never mounded onions either. And they always have the top part of the bulb above ground as they grow bigger.
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Post by deckman22 on Apr 13, 2019 10:14:47 GMT -5
I mound mine, that way by the time they are bulbing most of the dirt has washed away from the hose watering I do leaving the bulb sitting right on top. One area I planted them in is under a large live oak which always sheds leaves in the spring, the mounding helps the leaves from building up around the onions. They grow slower there due to the sun riding low to the south early in the year keeping that area partially shaded til summer.
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 20, 2019 5:10:04 GMT -5
400 planted at Dad's yesterday. 4 long rows about a foot apart. Needed to water them since it's windy and pretty dry. I watered the plants while still in the trays. Then after planting. I got some buckets and got water from the quarry.
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 22, 2019 16:26:46 GMT -5
Planted another 100 in my garden today. Since I rearranged the bean fences I have more room. And I moved some perennials out of the garden area. Dug a whole clump of leeks. Guess we will eat those. I also have purple globe allium that looks exactly like leek except for the bulb/root. Several clumps of what I think are allium so left them for now.
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Post by James on Apr 24, 2019 14:23:06 GMT -5
Onions: Here in high dry Utah, the Yellow Spanish Onion is a favorite. I also grow some White and Red onions at times. In springtime the local seed and feed store will have onion sets, which is a small dry bulb. You just go push them in the ground enough that they will stay put. You don't want them deep. They will come up and the bulb will form mostly above ground. When the tops fall over, you can go pull them and let them dry up some before cutting off the top and bagging them. Here I bag them in onion bags and hang them downstairs so they will be dry and have air circulation all around them. If I plant onion seeds, I will get loads of green onions, and if let to grow full season they make a bulb that is about an inch in diameter. So to get the large bulbs we need to start out with the onion sets.
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