Onion Garden & Propagation

My ode to the lowly onion. If you do not experiment with onions currently, give them a try. They are easy, low-maintenance plants that are very rewarding to grow. They produce well and can give you a year-round bounty. I produce onions year round and harvest fresh right when I start cooking. Yellow onions and chives are my favorites, to grow, but vidalia and white onions are also tasty bulbs.

I have also included some of my more common uses. I also use onions in my chili, but I don't make that many batches on chili until the fall and winter. Happy Growing!

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Howto & Style

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• Mental
• Gardening
• Onions
• Propagation
• cooking

[cegli1]

Awesome video, thanks for taking the time to put it together and share it!!!! I live in Memphis and have been looking for methods to propagate and grow onions in our warm climate. A few questions for you... 1) Do you ever plant the onion seeds directly into the ground, and when do you do so? I have not had luck planting them in the spring yet. 2) When growing your onion sets in the bin, how do you care for the onions and what is the process for harvesting the small onions before winter?

[jknacasual]

@cegli1 Thanks for your comment. In our climate, onions will grow for most of the year. If I was going to plant seed directly in the garden, I would do it in early spring when you would plant cold season plants, i.e. same time as lettuce. If you plant with good spacing and in well composted soil, you can have good sized onions by mid summer / early fall. They will not be the huge ones you see in the store. You need to grow from bulbs to get them that size.

[jknacasual]

@cegli1 On growing in a bin, I care for it like any other plant. When you want to harvest, fold down the stalk at ground level about 2 weeks before you harvest. I just dump the tray and then seperate from the soil. You need to dry them out some to prevent them from rotting and getting mushy if you are going to transplant in the garden later. Done correctly, they will look like the bulbs in the store, dry and firm. I must be getting lazy as I plant seed to garden these days, if small use 2.

[mywootgarden]

OMG ! your vid is awesome ill post a RE !! 

[jknacasual]

@mywootgarden Thanks! I cut a bunch of seed heads recently and I thought about making a vid of seeding them. I ended up with about 30 - 40 flowers. It should yield about a thousand seeds. Thanks for watching!

[davidbgeez123]

hey i have an onion set that has already started growing the leafy head and its not yet in to ground because i just picked it from the larger onions. is it still okay to plant them in late august?

[jknacasual]

@davidbgeez123 Thanks for your comment. I do plant in late Summer and early fall. I typically carry my onions through the winter with my greenhouse (not heated) over them. It jump starts the growth and my family can use the fresh stalks in all of our onion recipes throughout the Winter and early Spring. They will survive even without the greenhouse (depending on your location), but you can increase their growth that way. Cold frames are great too.

[5Language]

Can you please watch my Onion Germination video and tell me if my onion is going to grow? Thanks.

[zuseable]

thanks for your video i am curently trying to dry my seed heads and the bagy tip is the tiket thanks agine

[mywootgarden]

@jknacasual wow you you really have to make a vid about that or with some of those componets :D im super in love with onions and the allium family with the garlic and the ugly cousin the leek :) thanks for posting