Every harvest is a learning experience
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Let's see what we can learn from this onion harvest.
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You can really be proud of your harvest. Onions are the veggie we eat the most, so this year I panted them in every space I could find. I'm trying to water them a lot!
I grow the same onions for 25 years
. I transplant mid Nov to mid Jan. I think you got an optimal crop for Jan planting. Personally, I like them at that size for feeding only 2.
For bigger onions, you need more nitrogen and a full day of sun. Your spacing is what mine looks like after thinning about Easter time. Then I pull the smallest ones for green onions. If it's thinner than a pencil, it gets removed.
I put blood meal and bone meal in my planting furrow. It also helps keep gophers at bay. That is all the fertilizer they get. I plant every 3 to 4 inches with 6 inches btwn rows. Once the transplants revive, I top with a half inch or so of compost. That's important in my dry climate, to retain rainfall.
Melons tend to do well in the onion bed. I transplant a few melons into gaps after thinning the onion bed.
That's a good looking harvest.
Thank you
Similar plan, planted 52 garlic and onion each for year's harvest. Fell short however it's a starting point 😀
I tweak it every year one day I'll get it right lol
I live in michigan, making sure you plant the right onion makes a lot of difference that people don't pay attention to or don't know. I plant a min of 100 onions. 2-3 kinds. Gets me and the ol lady through the year.
You are exactly right
Awesome onions 🌰looks amazing 😊🎉nice video 📹 👍 good morning 😊
good morning! Thank you
I mulched my onions this year with pine animal bedding from Tractor Supply this year. I really really helped with the weed issues. I fight the devil in my garden (Bermuda grass and yellow nutsedge) but the mulch held it mostly at bay!
I love the way you garden! I’m zone 6b-7a eastern Washington..( desert climate) and love to experiment! I winter sow my onion seeds, get them in our ground early-mid March, harvest July.. I’ll start okra in seed trays that will occupy beds once they’re empty.. first frost is October and I can grow everything up to that point.
Learn new things every year!
Eastern WA is so much better than Western WA in so many ways. Growing food is one of them. My Dad grew up in the Finley area of the Tri Cities. We currently live in Lake Tapps, WA near Auburn/Puyallup if not sure where Lake Tapps is. I would love to move east of the Mountains!
@@DanlowMusic I live in Tri-Cities! Love the weather here!
@@vickiwestlund1837 I love that area. It was my home away from home growing up. My cousins still live there, their Mom lives in a retirement home there. I always feel at home there. Even as big as it has gotten.
I planted in October and started pulling them around the first of the month. The Vedalia were as big or bigger than that onion you showed. We are extremely happy. So yes plant earlier!!! My Burgandy I started late and they are a lot smaller and started to pull this week!!!
already got my seeds and ready to go. lol I feel like in fall I am always behind schedule
I was gifted Eqyptian walking onions and they are fantastic! I also planted some onion starts here in SC as well. But, the Eqyptian Walking Onions are my favorite. Plant, let them walk, can eat everything on the plant. It is like having leeks, chives, and pearl onions all in one onion!😊
I had some given to me too. I just couldn't decide on where to plant them.
Great garden tips and nice harvest. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Dude, you could totally use that onion . I pickle my small onions, kebab them, dehydrate them, use them for a small omelet, and so many uses. Just s a suggestion.
I live in zone 9b and even though most of my growing season is over. I am watching for ideas to apply in fall. Thank you
Same here, 9b. Working on my onion game too. Yellow granex seems to do better and red creole.
Have a nice day 😊
I have not had good results with red onions
We will be talking fall soon
My onions look terrible. Most are lying down, but they are still growing, and the bulbs are getting larger. It is probably my fault, with having done aggressive weeding. I'm probably looking at August before they are ready to harvest. My garlic, planted in the beginning of October, are about ready to harvest. I just harvested out the Japanese Giant Red Mustard, and Southern Curley Mustard. Ugh, bare space. Well, it will have to wait until July or August when I start transitioning to a fall garden. On the positive side, the Swiss chard are getting more light and are no longer competing for nutrients.
I'm in new hampshire and I'm growing about 200 onions, half red and half yellow. Typically we harvest in late July. They are off to an amazing start this year. Last year my onion crop was decimated by Botrytis Leaf blight...I suspected I planted too close and the whole harvest was small bulbs. I doubled the row spacing this year to 10 inches with 5 inches between plants within the rows.
Sounds great!
As far as my onions, i have them in 3 different areas, 2 of which are in my raised beds (kind of using a square foot garden method but not quite) and 1 area i have down on my property where i have started a grocery row garden. That grocery row garden is based off of 3 olum trees and 1 pear for now. In between those trees are beds spaced at about 12 feet. I have a fig tree started in the middle of one with rhubarb half way between that and the pear tree. I have my onions all around the rhubarb. It seems to have kept the pests off of the rhubarb. Last tear my rhubarb had all sorts of holes in it from what looked like aphid damage. Between the fig and the next plum tree i have potatoes. Then i have a blank spot that i will be putting melons and or pumkins in. In the middle of that space i have 2 blue berry bushes, then another spot for melons/pumpkins then between that plum tree and the bottom of the row plum i have gooseberries in the middle with potatoes in the last section between the gooseberries and last plum tree. Another open half of bed between the 2nd plum and gooseberries. Which will be melons or pumpkins. As for the spacing i just tried to envision a good sized onion and base it off of that so maybe 3-4" away from each other.
what you just through for repellent would have been great on the grill😁
Enjoy your videos great information. Helpful as I try to be the best gardener I can.
Glad to help
Grew onions first time. Impatient self harvested too soon. Will reset early fall.
they do take for ever to grow thats for sure.
Good morning.
I plant onions 4" apart and rows 6" apart.
Late as usual they're just starting to take off, will probably harvest around August/September.
I cut the stalks and let them grow longer.
Trying short day yellow grannex prr and see what happens this year.
Hope you get a good harvest!
Wow that's actually a really decent harvest for planting so late. Did you plant sets or start from seed? I planted a sweet short day variety called 'Timon" this year and I started from seeds back in September and got them in the ground in October. Pulled them about 2 weeks ago. I've found that the one thing you have to stay on top of is weeding. Onions just don't compete well and they don't like to make big bulbs if there is root crowding from other plants. Thanks for the video!
I start everything from seed
Thank you! I've always bought plants from Dixondale. But, the family has left home. The garden is smaller. Small mail orders are too expensive. I need to start from seed.
What time in Sept worked for you? Did you start them indoors or outdoors? I'd be grateful for any hints.
I mulched my onions this year with pine animal bedding from Tractor Supply this year. I really really helped with the weed issues. I fight the devil in my garden (Bermuda grass and yellow nutsedge) but the mulch held it mostly at bay!
be careful with nitrogen tie up using wood as mulch.
@@sandybottomhomestead oh, good point. Thanks for the heads up. Maybe that’s why my onions weren’t quite as large as last year (that and I lost my first round of starts to a hard freeze so I had to replant in Feb).