afroman esposito perhaps a safety period if the first sowing gets killed by a late frost. That gives time to replant and not run out in the stockroom. Personally I love onions, both fresh eating and cooked. And many times I use them as a filler in dishes to cheaply increase the volume without adding carbs. I would calculate 5 onions per week per adult (age 13+) and 3 onions per week per child (age 5-12) and anyone under age 5 gets to eat leftovers ;) I would also add a 10 week overlap between storage and harvest
I grow Redwing, Spanish and shallots. I figured out a great tip after a couple of years of growing 250 a year. I do green transplants into the garden in March. They grow larger with more irrigation. I leave them in until after they die down and completely cure in the garden. The tip is to turn off the irrigation to onion rows once it's evident that they are almost all bent over. Then you pull perfectly cured onions right out of the garden.
@cruciferousvegetable My mom did this.. I remember stepping gently on the onions when they were" done" and ready to cure. Thank you for the tips? Did U start your onions from seed?
@@michellereichert9420 No, I started the onions from green transplants, from dixondale farms. I am sure seeds and sets work, but to get the largest onions, transplants work best in northern climates.
We eat many onions each week. I need to master the art of preservation. I’m working hard and making progress each year. We are right up there between 3-5 /week.
Thanks for sharing... We too are Eurbin Farmers... we own the Garden of Eurbin... (our last name). We are actually out in the country a bit... new to the CSA scene and loving it... please continue to share we sre learning lots from you... 🤓
You’re an inspiration to us all:) this is my first year gardening and you have helped me so much. So has self sufficient me, MI gardener, and Deep South homestead. It’s so exciting to gather my harvests and eat REAL FOOD!!!! This is the beginning of a long journey and I want to thank you for helping me get it started. I’m going BIG next year:)
Thank you Curtis. Hope to see more of these. Short and simple. Love that. What is the best storage method over winter?What type of fruits and vegetables we can store or grown over winter time.
Luke from MIGardener mentioned you in one of his videos and I'm so glad he did. My husband and I have been considering homesteading and I like your approach.
what is interesting is all the news about onions being responsible to salmonella, this year ...you said you were planting onions I decided to plant them too, thank God we have worry free onions!
My dad planted bunching onions in bunches, I thought he did it wrong...so I spread them out...all over the garden. 🤦♀️. It’s great to know A. I was wrong, I just apologized to my dad, and B. They might be ok because I thought I’d ruined them because they haven’t died but didn’t seem to grow very much. We didn’t plant till April? So anyway, I have more hope for them than I’d had before this video. Thank you.
A family of three, we could easily cook up one onion a day, if you consider preserving salsa and making stock and such. Plus red onion pickle, OMG. I think I could personally eat one onion all by myself every day.
Haha.. I just came into my house for a cuppa after sowing a new tray of onion seeds and I see this. I like to have onions in my garden year round. Given onions are daylength sensitive there are friends closer to the equator who are not able to grow onion bulbs and make do with just long onions. Just as good in my opinion. I agree on the space advantages in growing them, as well as the ease of having plenty of them for fresh eating and/or storage. I'm lucky enough to be able to grow both storage onions and spring onions with little effort and the weather here allows me to have spring onions all year round. I have a few spots I like to transfer or plant a selected type in to in order to save seeds too, meaning I can also easily collect plenty of fresh seeds from their abundant and beautiful round flower heads, which the bees love, for new crops for the next few years and also delicious onion sprouts. Yum.
I direct seed onions with the jang seeder with a f24 brushes down .5" spacing and harvest young green onions as they grow to thin them out and allow about 1/3 of all the onions to get full sized and cure in the hoophouse
Also of note, it's very good to blanch and dehydrate all your veg for soup after harvesting and they will last all winter! And you can even add dehydrated veg to any casserole and they rehydrate really well.
Saw Dowding do this and thought it needed an astronomical amount of compost, would poorer quality soil support such dense planting or would it be better to space them out single?
There are lots of fruits/veggies that will store for a year. There is an apple tree that if the apples are stored correctly on the homestead will last one year before degrading. Many root crops can be stored in the ground over winter.
I use the green tige to I cut it small piece for salad, I put some in dehydrated and I put some in ziploc and freeze it During winter it will go in soup
They are on the metric system in Canada 🇨🇦. It's complicated but if you first convert days to waffles of maple syrup, then to liters of beer and back to weeks it works out to 56 weeks but its =to 52 weeks in the states
7a ag zone... in production farmland for sale 3 to 4k per acre... anyone want to buy 20 acres together to get the cheaper price the divide proportionately... Near the ocean... 125k gets a pretty good house.
I plant mine in clumps too, 6 or 7 then thin some salad onions out and let the rest bulb up. One tip I'd love to know is how you get an extra 4 weeks out of a year, and do you have those in mid summer? I know you're a Don but that's some magic shizzle going on haha!
I have onions still trying to grow. It just snowed, i brought in the container they are growing inside. Now, that the weather has turned to 40 f highs, should i try to havd them finish growing inside under a grow light?
What variety are these? Sorry, mau have missed it. My onion crop the last couple years has been pathetic! Also, could not get red onion this year at ALL! Sold out everywhere!
Hi Curtis/ fellow backyard gardeners. I have a question. I tryed two times sowing onions and all end up with no to very small bulbs. What did I do wrong? Any help will be appreciated. Btw I live in Toronto.
I don't know a lot about growing onions, so I found this video informative. Especially your approach for using the "clumping" method. As you described, your approach is to remove the largest onions from each clump to free up room for the rest of the clump to bulb out. My limited understanding for harvesting onions (for best storage) is to harvest the bulbs when the leaves fall over and start drying out. With the clumping method, you recommend removing bulbs before the tops fall over. Doesn't this affect the long-term storage of the bulbs that you harvest early? And thanks for posting. Cheers.
When I search online for red wing onion seed I see a variety of options; hybrid non gmo, F1, etc which one do I want? Do you sell these seeds and if so can you post a link? Or a link to where you buy them? Thanks
My onions didn't fair well in my first year. Half of mine had worms 🤢 and only got about the size of an apricot. I think i crowded them with my potatoes, rookie mistake 🤪
That is good. They tip over to pinch off the opening so fruit flies or rot does not set into the center of the onion. At that point cut off irrigation or quit watering. Let them dry in the ground until there is no green. Then pull them out and dust them off. They are cured. The only time to pull them otherwise is to eat as you go or if you are about to get a ton of rain for an extended period.
Dude, most respect but in Australia we have 52 weeks in a year. Not sure how you squeeze another four in!
efficiency.
Here in Canada we also have 52 weeks and I was wondering the same I would love if anybody could actually clarify it
afroman esposito perhaps a safety period if the first sowing gets killed by a late frost. That gives time to replant and not run out in the stockroom.
Personally I love onions, both fresh eating and cooked. And many times I use them as a filler in dishes to cheaply increase the volume without adding carbs.
I would calculate 5 onions per week per adult (age 13+) and 3 onions per week per child (age 5-12) and anyone under age 5 gets to eat leftovers ;)
I would also add a 10 week overlap between storage and harvest
Nice gamma comment
52, 56. Who’s counting! Maybe it’s the long summer days being that far North!
I grow Redwing, Spanish and shallots. I figured out a great tip after a couple of years of growing 250 a year. I do green transplants into the garden in March. They grow larger with more irrigation. I leave them in until after they die down and completely cure in the garden. The tip is to turn off the irrigation to onion rows once it's evident that they are almost all bent over. Then you pull perfectly cured onions right out of the garden.
@cruciferousvegetable My mom did this.. I remember stepping gently on the onions when they were" done" and ready to cure. Thank you for the tips? Did U start your onions from seed?
@@michellereichert9420 No, I started the onions from green transplants, from dixondale farms.
I am sure seeds and sets work, but to get the largest onions, transplants work best in northern climates.
Thank you for keeping these videos available.
Would like to see more on the cycle of reseed for next year's crops .
We eat many onions each week. I need to master the art of preservation. I’m working hard and making progress each year. We are right up there between 3-5 /week.
Isn’t it great that here in Kelowna we get an extra 4 weeks a year 😂
This is my first year growing onions..they're small but not bad for first time.. i need to grow ALOT of onions lol
Thanks for sharing... We too are Eurbin Farmers... we own the Garden of Eurbin... (our last name). We are actually out in the country a bit... new to the CSA scene and loving it... please continue to share we sre learning lots from you... 🤓
Redwing make a great boot too 👍🏻
So helpful vid ! Growing onions for family in backyard. We use approx. 5-6 onions/ wk. Thank you for sharing your success!
Redwing is my fav storage, rock hard, keeps forever
I grew red onions this year in my raised beds. I also did them in bunches and they all grew beautifully.
WHAT VARIETY IS THE ONION. GREAT CROP.
Redwing Onion.
You’re an inspiration to us all:) this is my first year gardening and you have helped me so much. So has self sufficient me, MI gardener, and Deep South homestead. It’s so exciting to gather my harvests and eat REAL FOOD!!!! This is the beginning of a long journey and I want to thank you for helping me get it started. I’m going BIG next year:)
Thank you Curtis. Hope to see more of these. Short and simple. Love that. What is the best storage method over winter?What type of fruits and vegetables we can store or grown over winter time.
Luke from MIGardener mentioned you in one of his videos and I'm so glad he did. My husband and I have been considering homesteading and I like your approach.
what is interesting is all the news about onions being responsible to salmonella, this year ...you said you were planting onions I decided to plant them too, thank God we have worry free onions!
52 weeks in a year you mean?
I love the informal videos. It's like I'm face timing with my family in Alberta (but cooler)
My dad planted bunching onions in bunches, I thought he did it wrong...so I spread them out...all over the garden. 🤦♀️. It’s great to know A. I was wrong, I just apologized to my dad, and B. They might be ok because I thought I’d ruined them because they haven’t died but didn’t seem to grow very much. We didn’t plant till April? So anyway, I have more hope for them than I’d had before this video. Thank you.
Wondering about the solar light in the onion bed: is it more than decoration? Is there a practical reason for it?
Btw, you have a beautiful garden and a beautiful family.
I love the tutu in the garden. Just like my girls. So much fun
A family of three, we could easily cook up one onion a day, if you consider preserving salsa and making stock and such. Plus red onion pickle, OMG. I think I could personally eat one onion all by myself every day.
Nice work sir. 56 weeks in a year?
Canada is on the metric system. 52 weeks in the USA, 56 in Canada.
Thank you for the Bitchute link. I was searching but couldn't find you on there.
I find that doing a Google search with Bitchute included in the text, works better than searching direct on Bitchute itself.
So nice
Thank you, Curtis.
Haha.. I just came into my house for a cuppa after sowing a new tray of onion seeds and I see this. I like to have onions in my garden year round. Given onions are daylength sensitive there are friends closer to the equator who are not able to grow onion bulbs and make do with just long onions. Just as good in my opinion. I agree on the space advantages in growing them, as well as the ease of having plenty of them for fresh eating and/or storage. I'm lucky enough to be able to grow both storage onions and spring onions with little effort and the weather here allows me to have spring onions all year round. I have a few spots I like to transfer or plant a selected type in to in order to save seeds too, meaning I can also easily collect plenty of fresh seeds from their abundant and beautiful round flower heads, which the bees love, for new crops for the next few years and also delicious onion sprouts. Yum.
Great Video
I direct seed onions with the jang seeder with a f24 brushes down .5" spacing and harvest young green onions as they grow to thin them out and allow about 1/3 of all the onions to get full sized and cure in the hoophouse
Put your red onions in a mason jar with vinegar and sugar. So delicious as a side and lasts for weeks in the fridge. .
We eat three red onions a week. Thanks for idea planting in clumps.
Also of note, it's very good to blanch and dehydrate all your veg for soup after harvesting and they will last all winter! And you can even add dehydrated veg to any casserole and they rehydrate really well.
52 weeks is a year in Canada.
Saw Dowding do this and thought it needed an astronomical amount of compost, would poorer quality soil support such dense planting or would it be better to space them out single?
The method works the same in poor soil though the bulbs will be smaller.
Mighty Micro Farm awesome good to know thanks! 😊
Excellent content mate! Cheers!
There are lots of fruits/veggies that will store for a year. There is an apple tree that if the apples are stored correctly on the homestead will last one year before degrading. Many root crops can be stored in the ground over winter.
Thank you, Curtis. Loved this video. Loved the braiding. and The root cellar at I think U said 10C. hmm still learning.
We have had great luck with copra onions
With Covid and cooking full meals for my family of 10 we use almost 4 onions a day ;)
I use the green tige to
I cut it small piece for salad, I put some in dehydrated and I put some in ziploc and freeze it
During winter it will go in soup
5 x 56... you're gonna have to explain that one to me, because if Canada has 4 extra weeks a year, I'm moving right now.
They are on the metric system in Canada 🇨🇦. It's complicated but if you first convert days to waffles of maple syrup, then to liters of beer and back to weeks it works out to 56 weeks but its =to 52 weeks in the states
@@billyd357 The internet does not disappoint. :-P
Thanks for the great info. Will try some Redwings for next year.
I obvcourse use the paper pot transplanter 🤣
Congrats on your onions. My didn't do so well this year as well as my potatoes had a poor yield.
I go thru bout 7-8 onions a week
Just the variety of onion I was looking for. :)
I planted this year a lot if onikns. Hoping enough to last thru the year. About this amount too
How long does the paperpot paper remain visible in the soil?
7a ag zone... in production farmland for sale 3 to 4k per acre... anyone want to buy 20 acres together to get the cheaper price the divide proportionately...
Near the ocean... 125k gets a pretty good house.
Any further details? Where?
@@whereswendy8544 Mid Atlantic states... will give you my email if your interest grows.
I plant mine in clumps too, 6 or 7 then thin some salad onions out and let the rest bulb up. One tip I'd love to know is how you get an extra 4 weeks out of a year, and do you have those in mid summer? I know you're a Don but that's some magic shizzle going on haha!
I have onions still trying to grow. It just snowed, i brought in the container they are growing inside. Now, that the weather has turned to 40 f highs, should i try to havd them finish growing inside under a grow light?
What is the name of the place you are hanging your onions to cure?
Merci pour ton partage de connaissance gratuite l'ami Canadien ^_^
Cured?
Your year has 56 weeks? LOL. Good video nonetheless.
What variety are these? Sorry, mau have missed it. My onion crop the last couple years has been pathetic! Also, could not get red onion this year at ALL! Sold out everywhere!
Hi Curtis/ fellow backyard gardeners. I have a question. I tryed two times sowing onions and all end up with no to very small bulbs. What did I do wrong? Any help will be appreciated. Btw I live in Toronto.
I tried onions again for the first time in a few years and they were all full of little white worms:( What can i do better next time?
I live in the hills of Santa Cruz....Is it to late to start onions?
I don't know a lot about growing onions, so I found this video informative. Especially your approach for using the "clumping" method. As you described, your approach is to remove the largest onions from each clump to free up room for the rest of the clump to bulb out. My limited understanding for harvesting onions (for best storage) is to harvest the bulbs when the leaves fall over and start drying out. With the clumping method, you recommend removing bulbs before the tops fall over. Doesn't this affect the long-term storage of the bulbs that you harvest early?
And thanks for posting. Cheers.
2:22 in a Slavic part of Europe, we would eat that whole bed in a week;) anyways, great content Curtis,love ur videos
How can you tell when they’re cured?
How do you keep weeds out of those onions? I have so many weeds with mine.
We pull them.
You’ll need vastly more onions after the collapse
When I search online for red wing onion seed I see a variety of options; hybrid non gmo, F1, etc which one do I want? Do you sell these seeds and if so can you post a link? Or a link to where you buy them? Thanks
I'm curious about the light placed in the middle of the bed at 3:10. What purpose does it serve?
Decoration.
My onions didn't fair well in my first year. Half of mine had worms 🤢 and only got about the size of an apricot. I think i crowded them with my potatoes, rookie mistake 🤪
I have 2 acres what are the best crops you recommend ? I am only used to tree fruit.
It totally depends on where you live and what your goals are. I like to focus on calorie dense foods: Potatoes, carrots, squash, etc.
2 onion
s a week?? 12 comes closer
What is it with the double advertisement?
What planet has 56 weeks in a year ? Is he gardening on Mars ?
Onions we can eat. The real question is how much mouthwash do you have in stock?
Thought onions were verboten now nationwide.
Only if you’re buying from the store not your own grown onions.
@@mynameistwohawks Thanks
There are 52 weeks in a year
I think you said 56 twice
Ok, I'll go back and edit that right away ;)
What’s the secret ? all of my onions have tipped there tops already 😩
That is good. They tip over to pinch off the opening so fruit flies or rot does not set into the center of the onion. At that point cut off irrigation or quit watering. Let them dry in the ground until there is no green. Then pull them out and dust them off. They are cured. The only time to pull them otherwise is to eat as you go or if you are about to get a ton of rain for an extended period.
But onions taste nasty