NEVER buy onions or seed AGAIN

Are you keen to become self sufficient in the garden? Onions are a brilliant crop to learn to grow from seed, store, and then grow your own seeds, improving the crop quality and yield every year!
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[@TashMcMillan]

So helpful, thanks! I'm off to try seeds now 😁

[@BonesAndButtons]

The epigenetic of seed saving is quite facinating. I've managed to get hold of some Egyptian Walking Onions. Excited to get that established in my food forest nook.

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

Oh yes, it is an interesting topic. Walking onions are a great addition to a wilder food space for sure.

[@alexperrin6783]

Thanks, as always for the great info. So the key seems to be to know someone who's already growing great onions near you and grab some seeds!

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

Absolutely! Local seeds seem to be the key to good strong growth in most veggies I am discovering

[@NORMANMORRISON1940]

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[@FantailValleyHomestead]

Thanks man

[@stacyclark5910]

I like your term, “higglety-pigglety” 🤭😊

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

😁

[@mystik.mermayde.aotearoa]

This is so interesting!! I have a question about saving seeds from 6 or so different onions. Do you mix all the seeds together or do you keep them separately and continue to plant them separately? Hopefully you understand my question. Thank you! 🙏 From Tauranga 💚

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

Then I mix them all together, and share them with friends and family so everyone gets some of each.

[@thatonegirl1837]

How do you store them over winter to use again in the spring? What keeps them from rotting? I'm sorry if you said this information and I missed it. I'm always running around like crazy lol

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

It is OK, I don't remember if I said it or not haha. It needs to be cool and dry with plenty of air exchange so they don't rot.

[@thatonegirl1837]

@@FantailValleyHomestead Thanks!

[@darrenkoch1718]

I planted brown onions that I bought from the supermarket in Melbourne and collected the seeds from them. I got a couple of dozen onions but many tried to flower. Are supermarket onions long day onions?

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

It would depend where the onions are grown commercially, I think the line cut off for short day vs long day is about 37 latitude, which must mean most if not all of OZ needs long day ones? though I would expect somewhere like Perth would be hot enough to need short day onions. So basically, it depends where they were grown, if they were grown locally to you they are likely to be long day onions.

[@angelaobrien7698]

Great information. Thank you. Where do you recommend purchasing onion seed from?

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

I got mine from Sentinel Seeds in Christchurch

[@peterstevens6555]

Good morning from Auckland, New Zealand ...

[@FantailValleyHomestead]

helloooooo!

[@sararockafella]

Can you tellbke why you keep deleting my comment. I'm only trying to give you some advice

[@sararockafella]

For early seeding onions you cut back the stem that seeds once its curved round. And your onions woll carry on growing. Just cut ut where it exits the plant.