Onions

Even though onions are cheap enough to buy by the bagful, for the greatest variety, you have to grow your own—and it’s not difficult to do.

Here are some onion planting, growing, and harvesting tips!

Sure, we could just buy onion sets and plant those but there is not a wide choice of varieties available as sets.

WHICH ONION IS RIGHT FOR YOU?

Determining whether to start with onion sets, seeds, or plants, depends on what is available to you.

Here’s a primer:

Onion sets are tiny onions that will become full-size onions in about 14 weeks. Look for small sets no bigger than three-quarters of an inch in diameter.

Onions grown from seed keep well and are less likely to go to seed. Here you also get the widest range of varieties: red, yellow, or white; round, flat, or long; mild and sweet or pungent and tangy.

Onion seeds should be started indoors, as they need soil temperatures above 50°F to germinate. 

Tomorrow we shall continue, Yours in the garden Farm2Markt