Depends on how much heat you experience. These are designed for summer growing and onions are a cool weather crop. It is late to start onions from seed, but if you can keep them alive, you should get green onions. Long day onions are designed to begin bulbing in late June early July. Takes about 16 hours of daylight. Short Day onions bulb in March and can need as little as 10 hours.

I can't grow seeds in a pot either, I did get some CA poppies to grow this year from seeds, surprised me! I got some free in the mail and all I did was sprinkle them out on the side of the house where we aren't doing anything yet for fun and then we covered it up with walkon bark so the 5 pets won't carry in the mud this winter. It's growing! Poppies grew wild all around me up in the mtns except at my property. I tried and tried to grow them on purpose and couldn't, so imagine my surprise that I just threw out the seeds and didn't even scratch these in and they're growing.... So I think that's great for you Brenda! I just might try seeds again then, LOL. Watch it won't work for me when I do it on purpose... Ok Pat, I get it now. You know what they say about perseverance. That's the same thing I do, I never give up either. I've always done the same thing with potted roses. Just found out today it was never what I potted with, it was the size of the pots!!! Do you know how many roses I've killed and how much money I've wasted trying to grow in the wrong size pots??? ALOT! And for 14 years! All the time I lived in the mountains when I couldn't keep the deer from the roses in the ground. I found a sign in a catalog I want, 'scuse the french though, it says "Don't Piss Off The Fairies". I'm going to put it out in the garden:) It will go right along with all the fairy lights and gazing balls and the dragon I have on order and the large 3 piece dragon arising through the dirt that I'm saving my money for now. Leslie

Ed, I'd consider 3 by 8 instead of 4x8. Better yet, 3 by 12, since your boards are 12 foot. I had the 4x4 beds first and was constantly circling around them to do stuff, especially in the early part of preparing and planting. I found it irritatingYou can step over a 3 foot width. Right now I have a 3 foot wide, what i call, growing strip that edges the south and east side of my (small) yard. I just have a stepping stone about every six or 8 feet so I can step across. My growing bed is surrounded by the sidewalk on the outsides, which is kind of nice. I can stand on the sidewalk and tend to that side of the garden. This is my first year at this house, but nobody has bothered it so far. Gardens are great therapy for helping to heal the greiving. Hope it goes well for you.

When I started growing onions, I got seedlings from a local greenhouse in a little black tub, probably smaller than 3" x 5". There were 50 or 70 onions in it. So when I started growing from seed, I did the same thing. I use something about the size of a lunch meat tub, 3" or so deep. I "duck tape" clear tubs so roots stay in the dark. And write the onion type on the tape with magic marker. Drill half a dozen 1/4" or 2/8" drain holes in the bottom of the tubs. before you start. [I cut up a plastic milk jug, add water and place the tubs in the jug to water from the bottom.] You can only leave the onion seedlings in the tubs about 10 weeks before planting out. Dump the entire mess into a bucket of water, soak and shake them around to remove soil and separate, take your time. The roots usually come loose without a lot of root loss. Almost every one "makes it" through the transplanting. I just started about 400 seeds (60% just for green onions, I don't care as much about them) in well under 1 square foot of soil surface area. Grow light space is valuable...