Onion Talk for year 2022
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Comments (2)Hey Donna, I responded to your question in Southern gardening yesterday but not really about growing full size onions. I haven't done that in a while, but to grow onions, you have to plant in the early spring. As the bulb grows, you sorta rake the dirt away from the onion. Sometimes,it is kinda iffy growing large onions due to rain. I have more trouble with red onions rotting. As far as storing these, we always tie them up with some rattan or jute or some type of string and hang them up. I think you were calling the other kind bunching onions. I wrote back saying my hubby thinks bunching is the same thing as multiplying. You can plant those in spring, summer or fall. Of course, these are usually grown for the green tops. (Just to make sure we are talking the correct onion here) These are the ones that are great to eat with turnip greens and cornbread in the fall and winter. LOL As far as leeks, I have never grown them before. They are much milder than onions. Not sure when to plant those. Fall might be a good time for those too. Good luck! Luv those onions, marie...See MoreLet's talk onions
Comments (38)Captain Dirt, I plant directly into the soil, planting shallowly because that is what onions prefer. I weed the beds about once a week for the first month or so. Then I add mulch, but I put the mulch only in the open area between the onions and don't have it up so close to the onions that it touches them. (In a rainy year, wet mulch in direct contact with the onions can lead to disease issues.) I usually don't put paper on the ground under the mulch in the onion bed beacause the onions don't like being covered up...the bulbs like to sort of pop up out of the ground as they enlarge and grow, and they grow better if you let the bulbs expose themselves, so to speak. I've tried growing onions every way possible, and leaving the soil unmulched right around the onion plant works best for me in my garden. Sometimes I have to pull out weeds that pop up in that open space, but it isn't that big of a deal and the effort pays off because onions that are shallowly planted and have the mulch pushed back a little from the plant do better than those that have mulch touching them. If I were planting the way you want to plant with paper under mulch, I'd cut an "X" in the paper where each onion will go and fold back the paper around the X so the paper doesn't lie back down over the soil. So, each X'd area is a little spot of bare soil. I'd put the soaker hose under the paper before planting. So, in order to plant, prepare your soil. Then, put down your soaker hose first and turn on the hose and run it while you can look at it and make sure it doesn't leave any dry areas. If it does, rearrange the hose. If you're going to use a pelleted fertilizer, put it on the ground as a top dressing, or mix it into the soil thoroughly as you prepare the soil, under the paper, but not where the X's are cut for the onions. You don't want granular or pelleted fertilizer that close to tender young roots. Put down your paper and use something to hold it down temporarily until you're through planting and can mulch. Plant your onions through the X's cut in the paper. Lay your mulch on top of the paper at least an inch thick, but leave the X'd area unmulched so the bulb can pop up out of the ground in a couple of months as it enlarges. Water the area well. After that, strive to get your onions an inch of moisture a week. Regularly weed and remove any weeds that sprout in your mulch or in the open soil next to each onion plant. Add more mulch as time goes on, but continue to keep it back away from the onions. In roughly 90-110 days (if you're growing here in or near Oklahoma), you'll have nice, big fat onions ready to harvest. Dawn...See MoreGrowing Welsh onion or Japanese Bunching onion Negi, anyone???
Comments (22)"I keep reading that the germination rate of allium seeds falls off very sharply after the first year. I am planning on buying some seeds and there will be far more than I need for the moment. Will the seeds essentially not be usable next year?" Unprotected, at ambient temperature, the germination rate of onion seed will indeed drop off very rapidly. But if frozen, the seed will last for years. The seeds need to be dried to very low moisture content before freezing, so if your environment is humid, use desiccant to dry the seed first. Once dry, store the seeds in an air-tight container, (such as a ball jar, or doubled-up freezer bags) and place them in the freezer. When removing frozen seed for planting, the container must be allowed to reach room temperature before opening, or condensation can form on the seeds (which will quickly destroy them). It is a good idea to separate a large amount of the seeds which will be frozen into small zippered plastic bags (such as those sold in craft shops). That will allow you to quickly remove only the amount of seeds needed, while leaving the rest undisturbed....See MoreJanuary 2022, Week 4: Out of the Deep Freeze
Comments (37)Well, I went through MY Evernote looking for a "Mother of a Hubbard" blog post about tying down row covers so you could raise the sides for warm weather. Couldn't find it. I am not pleased with Evernote. Periodically they have changed the format used, which in some cases requires me to go into settings to find the original post. If you're on the free version, you're only allowed a certain amount of space per month. The last update changed the home page, after 8 years of using it, and being familiar with it. It takes forever just to load and to load chosen notes. Be aware of these things before you invest too much time in it. I used to love it. When I tried to migrate it to a new note app, 99% of the notes were un-readable. I can't get excited about seeds. Of course, I'm doing a lot of napping since I got home from the hospital. Went to primary doc yesterday. He showed me with graphs just how sick I was. It was scary. If you haven't gotten the 2 pneumonia shots, DO IT. Apparently the Step P bacteria I had (not the same as step throat) is one covered by the vaccine and that means I rarely cough. I'm just tired. I've had pneumonia before. If they hadn't gone out of their way to prove it, I wouldn't believe I had it. They were treating me with steroids and Covid treatments at first (they were sure I had it at first). And heavy duty antibiotics. It seems everything they did un-balanced some other system in my body, like raising blood sugar and blood pressure and potassium was low. Happy tractoring. Make friends with some one like Larry. The local repair places will have a back log during certain times, like haying season. I don't think my collards survived the last cold spell. I should have told Ron to water them. Need to let the dogs out....See MoreHU-422368488
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