Post your trick on growing big tasty onions

Seeds or sets?

  • Seeds

    Votes: 4 44.4%
  • Onion sets

    Votes: 5 55.6%

  • Total voters
    9

Lucky Luke

Well-Known Member
Onions are really inexpensive to buy wouldnt you be better off growing something worth more money?

As a non gardener am i missing something?
 

Yodaweed

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Onions are really inexpensive to buy wouldnt you be better off growing something worth more money?

As a non gardener am i missing something?
Home grown organic produce is what you are missing

Onions are difficult to grow here as well, my advice is to plant them as early as you can, they can take a light frost.

Also make sure to water quite often.
 

ANC

Well-Known Member
On a related note, my garlic seems to be doing well. I saw there are shorter season onions and longer ones. I will try and put some in the ground in March or so.
 

weedhead24

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On a related note, my garlic seems to be doing well. I saw there are shorter season onions and longer ones. I will try and put some in the ground in March or so.
yes when I threw alot of seeds a few came up but sprouted badass . Did you least expect it? I did
 

ANC

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I started the garlic from bulbs, onions from seed. but way too late.
Gardening is going to be interesting this summer. Dam levels are at 30% compared to about 56 same time last year.
We are at the end of the rainy season too.
 

Poontanger

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If U want a good size bulb 'a great trick, is when there about 70% of the grow cycle, bend em over, i just walk on mine. & this will stop as much goodness going to the leaves,& put it into the bulb ,
Do weekly , as they spring back up pretty quick Also at this point, use a low nitrogen fert , or a flower nute like 6-14-12 or thereabouts if seed heads start to appear , just chop em out , the plants energy needs to be directed underground at this stage, not above
 

Poontanger

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Another usefull tip ,is if planting seedlings, after there planted,come along with scissors & cut the top 2 thirds of , this compensates for root damage, &doesnt leave as much for the roots to support , the seedlings respond a lot quicker
 
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