Have you ever sown seeds in the Fall, or has it always been via the wintersown method? What are your thoughts about sowing several smaller staggered plantings, in Fall?
Another experiment. Is this true of elephant garlic also? Any ideas? Good Morning from N. Idaho Theresa, Well, we have had a late cool start to our very short growing season.
Our last heavy frost was middle of May with several light frost up to Mothers Day. Put out Vadalia onion sets on Mothers Day, all are up an growing nicely. Well, sounds weird but gave it a try putting in 50 of them. Hope the Lord blesses us all with a long late growing season. Hi MB , Onions are not too tough when that seed head just starts forming. If you allow them to continue they get really tough.
When you see that seed head forming, pull the onion and use it as soon as you can. You should have found it sweet, tender and delicious! Nothing like onions fresh from the garden. Hi Toni , Glad the tips were helpful. Yes, growing onions from seed is definitely a learning experience, and my hope is what your is: to each year have a steadily improving crop!
Always great to have you join the conversation Toni. I appreciate your time! All of your ideas are on my list to experiment with. Definitely want to sow seeds this fall and winter over. Want to do several staggered planting in the fall and January thru March. If replanted, the bulb will make a regular segments bulb the next year.
In general though, I think most of them should have segments cloves even if not many. Also elephant garlic makes a tall flower stalk that can grow 5 feet. Know this is a busy time for you Betty. Thanks for taking time to join in. Hey Ed! Good to hear from you. Sounds like those onions are doing great!
And yes, I hope we all will be blessed with a long late growing season! Theresa, I also, for some years, ordered from Dixondale, but not last fall. I would be thrilled to grow as many as you.
Some day maybe. Got inspired late last fall and tried my hand at starting onion seed, first time for me. I will keep trying. Onions are also on the leafcutter ants menu. I learn a little something each I read a post.
Keep trying Beverly! Awful to have to deal with that. Dixondale transplants here are doing quite well this year; out of plants, I have only had three put up seed stalks. My Copras seem to be done early — they are already laying down, have picked a few up off the ground and they are mild and delicious.
Red Candy and Texas Legend still growing. Have had the same experience with elephant garlic another reader noted, most of mine head up to cloves, but a couple will just produce a single bulb. I love the stuff and grow more each year. Unfortunately, something has been running amok in my garlic bed, knocking down plants so not sure how my harvest will do this year.
Great report Kate! Hope your garlic makes it ok in spite of the intruder. Our onions are doing great. They have seen much fluctuation in temperatures. We planted about onions and so far no bolts, but like I said, we planted late. It has been a strange year here…We had winter and then it jumped to Summer. So, will see how things go. As for elephant garlic, did you plant it in the spring or in the Fall? Also, if you have a mild winter, you will get one bulb.
This is due to the fact that elephant garlic actually has a 2 to 3 year span until maturity. I hope this helps. We plant small onions as bulbs rather than the living plants, as well as numerous varieties of onion seeds.
This year the onions planted from bulbs are in a terrible condition, whereas the seed-grown plants look quite healthy and vigorous. I am considering digging under the rows of onions planted from bulb. Stephanie , Good hearing from you. Sounds like your onions are doing great.
Thanks for the additional input on elephant garlic. Hey Millard. Any particular reason you plant sets bulbs rather than transplants living plants? Hi Theresa, Thanks for the informative post. This year we tried direct sowing onion seeds into the ground.
The best way is with a little hoop tunnel , which keeps them out of the weather entirely and can easily add 10 degrees of temperature. Alternatively you could cover them with Reemay or other brand floating row cover. This is let involved, but doesn't work as well. And if the weather turns suddenly hot, make sure to keep your onions evenly watered.
The soils needs to stay loose and friable. If it starts to get that baked-hard quality, onions will bolt because they can't expand. Help share the skills and spread the joy of organic, nutrient-dense vegetable gardening, and please Thank you This website contains affiliate links to a few quality products I can genuinely recommend.
I am here to serve you, not to sell you, and I do not write reviews for income or recommend anything I would not use myself. When an onion or shallot bolts, it grows a flower in the first year. Onions and shallots, along with garlic, are all part of the Allium family, a plant that naturally flowers once every two years.
But bolting isn't welcome on your patch when you're trying to grow lots of good-quality bulbs to eat. The best thing you can do to avoid bolting is to plant 'heat treated' sets. Our hardy heat-treated onion sets include:.
They are all available to buy between autumn and spring. These special sets have been exposed to high temperatures in a controlled zone, making them extremely resistant to bolting. Our heat-treated onion sets can be planted from mid-March. They arrive with us after a minimum of 12 weeks of heat treatment, ready for immediate despatch and immediate planting into pre-warmed soil.
Plant the onions as described and keep the cloche or fleece on for the first few weeks. Remove once the plant tip has started growing. There are lots of varieties of onions and shallots available with good resistance to bolting.
These include:. If you notice that the onion and shallots that you're growing have started to bolt, there's no need to panic; here are some tips to help:. Hurry While Stocks Last! Close menu. Open Go Back. Grow your own. Garden Care.
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