HUGE Onion Harvest // How to Grow Huge Onions!
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- In this video I finally get to harvest my onions to see just how big they are. I'll let you in on how they got this big and I'll also show you how to harvest and cure onions for storage.
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I have grown an intermediate onion the last 2 years. They grow large and store really well. Over 6 months. Candy is the variety
I’m in northern Ontario and I’ve tried onions and garlic for 2 years now. I have had horrible allium miner issues. I’m still able to salvage most of the crop if I preserve them right away but they will not store. I’m going to try and come up with a way to cover them for next year.
Im having issues with pill bugs/rolly polly's. Didnt think they'd go after onions but sure enough
@@DebRoo11 hmmmm I don’t have those so I don’t know what could help with those. I’m going to look into a solarization of some areas before I plant next year. It supposedly will kill overwintering bugs. I don’t particularly like it could kill beneficials but I don’t like my onions destroyed either.
@@kelleyleblanc5025 i may try nematodes
My garlic did the neck breaking thing. Didn’t know garlic would do that too. Went out one day to most bent over so they were ready!
Brian, you have green thumbs & fingers😮🧅🧅. Nw Nevada desert & all I get are golf ball size 😤. The winds here are very strong & blows sand alll over ‼️. I even tried spooning.. no luck 😢. They get covered with lots of sand🥴. My gators about the same.. but I keep trying!!
Love , watch & learn 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Onion "science" and onion growing comes down to some simple points-
(1) Onions are bulbs - not tubers (potatoes, sweet potatoes), not leafies (lettuce, cabbage, ...), and not roots (carrots, turnips). Bulbs like to grow within a small surface area, and atop the surface. They are not carrot roots or radishes that like to have their roots buried up to their shoulders. Onions like to have their rootlets being the only deep part of the vegetable searching for nutrients and water under and around their soil perimeter. Thus ! - roots like to be near the surface, and down deep, the bulb (at most depth) lies to sit on the ground. That is why you sow onion seeds in the very smallest depth of soil.
(2) Onions are alliums - meaning - they are sulfurous bulbs (onions, garlic, shallots, scallions, chives, leeks, ramps, ransoms). Cruciferous vegetables are sulfur vegetables (cabbage, kale, collards, tree kale, tree collard, brussel sprouts, ... turnips, rutabagas). Remember that word - sulfur.
(3) So to get the best sulfur vegetables - you want to apply sulfur or "magnesium sulfate" Epsom salts to the allium beds. The hydrated sulfur (weak sulfuric acid) breaks down the minerals and metals in the soil, making them easier to consume. Epsom salts applied to an allium bed - magnesium for chlorophyll and maximum photosynthesis of sugars, starches, proteins, and growth.
(4) Hydration - yes. Irrigate the onions to fill up all their cellular structures, as well as having firm and tall leaves. The "ONLY" reason why onion leaves fall over, is not due to age and maturity, it is lack of water. Onions can be perennials (as well as the other allium bulbs). The only way onions have fallen leaves is extreme weather, heat, lack of irrigation, dehydration and thus pre-mature aging and dying, and falling over leaves. Maximum hydration will NOT have fallen over leaves. The only issue of harvesting is when you want to harvest them ...
(5) Look at an onion. It is make up of multiple 10s of internal layers. Notice the leaves - they are also made up of older outer leaves and younger inner leaves. It is these outer leaves and those paper-thin onion "skins" that were the younger bulb's growth. All growth of onions happens in the center, upward, and outward. TO KEEP AN ONION GROWING, is hydration, proper fertilization, appropriate seasonal growing, and watching those internal leaves keep growing and growing. When you see a stop to those inner leaves, you know that the onion has achieved its maturity ... and will then "naturally" go to seed.
(6) Maturation of an onion and going to seed - happens most-times by bad gardening practices. Lack of watering, and a dying onion will attempt in its last breaths to go to seed - to make a future generation of seeds. Overheating and drying out will go to seed. A properly mature onion plant will have tall and firm leaves, AND shoot up a seed stalk - yet not die. It is a perennial, thus a seasonal shoot of seeds will be its seasonal production - and it will continue to live - with proper nutrition, tending, fertilization, hydration.
(7) Overwintering onions in the soil, also makes them perennial. With Fall, "they decide" when they will fall their leaves, saves all excess energies of sugars into the bulb, and go dormant. By allowing onions to naturally fall, and covering them up with DRY mulcings, allows them their own "root cellaring" environment, minimal dehydration (just as the ancestors used root cellars - dry, cool and sand or sawdust sucking up any moisture keeping the bulbs (not molding etc) - and the moist sand or sawdust would keep the moisture content of the onion intact. The same can happen with garden onions in temperate grow zones. In Spring, uncover, and they will resprout new leaves (from the inner core) and grow even larger (!).
(8) One CAN grow even more HUGE and IMMENSE onion bulbs with the proper (and highest) of tending, nutrition, fertilization, mulching, and hydration.
(9) To get less sulfurous onions, tend the allium bed with alkaline ph calcium (as well as magnesium). You will get close to Vidalia or Walla Wall onions - with delicious sweet onion flavors. The same magnesium also helps with the chlorophyll and photosynthesis processes.
(10) Don't waste onion greens, by laying them out - broken and drying. If you are going to dry out an onion-and-root bulb, then cut off the leaves 2 inches above the bulb, allowing that leaf growth to dry out - and keep the onion from rotting or molding from the inner leaves inwards - the real cause of molding of onions when the younger inner leaves rot, while the outer leaves are drying out. Keep the leaves, and dry out separately, blanch and fresh freeze, or wash and freeze dry for onion greens for soups, stews, etc. Onions leaves, like leeks, take immense time to dry out - while braiding up garlic, shallots, or scallions with thinner and smaller leaves can accomplish drying with ease. Use the cut leaves, or feed to the rabbits, quail, chickens, ducks, geese, pigs (not to milking cows/goats/sheep - can be fed when they are in the drying off period before next cycle of breeding and pregnancy). Dry the onions and roots until the roots are totally dried out and stiff, while the onion has dehydrated further outside bulb layer of skins and has a tight and compact skin around the leaves - and the cut leaves portion is totally dried out and retracted back to the rest of the onion bulb surface for total drying out of the outer surfaces.
(11) To even get better results, just dehydrate (air drying or freeze drying) the cut up portions of onion slices, and put into clean, dry, and cool jars in the pantry. One Canadian YTer took 5# of onions,, dehydrated and put them into 2 quarts ! It is only water that can then be rehydrated within the soup or stew. Would you rather have long-term onion storage, or onions with water that you have to constantly have to watch for mold, or use quickly in large amounts as a short-term storage and cooking option. The ancestors (not having dehydration devices used the root cellar method) - and short-term storage of fresh onions for quick starts in the Fall and early Winter. The rest of the root cellaring would go through Winter and Early Spring - and then any replanting of any remaining root cellared bulbs (NO CUT ROOTS !!!) would be replanted in the Spring for regrowth - alongside onion seeds. Otherwise, these overwintered root cellar onions would be fed to the pigs. So onverwintering in a root cellar or in an over-mulched garden, or dehydrating and storage are the best options for onions.
(12) Enjoy your onions !!!!
What is a good fertilizing schedule for onions?
@@Amanda-cn3pk Fertilize the bed in the Fall, pre-Spring soak and sprout the onion shoots in the house. When soil reaches 60F, transplant. No real hardening off here before transplanting. Can also put some compost, manure tea into the shoot hole before planting. Plant the shoot, and sprinkle some good fertilizer and denatured manure/manure tea 1 inch away from the shoot on both sides of the onion row - makes the roots reach down (strong vertical stability, strong outward roots, horizontal stability. When onions get to 3 inches, can fertilize again. 6 inches, 9 inches, 12 inches. With all this sub-surface irrigation and fertilization you should be making softball-sized onion bulbs. Can do the same for garlic, make a chive SHRUB (!), shallots, scallions, ramps, and ransoms. Depending on your grow zone, (and whether you over-winter the bulbs in the soil, bend down the fresh greens, and cover over) ... or harvest by bending down the greens, when they are dry, dig up the bulbs, also dry out on the surface or a sunny patio deck (etc), and store in root celler or dry COOL pantry space - with lots of air space - not flowing air - but air space so that sulfur compounds and the humid drying bulbs can attain their final storage shell of outer dry tight skins.
I thought onions were billenials
@@kudjo24 A MAJORITY of onions are biennials. But, this means planting seeds and growing them in place for their lifetime. As such, my comment could be mistaken as saying perennial (which I did say). An onion, like any other vegetable, given massive and proper fertilization and irrigation - will surpass all homestead single year grow-and-harvest garden crops. Overwintering an onion into its 2nd year, and also harvesting its seeds before Fall, one can stop part of the time clock of aging for an onion and give it more garden time. The only reason for plants to die in a single year is fertilizer and irrigation - and harvesting after the plant matures and goes to seed. Seeding is literal seasonal or lifetime dying off, and creating great energies for its offspring seeds. If you prevent the plants from seeding, and cut down the greens, and overwinter - you will have extended the life of the plant (without seeding and seasonal dying off with its plant hormones). This keeps the plant from not knowing its age, and still grow (and regrow greens in the Spring) and continue to grow. One can selectively harvest the outer leaves of the onion (of which the inner leaves are the youngest. The onion will continue to grow and bloom from its innermost youngest leaves, while the outer leaves become the mature and dying leaves. If you keep the plant from having mature leaves and seeding, it can only respond like a young onion plant and keep growing more young greens.
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The dream garden of many people. Very beautiful
If I plant in October the onions will encounter cold and frost. Will that affect them
I agree 100% with you.I grew the biggest onions in my 35 years of gardening this year.Lots of rain lots of nitrogen.I tried an experiment cutting the tops down on some and spooning with poor results they stopped growing! Greetings from SW Ontario Canada love your channel thanks
Planning to grow onions 🥹🎉
QUESTION - What regiment of fertilizer did you do?
This is my first year growing onions. I was given red onion plant and I sowed my own in winter. I watched this video after I started. So... not sure how they will do. Fingers crossed.
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Those are big ass onions
Onions are a mystery. Ancient cultures in Meso America, Europe, Egypt, Suma, India and China all show imagery of the onion, before the written word. No one knows where they were first grown. Chefs know it as the great tenderiser for cooking meat. This must be a very long story.
Onions are fucking great! 😂
I live in Indiana and have trouble with some high winds that blow over the tops and break them, so the quit growing after that. Very disappointing. We planted 600 one year to sell at our market and only got 50 out of it because of the winds.
HELP ME BRIAN, I have never in 4 years of trying different varieties of onions and different ways of planting have never got an onion to bulb up . My big ones are the size of a marble. ANY NEW TIPS!😊 THANK YOU
😂😂😂 you are not alone
Why break them rather than letting them break on their own? And, what breed of onion are you using?
I remember the day my ex sent me a breakup messages, my Mum asked me what I was reading and I told her "tips on how to cook a delicious meal" , she said "but why are you crying"? Then I replied "I've reached where they are cutting onions"😭iiiiiiiii
I grow Egyptian Walking onions because they are easy and I havent purchased a green onion in years. But Id like to try growing onions like yours. Can you talk about different long day and short day varieties? what does that mean and how do we determine what varieties work for us in different parts of the country? Also what is better, planting seed or planting starts?
Half of my onions are big and half are gold ball size and the tops are bent. Do I just pick the small ones? Will they grow bigger if I left them? Thank u .
I’ve never seen the point in buying onions to plant the onions. I will do seeds, but I’m not going to buy sets when I can start my own.
Sets have never worked for me anyway
Congratulations Brian, those onions are HUGE! 🌸💚🙃
This is the 3rd year I've grown onions. And, they are finally pretty respectable. I'm in 5b and the issue I have is getting them in the ground soon enough for optimal bulbing. We can still get freezing temps into April (avg last frost is early May) - so it's always a timing thing. BUT - yours are spectacular! Congratz. Now - would love a follow-up to see what you do with them. Those are "bloomin" onion size ... :) :)
I live in 6a and have been trying to get big onions for 7 years to no avail! I've tried it all and I would just be happy to grow baseball size. Do you buy your plants or grow them?
@@kansasgardener5844 For onions, the first year I used onions starts - and it was a complete fail. The last two years, I grew from seed and had better success. Last year, I grew mostly long-day onions and they did okay. They were still smaller than I wanted but flavor and shelf-life was really good. This year - going to focus more on day-neutral. I am hoping the day-neutral will be the balance between our long winters and getting enough of that best daylight time for proper bulbing.
@@ceecee-thetransplantedgardener Thank you for the info. I just ordered 2 varieties of long day seed today figured I would try seed this year.. When do you start your seed? Any tips? I have been starting seed indoors for years just never tried onions. I've been watching onion starting videos this weekend .
I harvested all my onions at the same time. Some had broken necks, others did not. What is the impact of harvesting the ones without broken necks?
Eat your onions and sulfur veggies (AND greens). They are the most healthy for you.
Sulfur containing amino acids contribute substantially to the maintenance and integrity of cellular systems by influencing cellular redox state and the cellular capacity for detoxifying toxic compounds, free radicals, and reactive oxygen species. It's important to know that sulfur is essential in restoring healthy body tissues and detoxifying heavy metals from the body. This helps to ensure that the liver is healthy and function efficiently. Sulfur is a known detoxicant of the liver and neutralizing heavy metals in the body.
The glutathione amino acid, works with sulfur, and is a strong antioxidant, and free radical scavenger. Glutathione works with oxidized Vitamin C and Vitamin E, removing the oxidation (redox), and recycling the water-based Vitamin C and oil-based Vitamin E in the body. Such Vitamin C can be found in the watery white fat cells, while Vitamin e can be found in the oily brown fat cells.
Sulfur containing amino acids contribute substantially to the maintenance and integrity of cellular systems by influencing cellular redox state and cellular capacity to detoxify toxic compounds, free radicals and reactive oxygen species. Methionine and cysteine are the two primary sulfur-containing amino acids in mammals. Methionine is an essential amino acid, obtained by dietary intake while cysteine is non-essential and a metabolite of methionine metabolism. Each of these amino acids contributes significantly to the cellular pool of organic sulfur and generally to sulfur homeostasis as well as playing a significant role in regulation of one carbon metabolism.
Sulfur is the third most abundant mineral in your body. Amino acids that include sulfur are methionine and cysteine. Methionine is an essential amino acid that cannot be synthesized by your body and must be consumed from protein-based sources.are present in your skin, hair, and nails where they help to make these tissues strong and flexible. Cysteine, on the other hand, is a non-essential amino acid and is synthesized by your body. You don't need to consume it directly, but you do need to consume sulfur in forms that can be used to produce this compound. You obtain the sulfur your body needs from animal and plant-based proteins as well as other types of compounds such as sulfinates, allicin, and sulfides. Sulfur is also present in thiamin (vitamin B-1) and biotin (vitamin H).
Your body needs sulfur to build and fix your DNA and protect your cells from damage that can lead to serious diseases such as cancers. Sulfur also assists your body to metabolize food and contributes to the health of your skin, tendons, and ligaments. Sulfur is also found in glucosamine sulfate, chondroitin sulfate, and methylsulfonylmethane, (MSM). Laboratory studies have found that MSM has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Sulphur, which is a major component of MSM, plays an important role in making collagen and glucosamine, both of which are vital for healthy bones and joints, and in the production of immunoglobulins, which help your immune system. These three supplements are frequently used to relieve joint pain and inflammation. Some natural health practitioners believe they may also improve the quality of skin, fingernails, and other tissues. Sulfur-containing foods have been shown to provide health benefits.
Allium vegetables are one of the main sources of dietary sulfur. These vegetables are rich in various forms of sulfur. These vegetables (- AND - their edible greens ...) are onions, garlic, leeks, scallions, shallots, and chives and are associated with benefits in cardiovascular health, bone health, blood sugar control, and detoxification.
Cruciferous Vegetables are another primary source of dietary sulfur - providing sulfur in a form known as glucosinolates. There are claims these vegetables help reduce the risk of cancer. The cruciferous vegetables (- AND - their edible greens ...) are broccoli, broccolini, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage, kale, collard, tree kale, tree collard, radish, and daikon radish. Leafy greens also supply needed sulfur with arugula, mustard, nasturtiums, land cress, and water cress.
Huge onions, now with topping onions, topping onions are only meant for the greenhouseonly not in the garden.
I loveonions and Garlic, I’m growing them now in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
A bit on the fence as to the larger onions. We have generally found that the large onions are not as juicy and oniony like the medium sized ones. Quite sure you will allow us to know as you do THEE Taste Onion Taste!
I hate growing onions. They’re tiny every time
This is my first year trying to grow onions and I failed miserably. 🥺
Also how do you get your onions to grow on top of the soil like that?
do huge onions have a different texture or taste? hubby can't eat onion, so I only grow a couple to dehydrate & powder for seasoning.
Kevin from epic gardening also had huge onions. He’s also in California. I think you guys had really good weather for large onions this year!
I want to see you eat the burger a slice of that is going on!!! 😂
Brian, I am so jealous of your beautiful onions. I live in Ontario Canada zone 5B and for the last 5 years I tried growing onions and it doesn't bulb up 😢. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I grow long day onions from seeds, sets and starts with no luck.
Hmmm. Well I never have luck with sets.. but not sure why you might be having trouble if seeds planted at the right time
WOW! Those are MONSTERS! Great harvest! Do I smell onion rings? 😋
Be careful leaving your onions in the sun after pulling them. I lost an entire bed of onions last year to onion maggot - so upsetting! Those that I had in another location were laid out for a few days in the sun, but omigosh!, they cooked! Seriously! When I went to check them they were warm and soft, like they had just come out of the oven! I live in Central California and should have known better. Lesson learned. I now pull my onions and lay them on racks in the shade in a breezy area until they have cured.
This year I had the best onion crop I've had in several years - I grew from seed, gave them nitrogen when they were transplanted, and plenty of water all along. Zone 9b, 37th parallel, but I grew short day varieties.
Always great videos, thanks Brian!
I am in northern Wisconsin. I grew about 100 yellow onions, 20 red onions, 20 white onions and 20 shallots this year. Some of them were starting to fall over so I was thinking maybe about 2 weeks until I would harvest them and then this last week we got golf ball size hail and 3 inches of rain in an hour. The whole garden was flattened including the onions. I pulled all the onions out. Some have enough stem to hang to dry , some don’t, so those are drying on a flat surface. My question is if they dry well will the shelf life be ok. I am cutting some up and dehydrating them as I watched this video because I’m worried they will rot sooner than normal🤷♀️
Golly, nature can sure wrangle with out gardening plans, sorry the hail messed your garden up. My son lives in Iowa and said similar happened to him. Im glad you could salvage your onion harvest. I’m currently dehydrating Roma tomatoes in CAlifornia. I know little about it but my new dehydrator seems to take way longer than setting halved tomatoes outside on a screen on a hot sunny day.
Thanks, our roof and siding on our house will need to be replaced also. The whole town took a hit. What can you do🤷♀️ just have to go on the best you can.
I have two comments. First one is my Vulcan side coming out… wouldn’t it be more logical to harvest the ones with broken necks first, and *then* break the neck on the rest, so you’d know which were which? Second comment is that I would rarely have use for such huge onions! I am happier with medium sized ones so I can use the whole thing in a recipe rather than having to put part of it back in the fridge. That said, it’s a pretty cool thing to see such big onions!
I must be part Vulcan too. I thought the same thing.
The ones that were already broken look drier and wilting so you can tell the difference
I fail the 3rd time with onions I think I will give up, they take too long and I only have few garden beds.
yours looks really nice ..congratulations :)
Wow, that's a blooming Onion! Okay, I'm sorry, I couldn't help thinking it would be great to eat it like that.
It would be
Nice onions!!! a few of mine got big like yours but I only planted a few Texas early Grano onions. This fall I’m going to plant a lot of them. Can you tell me did you start them all from seed or did you get some plant starts from a vendor?
In my area (I’m in Kansas zone 6a) I’ve found many people don’t plant their onion early enough. They think it’s too soon because it’s still cold. I plant mine between the middle to the end of March. Onions are tough, they can take it!
I'm in Manhattan and struggle growing them. Do you buy them or grow from seed then transplant? Maybe that's my problem maybe I haven't been starting them early enough. I buy the plants from nurseries so I can't put them in the ground until they receive their plants. Usually late April.
@@kansasgardener5844wayyyy too late. I live in southern Ohio and have finally started to get onion success with growing from seed last year. I started my seeds this month (January), and plan on putting the small plants out in mid-march.
I know the plants will be fine…there are wild onions growing in my gardens that I would love to eliminate.
@@melissaschloneger9902 I started some seed so I will see how it goes this season.
I'm longday zone 5b, I watched lazydogfarm videos and started mine from seed indoors in jan,then put them out good Friday. Put chicken manure and compost in then every 4to5 days hit them with water soluble fert. After about 3to4 weeks I put pure nitrogen down. Plus set them on drip one hour every morning and about every ten days supplement them with overhead water to work nitrogen in. Mine are huge likevyours I planted candy wall walla and sweet Spanish. Next year going with purple too.
I grew in zone 9 they were mostly small and the inside was mushy. Obviously I didn't do it right!
Sounds like too much water when in early stages of bulb, and rotted from moisture. Did you have a lot of rain during that time?
My Walla wallas were huge again like yours this year; however I also grew a storing onion, Patterson. I know I can’t compare to a sweet onion like the WW, but I expected more than a few 4 inch bulbs. Most were around the two inch mark. Can someone recommend a good storing onion, prefer yellow or white. Live in Oregon.
Some size onions
I always wanted to grow onions but never knew when to put them into the ground. Will my northeastern climate kill them when temps drop below freezing? Ouy i don't know.
But yeah this is something I do want to try.
I've tried to grow onions and haven't had luck. This year. I thought I was going to do well, but my dog jumped in the bed and dug holes everywhere 😔
Ja, Deutschland baut Zwiebeln an. Die Landwirtschaftssaison in Deutschland dauert von März bis Oktober und die Zwiebelernte erfolgt bis zum Herbst. Frühlingszwiebeln sind in Deutschland fast das ganze Jahr über erhältlich.
I grow onions here in central Florida, it’s mostly sandy soil so never need to spoon them.
I tried direct seeding in my raised beds twice and nothing came up.😢. I dont know if sets will work. Or starting them inside.
My biggest onions were about the size of that small out of you bunch the thing about onions is that they can last a year or more in a cool dry spot and this is why I only grow one batch each year. I am curious will you use all those onions or give some away I give most of my extra to our local food pantry?
Thanks for all your information.
Any advice on when to start onions in the Caribbean?
Fall
I am planning on growing onions in the future but I am a little hesitant because I live in the high desert.
I guess I see another science experiment in my future.
I am in Maine. I grow onions every year and love using them in my cooking. A friend grew Ailsa Craig onions last year, as big as your biggest one. She gave me one, and it was wonderful. I'm growing Ailsa Craig's this year, and we have had a ton of rain. I'm hoping, now that the sun is finally shining, they will take off and GROW!!
Oh hi fellow Mainer!!! 😊
Bought a bundle of baby onions (about 50 of them) last spring, planted them,... got nothing. Nothing at all.
Whatever you did sure worked great!
Thanks. I am currently growing onions. It is not as big as your.
You let them in the sun after harvesting? Stuttgart is what I'm growing.
I grew bulbing onions for the first time this past winter. I was very happy with the results. Yes I'm planning on growing again this year! - Rhonda
My onions get eaten cut white cutworms every year. Not sure how to fix soil?
Very impressive but i don't want onions that big. 😁
Grew Texas superstar from plants. Planted in end of March in CO. Most are big as my fist and still standing tall. I agree with the water. Keep them wet!
I’ve already harvested a couple onions, they’re so small but tasted good.
I used to grow onions and garlic near the Canadian border. I planted the garlic in the fall and onions in the spring. It's amazing how they be covered by snow in below freezing temperatures for months and come up in the spring. Last time I tried to grow onions and garlic in Grass Valley Ca. Directly in the soil and had gophers and voles eat every one out of six hundred. It was very disappointing. If I try again there I will have to grow in raise beds with hardware cloth on the bottom. One thing you didn't mention was to take off the scapes when they start to grow. I think that's important to do. If you let them flower doesn't all the energy go into the flowers? I'm not sure so I always removed them. Next time I want to grow more red onions and shallots. Good luck. Tell people they have to store them in mesh bags or open boxes in a cool dry place. They need the air to stay dry.
we cut up and vacuum seal and put in freezer to store them at least ones for cooking
What would you recommend for a long day onion variety?
My onions don't grow. I'm interested. I'm going to try again.
I had to harvest my crop early because the gophers honed in on them and were eating about one a day! I lost about 1/3 of my crop before giving the win to the those varmints but still managed to harvest about 40-50 medium sized onions.
Brian, I see you got your requisite tee(s) from Hawai’i..lol…we went there a couple years ago for the vacay of a lifetime. OMG, just the best! Hope your was great also.
My sweet and red onions were doing great until a bad hail storm bent their stems down. Left them for two weeks to see if they would make a come back but we had a bad spin up storm or damaging our neighborhod and flattened them again so I just went ahead and harvested them.
I planted bulbs in spring of last year thinking i would pull them in fall. They looked so tiny still so i left them until last month and they came out huge like yours. Because we got so much moisture i had to pull instead of letting them keep growing. But i ended up pleasantly surprised. I will plant more around September.
🌺Aloha Brian, love your onions. This year my onions and garlic were ruin by all our rain. Last year only one onion survived. I’m going to be doing my onions by seeds instead of those starts. I normally plant end of Oct or Nov. Unfortunately it’s our rainy season, so I was thinking like late spring. Is that a good idea?
Aloha! The rain only helped mine. I would suggest planting both times and see what works best. Missing Hawaii already!
I plan on growing onions this fall/winter. I’m in zone 9a
what does breaking the neck do for the plant?
It is also recommended to know days to bulbing of onion which should start at summer solstice. Count back and start onions in ground accordingly.
I have tried two years I a row but have not had any success yet.
Yes, sleeping/spooning with your onions would be strange indeed, but you never know about gardeners! So many uses for your onions! The size of your massive onions will be good for making a Bloomin Onion, freeze drying for onion powder, dehydrating for minced onions, canning caramelized onions, canning onion-maple-bacon jam and canning french onion soup. Though I do prefer the smaller onions for daily use. Bravo on your beautiful harvest!
I loved you spoon joke. It made me laugh.
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Those onions are super impressive, dude!
Right?!
Just watched your previous video about planting onions...
So, am I supposed to plant seeds or get starts?
I'm confused, thought if you planted seeds it took 2 years to get full size onion bulbs.
Nope seeds or seedlings in fall or early spring will produce the first season
I'm getting SUPER BIG onions this year, too. I'm in Bakersfield. I don't think rain is the factor because we missed most of it. I was thinking it was because I planted in the Fall this year - I usually put my starts out in February and get a range of sizes.
I think it's the weird extended cool temperature with mild nights that did it. Didn't really get very much in the way of frost. I think it's the time and temperature.
I plant Texas Super Sweets.
I really want to try onions again next season. I tried it once several years ago and they didn’t not thrive at all. Hoping to learn a few things
Did you weight the biggest onion? 🌸💚🙃
Great videos. You're a wealth of information. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
I can see some onion rings in your future 😂. I’ve never had much luck with growing them. I’m in the PNW. Great work Brian.
Those onions are as big as my head!
Wow, those onions are massive!!! This is first year growing onions, and they're not quite ready to harvest yet. I'm eagerly waiting!!
Wow❣️❣️❣️😍 Congratulations Brian❣️ That was an awesome harvest. 👏🏼
BEAUTIFUL ONIONS!!! WOWZA!! I planted onions many times over the years and failed with seeds but this year I planted bulb starts and am actually getting an onion harvest. Granted they are small, nothing as brilliant as yours, but already a bunch of them in my freezer.
LOVE your spooning comment/joke, never heard of spooning onions before. Great video as ALWAYS!!!!
I grew onions last year and had a great harvest. Those big ones are great baked on the bbq!
I grew red yellow and chalets. Red didn’t do well
Ohh, they make me hungry for a blooming onion!
Just harvested my onions over the last week. Not nearly as large, but, they are beautiful. Beautiful harvest.
?? Do you dry them with the neck down?
Those are some massive onions! I put some sets in with my tomato plants for pest protection. I have harvested most of them, but they are small. I was not expecting a big harvest, and the tomatoes have done well, not a horn worm in sight!
WOW!!! When is the onion ring party?! I'll bring the condiments! 🤣
I tried growing bulbing onions (Red Burgundy) from seed this year with disappointing results. I followed all the instructions for starting indoors and transplanting out. But about 3 months after transplanting, we got some storms with some pretty heavy rainfall which caused the onion tops to fall over. They never recovered; ended up turning brown and I had dig out some very small onions. Also, without a basement, I have trouble storing onions. Same problem with potatoes (yes, I know to not store them together - they're in separate rooms). They rot and/or sprout long before I can use them. I've become so discouraged, I probably won't grow onions or potatoes again.
Your onions, however, are truly impressive. Well done!
I have just come in from harvesting my onions !! Mine are much bigger this year too but I don’t know why? We had a wet winter so maybe that’s why! Great video thank you ☘️ ☘️☘️☘️
Could be!
Watering is so key with onions. When I started planting them right next to the drip emitters they did much better.
I don't buy onions for size but for flavor and sweetness. I am waiting for a gardener who grows veggies for flavors first.
Wala wala and candy rain are incredible flavors get pretty big but as good as Vidalia you still have time if started in March done by August long as you are in southern are or ct mine were ready in September and Oct. I left some over winter that were tiny and now they are like 3-5 onions in a bunch.
Where is the link?
What type of onion did you grow? What types of short day onions? Red onions?
Also..from seeds better than onion starts?