I followed your onion growing directions last year and it was the first time I had grocery store (and even bigger) sized onions. You definitely give great advice here!
Very informative video and you are a very good teacher. I love Vidalia onions do you live close to that farm? I lived in Valdosta when my daughter was going to college. I thought Warner robins was hot, I thought I was going to die in Valdosta. Good video 👍
Not just onions they are spreading bull jive but many other garden technics and practices. Thanks for staying real. The good ol southern way. You make gardening fun and profitable.
I grew onions from sets for years without success. 4 years ago I started growing from seed and now I'm hooked. I follow all 10 of your top 10 list and look forward to a bountiful harvest every year. I went crazy this year and will definitely have to give away onions to friends and family this year. I grow mine in a ground cover. Love your channel.
I heard the other day for the first time that it’s hard to grow big onions from sets because they consider that their second year and they want to put the effort into making seed instead of bulbs. Explained a lot lol
I'm thinking of working an area up sowing it in clover, then once it's up use drill plant onion plants after filling holes half full of composted manure.
Brooklyn's hat is adorable! A spaghetti raised bed would be fun to do in a long bed. A bed full of baby's breath would look great as a divider or pattern making bed. Actually, I had a friend that planted a block of smaller ones and put a different color of flower in each one to create a rainbow garden. (I feel a little silly giving you experts garden ideas!) 👒💐🌈🌞
Would LOVE the idea of raised bed gardening! A lot of people don't have the in ground space like you are blessed with, and do strictly raised bed, so they would learn a lot!
I liked and subscribed. I been backyard gardening over 60 years. Im 78 years old now and about 10 years ago, I started using raised beds and I wished I'd started sooner. As far as your fire ring, sweet potatoes would be great in there PLUS, you would have some beautiful foliage,
Go Titus! Those of us with yards have to grow in smaller spots and containers are what we have to limit ourselves to. I’m using 110 gallon troughs though, so it’s reasonable sized for you to mess with.
First of, thank y'all for the wealth of knowledge that y'all are sharing with the world. You mention that you prefer to plant your onions in November. My question is, duo you start your seeds in November or transplant the small plants in November? If you're transplanting them in November, when do you start your seeds? Thanks in advanced.
Love seeing raised garden beds, cheap ways to fill them and build soil, and how to improve production. As I get older, in-ground gardening is getting tougher.
Hey Travis. Great video with lots of good info on onion growing. I’ve never had a lot of luck growing onions because I followed some bad advice. Can’t wait to use your checklist and give them another shot. BIG fan of your raised bed idea and I think it makes a lot of sense. One option you may want to consider is to use fabric grow bags as your container. They are relatively inexpensive, come in a variety of sizes, easy to move, and make a great container for growing vegetables. Looking forward to Friday’s vid!!
Thank you for the 10 onion tips. I had an awful onion harvest this year. I'll be using all 10 tips. Please, as a man in his 60's with bad knees and back I would love to see more raised bed gardening ideas.
Been watching your videos for years and can say as a old Ky guy here you are without a doubt giving the best advice on gardening on the internet in my opinion.I have learned a lifetime of knowledge from your videos. Semper Fi
Hello 1st time here. My father used to say BULLJIVE.AN an he also new his bulljive on onions 🌰 everything u said is facts.blessing to u family and garden..I will subscribe..thanks..aaiiyyaa keepgoing..
Nice video Travis but I'm not going to lie the best part in the video is when Ti Ti walks in the camera shot with that big ass bone , I about spit my tea out laughing ❤😂
Definitely suggest doing the raised bed plot. I think a lot of people would benefit from it especially using multiple different sizes and materials to test longevity and pros and cons of each.
Look at them onions. They are massive. Great blessed harvest. I’ve started oregano indoors and never grows well, but the one I direct sow in a container, is coming back even after that crazy cold weather we had.
Thank you so much for this video.This is my first time growing onions, and I started them from seeds in November. I'm happy to find tips from someone who actually can show the onions they have grown. There is nothing worse than someone giving advice, and it's their first time growing something and can't show you the proof of what they're talking about. I definitely need to give nitrogen and water a little more frequently. Thanks again.
i like the idea of the raised beds. currently have 2 raised beds going. 6ft by3ft and 4ft by 3ft. currently have 6 tomato and 6 jalapenos and 6 collards green in the large bed. in the smaller bed i did have pole beans which i harvested about 3lbs of bean out of. the small bed may be an onion bed this fall or a corn field. plus thinking bout a 3 raised bed. in zone 9b in florida here.
Sage does well in the ground but not with drip irrigation. It does well in tough conditions giving a strong tasting leaf. Except for tender herbs, generally they do not like rich, moisture retentive soil. For what it's worth, that's my experience. Enjoying and learning a lot, thanks.
Raised beds are great for older gardeners, like me, since we don’t have to bend so far to garden. I have a small in ground garden this year for okra, corn, pole beans and cukes, but most of my crops are in raised beds or containers.
I like gardening but as I have aged, last four summers I have had health issues that have made traditional in ground gardening infeasible. Last year we tried gardening in pots/ very small raised beds. Even with my unplanned health set back, we had the most successful garden in four years. Gardening in pots was very rewarding and fruitful. I would love to hear and learn more from your experiences. As a matter of fact, we are trying tumeric from learning from watching your videos on growing in raised beds. I didn’t even know we could grow tumeric!
I love the idea of a raised bed garden. I have very little in-ground usage in my garden - it’s mostly raised beds. It would be fun to get your take on how best to grow in raised bed - especially with respect to plant spacing and fertilization. This was a fun video, especially since I will be getting my onions in November and need to get beds ready for them. I HOPE I can grow onions that big!
That's the biggest red onions I've seen! You are definitely the onion growing expert. I'll follow your instructions before anyone on TH-cam. Travis I have a couple of the metal raised beds and I did the huglecilture method for filling it. Cardboard on the very bottom, then a layer of tree limbs and a thick layer of leaves. Only the top 12 inches of both beds are soil. They have sunk a couple inches but I'll add some soil after I harvest the beans and potatoes.
I 100% appreciated the top 10 list you provided. This is a great highlight in this video. Would love to see more of this style through out other items in the garden. Great Job!
I would like to see you do some videos on planting in raised beds. I hope you can get a company to sponsor. I grow half my garden in raised beds. I have my onions in one of them now. Keep up the good work, Travis. Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you for sharing your garden with me. I just love how it’s all coming together and growing so nicely! I love to garden and also make garden videos. I have so much to still learn about gardening. I’d love it if we could learn more from each other! Happy Growing! 🌷🌼🌻🌺🌸🌹🐝
Thanks Travis, I heard that tip about cutting the tops and did it. I am going to harvest soon. I am not optimistic . It’s my first year, so I don’t mind. It’s all learning. Thank you.
As soon as I seen your picture of those red onions... I was buying them!! You have really made me a better gardener , I monkey see monkey do when it comes to your planting time and tips. I live near Orange beach , AL and gargen in raised beds . And buying metal is cheaper than wood , I made all my raised beds over the winter when all the garden beds were on clearance. Again thank you so much for what you do
Will be my first time trying to grow from seeds. Great video and saw an earlier video of yours today too on onions. Up here in Northern Michigan growing inground beds. Weeds are a pain, bought a stirrup hoe for the first seedling weeds.. also going to try no-till no dig. Tiller is staying out tho... thanks Travis!
Hi Travis, up here in SWMO I live on a hill top with nothing but rock on the under side. So all my gardening is done in them big mineral tubs and I love it, I can sit in my little chair and do all my planting and pick in comfort. When you get older like I am you got to cheat all you can lol.
I am ALL ABOUT raised beds. It is so much easier for me to manage and water. Way easier on my back. I bought a lot of those fire rings 2 years ago...I think I have 9 or 10 out there, and they were only $30 at the time. Ive even planted onions in them. I would love to see videos on raised beds and management on them. Ive also got a couple of the metal raised beds, but havent gotten them put together yet. I need to git on it!
I also used water soluble sulfur mixed in a watering can. I would give the onions a good drink and they seem to really do good and taste out of this world great.
Cheap "raised bed", so long as you don't expect it to last forever: Get some 4x2 welded wire, about 30" tall, cut a length of it 13' long, and wire the ends together. This will give you a ring roughtly 4' in diameter. Use a decent quality landscape fabric to line the interior--a 4' wide strip will give some overlap on the outside. Fill part way with some sort of fill material, the rest with your soil mix. Eventually the UV will break down the landscape fabric, but it should last at least a couple of years before you need to redo the bed.
Love your videos, I've been gardening since I was a child and my Daddy had a garden (I am in my seventies) and I am always learning something new from you. Thank you. Oh, I am ordering the Chianti onions to plant in November. I live in North East part of Georgia and this will be the first time I have planted onions in the fall. I usually plant Texas yellow granx but I want to plant a different yellow onion, do you have a suggestion?
I grow mostly raised beds n pots so it would interest me. Up here in zone 3 frost free dates are early June until late September. Raised beds n pots the soil warms much earlier getting me up n growing sooner. 👍👍
This was great, thank you! I’m growing my first bed of onions, nothing major, just a couple dozen since I’m learning. One thing I can’t seem to find out is how often to fertilize with the balanced fertilizer at the beginning? and then how often with the Nitro when you switch?? I appreciate your help!
We do a balanced granular fertilizer at planting, then give them AgroThrive (liquid balanced) a few weeks after planting. After that, it's just nitrogen -- usually 2-3x throughout the growout -- about a month or so apart.
Thanks Travis. I saw a lot of comments on the boiled peanuts. Especially the sharp geographical contrast for experience /awareness. Fascinating. It is obvious that everyone, including me, are waiting for the ultimate detailed boiled peanut recipe in the future! Ha! Good job, Sir. Chuck in Jensen Beach.
Raised beds are great for no till gardening. I plant tomatoes down the center with garlic or onions/shallots down on either side. I plant corn in my raised beds too. I have sandy soil, they have excellent drainage. My husband built them using trex plastic decking. They are 6 years old and still look brand new. 4x12 foot beds. In-between the beds I have containers that I found for free from a landscaping company. 1 to 10 gallons containers, I use them for my leftover potatoes and onion plants. I fill the containers with my compost I made from cardboard, kitchen scrapes, and chicken manure. 🐔 chickens rock on a homestead
Seems like I remember you off of HOSS.. I wondered why you were no longer on there. Now it’s boring. I like how you show what you’re doing in the garden it gives more of a visual. Glad I come across your new channel. 😁
Those red onions (Chianti and Red Rock) are beautiful!. Thanks for sharing the results of your experiments. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/18/2022.
I have 2 raised beds in my garden. 1 for strawberries & the other for asparagus & carrots. Can’t grow carrots in my garden cause the soil is too hard. I also have some perennial herbs in them. Think it is a great idea for u to start some more raised beds👍
Hey Travis, loved your onion growing tips. This year I started my onions from seeds (intermediate day) and transplanted in raised metal beds. I did the same with my hard neck garlic bulbs last fall and everything is looking great. I followed Brooklyn's idea of adding "filler" materials (mulched leaves, etc.) to the bottom of my beds to reduce the amount of potting soil required. Another benefit from growing in raised beds is they won't get too much water when Mother Nature leaves the water on too long :-).
We lived near onion fields in S CA they would knock down the stems and let them dry off for a couple of weeks before putting them up. We could smell onions miles away.
Great onion harvest...maybe you can help me with an approach on my biggest garden problem. I grow 1000 onion, leek and shallot transplants and replant 180 garlic cloves each year. The garlic does great but everything else gets destroyed by the onion fly larvae. They grow great until mid May when the fly lays the eggs and the larvae attack the roots and end up killing every one. I have used DE and triple threat beneficial nematodes and even started five kiddie pools with new soil on the opposite end of my property but the fly found them. I have read everything I can find and advise ranges from DE, nematodes, removing the soil and solarizing the soil. Any advise? I am ready to give up on alliums except for garlic.
Never dealt with onion fly larvae. We've been using a product called Azera that's a very broad-spectrum, organic insecticide. I bet it would take care of them.
Tip 4 is definitely valuable. I tried planting onions last year based on when another TH-camr planted theirs. What I didn’t realize was they were in a complete different growing part of the USA. While I was watching this I got to thinking how about a video on all your favorite varieties of what you plant as far as production, taste, storage
We did a couple of those last year towards the end of the year. We'll try and do that again at the end of the season with a recap on our favorite varieties that we've grown.
I would love ❤️ to see you use some raised flower beds. I have had a major back injury and would like to see an option for not bending. A 🪴 garden to focus on not bending. 🌱
I harvest onion tops separately and freeze for soup base and crock pot flavor instead of letting them get brown. It also stops the onion from bolting and I leave mine in the ground 2 years or we only get tiny onions here. I only have a small area for onions this year I am going to grow more tomatoes.
I totally agree with your 10 tips on growing onions 💯.. my red onions are doing exactly the same as yours, still growing and the biggest i ever grown, pulling them up Friday. Raised bed experiment would be nice!!! ✌🏻
hello, I love your onions! I live in intermediate day lenght so I'm a little different haha! but I would love it if you could cut open one of those or 2 of those onions and either taste or cook them for flavor? thanks!
Appreciate the tips-husband’s grandpa basically stomped the tops down saying it made the bulbs grow more. Made me cringe and now I have you backing me up on not doing it.
I followed your onion growing directions last year and it was the first time I had grocery store (and even bigger) sized onions. You definitely give great advice here!
Same for me too. People kept saying it was a bad year for onions in FL. Meanwhile, I was having the best year yet. 😂
Very informative video and you are a very good teacher. I love Vidalia onions do you live close to that farm? I lived in Valdosta when my daughter was going to college. I thought Warner robins was hot, I thought I was going to die in Valdosta. Good video 👍
Just having the lil man involved deserves a like 👍🏾.. train em young
Not just onions they are spreading bull jive but many other garden technics and practices. Thanks for staying real. The good ol southern way. You make gardening fun and profitable.
I grew onions from sets for years without success. 4 years ago I started growing from seed and now I'm hooked. I follow all 10 of your top 10 list and look forward to a bountiful harvest every year. I went crazy this year and will definitely have to give away onions to friends and family this year. I grow mine in a ground cover. Love your channel.
I heard the other day for the first time that it’s hard to grow big onions from sets because they consider that their second year and they want to put the effort into making seed instead of bulbs. Explained a lot lol
Seeds are definitely the way to go!
I'm thinking of working an area up sowing it in clover, then once it's up use drill plant onion plants after filling holes half full of composted manure.
The clover helps feed the heavy feeder onions!!
What about mulching for weed control?
That's an impressive onion harvest..! Well played, sir.
Thanks Corey!
Brooklyn's hat is adorable! A spaghetti raised bed would be fun to do in a long bed. A bed full of baby's breath would look great as a divider or pattern making bed. Actually, I had a friend that planted a block of smaller ones and put a different color of flower in each one to create a rainbow garden. (I feel a little silly giving you experts garden ideas!) 👒💐🌈🌞
We always appreciate any suggestions. Thanks Laura!
Would LOVE the idea of raised bed gardening! A lot of people don't have the in ground space like you are blessed with, and do strictly raised bed, so they would learn a lot!
I liked and subscribed. I been backyard gardening over 60 years. Im 78 years old now and about 10 years ago, I started using raised beds and I wished I'd started sooner. As far as your fire ring, sweet potatoes would be great in there PLUS, you would have some beautiful foliage,
Go Titus! Those of us with yards have to grow in smaller spots and containers are what we have to limit ourselves to. I’m using 110 gallon troughs though, so it’s reasonable sized for you to mess with.
I didn't know red onions could get that big! Thanks!
First of, thank y'all for the wealth of knowledge that y'all are sharing with the world. You mention that you prefer to plant your onions in November. My question is, duo you start your seeds in November or transplant the small plants in November? If you're transplanting them in November, when do you start your seeds? Thanks in advanced.
We start our seeds in the greenhouse in mid-September and then transplant in November.
Love seeing raised garden beds, cheap ways to fill them and build soil, and how to improve production. As I get older, in-ground gardening is getting tougher.
I’d love to see y’all do a raised bed garden. You can get so much more creative with raised beds. I have 20 and love them!
Should be fun!
Hey Travis. Great video with lots of good info on onion growing. I’ve never had a lot of luck growing onions because I followed some bad advice. Can’t wait to use your checklist and give them another shot. BIG fan of your raised bed idea and I think it makes a lot of sense. One option you may want to consider is to use fabric grow bags as your container. They are relatively inexpensive, come in a variety of sizes, easy to move, and make a great container for growing vegetables. Looking forward to Friday’s vid!!
Thanks Tim!
I'm gardening strictly in fabric bags they work great!!😅
Yes, yes, yes to the raised beds!
The benefit of your dog rolling in an herb is that it helps keep them smelling nice. 😊
Basil is good for pesto?
Thank you for the 10 onion tips. I had an awful onion harvest this year. I'll be using all 10 tips. Please, as a man in his 60's with bad knees and back I would love to see more raised bed gardening ideas.
Been watching your videos for years and can say as a old Ky guy here you are without a doubt giving the best advice on gardening on the internet in my opinion.I have learned a lifetime of knowledge from your videos. Semper Fi
We appreciate it Kevin! And thanks for your service!
Hello 1st time here. My father used to say BULLJIVE.AN an he also new his bulljive on onions 🌰 everything u said is facts.blessing to u family and garden..I will subscribe..thanks..aaiiyyaa keepgoing..
I always plant too many! Love sharing with family and friends!
If it’s Vego Garden who wants to do the sponsorship, I’d jump on it. They’re nice. 👍🏻
They are nice!
Nice video Travis but I'm not going to lie the best part in the video is when Ti Ti walks in the camera shot with that big ass bone , I about spit my tea out laughing ❤😂
Haha. You never know what he is going to do.
Definitely suggest doing the raised bed plot. I think a lot of people would benefit from it especially using multiple different sizes and materials to test longevity and pros and cons of each.
If we do it, we'll probably have all the same type of material, but just different shapes and sizes.
That kid is ADORABLE!! THANKS for the onion tips. VERY helpful. I subscribed immediately.
Thanks for subbing!
Look at them onions. They are massive. Great blessed harvest. I’ve started oregano indoors and never grows well, but the one I direct sow in a container, is coming back even after that crazy cold weather we had.
Great info regarding planting onions. Love to see raised bed video. So good to see Titus and Mrs. Titus steels the show.
Thanks Karen!
Thank you so much,you are only 1.5 hours from me so I go by when you plant Hazlehurst Georgia 🌱
Thank you so much for this video.This is my first time growing onions, and I started them from seeds in November. I'm happy to find tips from someone who actually can show the onions they have grown. There is nothing worse than someone giving advice, and it's their first time growing something and can't show you the proof of what they're talking about. I definitely need to give nitrogen and water a little more frequently. Thanks again.
Would love to see your raised beds in your dream garden plots!! Lots of fun trying different methods!! Hope it works for you all!!
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Love your videos direct. precise, and to the point! Good Job Great family you have also!
Thanks Tonya!
Love this farmer ! Thank u for sharing all u know ❤🇨🇦
i like the idea of the raised beds. currently have 2 raised beds going. 6ft by3ft and 4ft by 3ft. currently have 6 tomato and 6 jalapenos and 6 collards green in the large bed. in the smaller bed i did have pole beans which i harvested about 3lbs of bean out of. the small bed may be an onion bed this fall or a corn field. plus thinking bout a 3 raised bed. in zone 9b in florida here.
Sage does well in the ground but not with drip irrigation. It does well in tough conditions giving a strong tasting leaf. Except for tender herbs, generally they do not like rich, moisture retentive soil. For what it's worth, that's my experience. Enjoying and learning a lot, thanks.
Raised beds are great for older gardeners, like me, since we don’t have to bend so far to garden. I have a small in ground garden this year for okra, corn, pole beans and cukes, but most of my crops are in raised beds or containers.
I might actually start growing bush beans again if I had a long raised bed. lol
I thought this was about pumpkins again but lord, them are some huge onions!! Great job!! And good advice!!👍👍💪💪👍👍
I like gardening but as I have aged, last four summers I have had health issues that have made traditional in ground gardening infeasible.
Last year we tried gardening in pots/ very small raised beds. Even with my unplanned health set back, we had the most successful garden in four years. Gardening in pots was very rewarding and fruitful.
I would love to hear and learn more from your experiences.
As a matter of fact, we are trying tumeric from learning from watching your videos on growing in raised beds. I didn’t even know we could grow tumeric!
Hope the turmeric does well for you, and good to hear that you're still able to play in the garden!
I value all of you onion tips ! Thank you! This is my first year growing them from seed am excited to see how it goes !!!
I like your raised beds idea. It sounds like a fun adventure! 👍🏻
I think so too!
I love the idea of a raised bed garden. I have very little in-ground usage in my garden - it’s mostly raised beds. It would be fun to get your take on how best to grow in raised bed - especially with respect to plant spacing and fertilization. This was a fun video, especially since I will be getting my onions in November and need to get beds ready for them. I HOPE I can grow onions that big!
That's the biggest red onions I've seen! You are definitely the onion growing expert. I'll follow your instructions before anyone on TH-cam.
Travis I have a couple of the metal raised beds and I did the huglecilture method for filling it. Cardboard on the very bottom, then a layer of tree limbs and a thick layer of leaves. Only the top 12 inches of both beds are soil. They have sunk a couple inches but I'll add some soil after I harvest the beans and potatoes.
We are planning on doing the same method soon! I love how all of that bed filler naturally composts and builds the soil over the years.
Good idea Mary!
I 100% appreciated the top 10 list you provided. This is a great highlight in this video. Would love to see more of this style through out other items in the garden. Great Job!
Thanks!
You are a great teacher! Thank you for this good information!
You are so welcome!
I would like to see you do some videos on planting in raised beds. I hope you can get a company to sponsor. I grow half my garden in raised beds. I have my onions in one of them now. Keep up the good work, Travis. Thank you for your hard work.
Thanks for joining us!
You Should do the raise bed sponsorship im sure you have a huge amount of gardeners me being one of them that would enjoy your take on it!
Yes! You better do those raised beds!. I like the vego beds. I could see you doing those.
Thank you for sharing your garden with me. I just love how it’s all coming together and growing so nicely! I love to garden and also make garden videos. I have so much to still learn about gardening. I’d love it if we could learn more from each other! Happy Growing! 🌷🌼🌻🌺🌸🌹🐝
You are so welcome!
Thanks Travis, I heard that tip about cutting the tops and did it. I am going to harvest soon. I am not optimistic . It’s my first year, so I don’t mind. It’s all learning. Thank you.
Raised beds would be a great thing to see you tackle. It would help those of us with smaller gardens . Thanks so much love your content
Noted!
I am so glad I found you again!
Glad you found us too Robin!
Yes do the raised beds, it’s nice seeing others ideas. Good video thanks!
As soon as I seen your picture of those red onions... I was buying them!! You have really made me a better gardener , I monkey see monkey do when it comes to your planting time and tips. I live near Orange beach , AL and gargen in raised beds . And buying metal is cheaper than wood , I made all my raised beds over the winter when all the garden beds were on clearance. Again thank you so much for what you do
Hope the Chianti onions do as well for you as they did for us!
@@LazyDogFarm I think they will. I got massive onions with the Dixondale onions with your pointers.. I can only imagine these
Will be my first time trying to grow from seeds. Great video and saw an earlier video of yours today too on onions. Up here in Northern Michigan growing inground beds. Weeds are a pain, bought a stirrup hoe for the first seedling weeds.. also going to try no-till no dig. Tiller is staying out tho... thanks Travis!
That sweat tear was right on queue when talking about loosing the baby onions.Lol
Hi Travis, up here in SWMO I live on a hill top with nothing but rock on the under side. So all my gardening is done in them big mineral tubs and I love it, I can sit in my little chair and do all my planting and pick in comfort. When you get older like I am you got to cheat all you can lol.
Thank ya Travis. I have my onions in a raised bed. I companioned planted with bell pepper. So far so good!
Dude.....I just tried your pickled red onion recipe on your website and it's got me licking my ears like a crackhead....thanks
Glad you like it!
YES!!!! for the raised bed info! That’s mainly what I have. Taking all the onion notes for next year. THANKS
I am ALL ABOUT raised beds. It is so much easier for me to manage and water. Way easier on my back. I bought a lot of those fire rings 2 years ago...I think I have 9 or 10 out there, and they were only $30 at the time. Ive even planted onions in them. I would love to see videos on raised beds and management on them. Ive also got a couple of the metal raised beds, but havent gotten them put together yet. I need to git on it!
Your garden is beautiful
Thanks Kathy!
Thanks for the onion growing tips, I've been trying to figure out what I did wrong. I'm looking forward to growing from seed with you later this year!
Should be fun!
really nice video , Tye is a hoot . Y'all take care
I also used water soluble sulfur mixed in a watering can. I would give the onions a good drink and they seem to really do good and taste out of this world great.
Cheap "raised bed", so long as you don't expect it to last forever: Get some 4x2 welded wire, about 30" tall, cut a length of it 13' long, and wire the ends together. This will give you a ring roughtly 4' in diameter. Use a decent quality landscape fabric to line the interior--a 4' wide strip will give some overlap on the outside. Fill part way with some sort of fill material, the rest with your soil mix. Eventually the UV will break down the landscape fabric, but it should last at least a couple of years before you need to redo the bed.
Yes do the raised bed gardens! I'd love to see that! We also use a lot of grow bags!
Thanks Travis, saving this video, and sharing of course. Really good one.
I have did just what you have said and those babys are growing. Thanks ,
my brother is going to be sad when he see mine.
Love your videos, I've been gardening since I was a child and my Daddy had a garden (I am in my seventies) and I am always learning something new from you. Thank you. Oh, I am ordering the Chianti onions to plant in November. I live in North East part of Georgia and this will be the first time I have planted onions in the fall. I usually plant Texas yellow granx but I want to plant a different yellow onion, do you have a suggestion?
I grow mostly raised beds n pots so it would interest me. Up here in zone 3 frost free dates are early June until late September. Raised beds n pots the soil warms much earlier getting me up n growing sooner. 👍👍
Makes sense. Even that few feet of height makes a huge difference on soil warmth.
At my age, 72, raised beds are the only way I can garden. Would love having raised beds included in your growing cycles.
Thanks for the onion information. We have a longer growing season so still have onions in the ground. Enjoying your channel so much!🌺
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing this information. I am going to follow these instructions and see if I can be successful. Thanks again.
Would love to see content on raised beds!!
This was great, thank you! I’m growing my first bed of onions, nothing major, just a couple dozen since I’m learning. One thing I can’t seem to find out is how often to fertilize with the balanced fertilizer at the beginning? and then how often with the Nitro when you switch?? I appreciate your help!
We do a balanced granular fertilizer at planting, then give them AgroThrive (liquid balanced) a few weeks after planting. After that, it's just nitrogen -- usually 2-3x throughout the growout -- about a month or so apart.
Thanks Travis. I saw a lot of comments on the boiled peanuts. Especially the sharp geographical contrast for experience /awareness. Fascinating. It is obvious that everyone, including me, are waiting for the ultimate detailed boiled peanut recipe in the future! Ha! Good job, Sir. Chuck in Jensen Beach.
If we're able to grow some, we'll definitely show how we prepare them.
Great video. Awesome onions. I would love to see you garden in raised beds since I garden in raised beds and containers only.
Thanks Janice!
Thank God! I have been struggling
Raised beds are great for no till gardening. I plant tomatoes down the center with garlic or onions/shallots down on either side. I plant corn in my raised beds too. I have sandy soil, they have excellent drainage. My husband built them using trex plastic decking. They are 6 years old and still look brand new. 4x12 foot beds. In-between the beds I have containers that I found for free from a landscaping company. 1 to 10 gallons containers, I use them for my leftover potatoes and onion plants. I fill the containers with my compost I made from cardboard, kitchen scrapes, and chicken manure. 🐔 chickens rock on a homestead
Seems like I remember you off of HOSS.. I wondered why you were no longer on there. Now it’s boring. I like how you show what you’re doing in the garden it gives more of a visual. Glad I come across your new channel. 😁
Welcome Shannon! Glad you found us!
Those red onions (Chianti and Red Rock) are beautiful!. Thanks for sharing the results of your experiments. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/18/2022.
Always good to see you here Kate!
Amazing….great job fam
I have 2 raised beds in my garden. 1 for strawberries & the other for asparagus & carrots. Can’t grow carrots in my garden cause the soil is too hard. I also have some perennial herbs in them. Think it is a great idea for u to start some more raised beds👍
Hey Travis, loved your onion growing tips. This year I started my onions from seeds (intermediate day) and transplanted in raised metal beds. I did the same with my hard neck garlic bulbs last fall and everything is looking great. I followed Brooklyn's idea of adding "filler" materials (mulched leaves, etc.) to the bottom of my beds to reduce the amount of potting soil required. Another benefit from growing in raised beds is they won't get too much water when Mother Nature leaves the water on too long :-).
Very true about the drainage.
We lived near onion fields in S CA they would knock down the stems and let them dry off for a couple of weeks before putting them up. We could smell onions miles away.
Great onion harvest...maybe you can help me with an approach on my biggest garden problem. I grow 1000 onion, leek and shallot transplants and replant 180 garlic cloves each year. The garlic does great but everything else gets destroyed by the onion fly larvae. They grow great until mid May when the fly lays the eggs and the larvae attack the roots and end up killing every one. I have used DE and triple threat beneficial nematodes and even started five kiddie pools with new soil on the opposite end of my property but the fly found them. I have read everything I can find and advise ranges from DE, nematodes, removing the soil and solarizing the soil. Any advise? I am ready to give up on alliums except for garlic.
Never dealt with onion fly larvae. We've been using a product called Azera that's a very broad-spectrum, organic insecticide. I bet it would take care of them.
Tip 4 is definitely valuable. I tried planting onions last year based on when another TH-camr planted theirs. What I didn’t realize was they were in a complete different growing part of the USA. While I was watching this I got to thinking how about a video on all your favorite varieties of what you plant as far as production, taste, storage
We did a couple of those last year towards the end of the year. We'll try and do that again at the end of the season with a recap on our favorite varieties that we've grown.
@@LazyDogFarm your right I forgot
I would love ❤️ to see you use some raised flower beds. I have had a major back injury and would like to see an option for not bending. A 🪴 garden to focus on not bending. 🌱
Thanks for your input. I'll see what we can put together.
Great 😊
I harvest onion tops separately and freeze for soup base and crock pot flavor instead of letting them get brown. It also stops the onion from bolting and I leave mine in the ground 2 years or we only get tiny onions here. I only have a small area for onions this year I am going to grow more tomatoes.
I totally agree with your 10 tips on growing onions 💯.. my red onions are doing exactly the same as yours, still growing and the biggest i ever grown, pulling them up Friday. Raised bed experiment would be nice!!! ✌🏻
Great to hear about your onions!
Lovely! May I ask what type of soil you use for your onion field?
We have pretty sandy soil down here, but we've added lots of compost over the years.
Those things are amazing. Tie them to the end of a stick and you got yourself a legit weapon. lmao.
I know right?!
hello, I love your onions! I live in intermediate day lenght so I'm a little different haha!
but I would love it if you could cut open one of those or 2 of those onions and either taste or cook them for flavor? thanks!
Thank you 🥰🥰🥰
Very nice video. Guao. Those are reallly nice and big onion bulbs. Amazing. Congratulations and thank you for sharing your knowledge Sir.
Thanks Jose!
Thanks for the great tips ! Can’t wait for November!
By the way you have upped my onion game a huge amount! Thanks!
Great to hear!
Thank you from Virginia. Loved the video and totally agree with this good information in a sea of bad information. Nice harvest to.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Appreciate the tips-husband’s grandpa basically stomped the tops down saying it made the bulbs grow more. Made me cringe and now I have you backing me up on not doing it.
Yeah definitely don't do that.
Yes, I would love to see you plant out some raised beds.
Im always taking green tops to.cook with