I TESTED Spooning vs. Not Spooning my Onions - here are the results!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Does Spooning your onions help them grow bigger? It's a garden hack that I had read about online, and was curious to try out! The hypothesis is that by removing some of the soil around the bulb of the onion, it allows it to grow out even more easily. To put this to the test, I spooned one set of onions and let the other set grow without any spooning. Dive into the video to see how big of a difference it made!
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That's really interesting! I planted mine way too deep this year. Heard about spooning late, and the few I tried it on were the only ones that bulbed. 🙈 The other ones became long, thin and slim like pencils. Next year I'm putting them shallow. 🙈
this is honestly the best trending thing on youtube though. please keep up the experiments, sir. people would rather see proof and scientific evidence rather than unsubstantiated opinions.
I have a small patio, so I love your tests. It really helps me grow more in my limited space.
I grow potatoes in 3 plastic stackable crates. Cut the bottom outa 2 of the crates and the bottom off 2 black plastic bags, with lots of small puncture holes in the bottom of the 3rd bag.
Stack em' with the holed bag and crate with the base on top to start. As they grow I top up the soil till I need to put the top crate in the middle and line the bottomless crate now on top with a bottomless bag. Top up with soil or tape the bag in place till the potatoes grow more. Continue until all three crates are full of soil, then harvest when ready for 'balcony bounty!'
Hope this helps...
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These experiments are very informative and useful. Keep it up!
Love that spacing tile. It looks like more of the spooned onions made it to maturity.
Hi guys… not a plant person just making sure this guy aint doin freaky stuff to his onions… okay bye 👋
I'm going to be laughing for the rest of the day after that comment
I had my concerns too 😅
Lol glad you’re doing random welfare checks.
Go grow some onions now ;)
Nice difference. Maybe with the shallow planting experiment the results will be different. Waiting eagerly!
Btw, just one quick thing that I've noticed in some of your past videos: I ussually use headphones to listen to them, and sometimes while you're in front of the camera (and, I assume, microphone) the audio comes stronger from one side than from the other. It's not a really big problem, but sometimes it does bug me a bit.
Thank you for conducting these experiments. I find them very interesting.
Do more please mate I enjoy seeing things I don’t know or heard of
Awesome teaching ❤😊
These are exciting to watch and I think I might do them even knowing the results for my son to have fun finding out what’s going to happen will make gardening a game for him!!!
LOVE your gardening experiments as they are always so informative re planting and growth as well
I enjoyed the experiment and would love more of these type videos.
Yes please, more garden experiments. Love watching this type of video. Besides, it saves me doing it.
I thought that was a really good experiment! I would appreciate seeing more!
love your experiments, hope u make some videos about flowering plants in future
This was great! Looking back, I think I planted mine too deep this year. This is the first year I've had any kind of success
with onions (you know how everyone seems to have that plant they're cursed to not grow well? Onions were mine) but my bulbs were not as big as I'd have liked. I'll have to plant more shallow next year! The garlic did REALLY well for me this year, so at least I have that.
I love your videos and I feel like I'm learning valuable information 👍
I enjoy seeing your experiments!
I’ve never grown onions. But I want to real bad. I’m gonna take your advice about how to grow.
I really enjoy your videos. I often find that the onions in the centre of a bed get less light due to shading from their companions, but they may also benefit from more moisture in the centre of the bed. So switching around your spooning/no spooning sides would be an important variable for next time. Also, I have been multi-sowing onions -- ie. more than one onion per planting hole -- takes much less space and makes a huge difference (I think) to my overall harvest. I'd love to see an experiment on that, as well. Happy gardening!
Great Video. Thanks. Garden Like a Viking has a board method for onions that looks like I'll adopt next spring.
Fantastic channel. Excellent information. Thank you.
I find these trials very interesting. Thanks!
Holy cow! Those are huge!
Love your experiments ❤
Love your experiments
Thank you, brother, thank you.
Loved it ty for the video. Where can we get one of those spacing boards?
Thanks so much! You can grab one of the Spacing Tiles right here: www.mindandsoil.com/collections/tools/products/spacing-tile
Your soil is so light and fluffy so spooning really won’t make a significant difference in letting the onion push out to form a larger bulb. If the soil was more dense or had a heavier clay component, spooning would be beneficial in helping the layers push out through the heavy soil.
Love watching your experiments. Thank you 😊 for sharing
What happened to the rest of the bed? I counted 105 onion place holders in the bed of onions at the start. If there was only 18 onions per side then only 36 onions were weighed.
Yes. 😊 Yes experiments are interesting and informative
I can't help but think that spooning would be most beneficial if one has heavy clay soil as opposed to sandy or loamy soil. In one of my gardens I have red and pebbly soil ( I call it dirt!! ) lol. I spooned and I can honestly say I think it helped a lot.
I love onions so this video was awesome!
Love your info, thanks
really nice experiment. I am interested in seeing the "depth" experiment. Have you tried growing other varieties? I grow more red than white, so curious to see that as well.
you should test perlite versus sand versus vermiculite versus horticultural grit versus nothing to see which plant gets the best growth and robustness
I was just going to suggest changing the direction of your sowing but now that makes sense.
I wonder if perlite around the bulb would do just as good without the labor of spooning.
Love your channel. Could you talk to us about Elephant garlic?
Would probably have more impact if it was hard soil vs soft potting mix.
These 'test' videos of yours often omit what could be interesting details and opinions - like in this case, how long did the spooning take? Was it like 1 hour to do the whole bed, x3 times? Or did it take longer, or less? That's important for judging whether it's worth bothering with (even if only just doing it once).
Does planting shallow also apply to spring onions?
Would be interested to see if there is a flavor difference. 😃 Although that's pretty subjective.
Awesome
Grow something in a pot with a handful of used cigarette butts against no butts. Its thought the nicotinic acid has a beneficial effect epsecially on tomatoes and that family but all plants really.
For those who don't want to spend the money on seedlings, you could start them in milk jugs and pay even less than that for 3x as many in one packet.
The thumbnail made me think spooning was something you did with the spoon like pressing on the onion.
Can’t call either way😊
I'd like to see one with 10 seeds per planting and start the first planting on the new moon, plant the next 10 the next day and continue 10/day through the entire lunar cycle.
I’m curious to your location. I’m in eastern Tennessee , can we grow walla walla onions?
Walla walla's are a long-day onion, which is better for Northern growers (draw a line lengthwise through the top 1/4 of VA all the way across the country to CA. Anything below that will be short-day varieties, anything above is long-day). So they may not so as well in TN.
You need to mix down your stereo audio into mono. This isn't the first video I've tried to watch where your vocal track is coming out of my right speaker. Since you're using a lavaliere mic I wouldn't even place it, or record it into a stereo track anyway.
Where do you live?
What zone
We can't tell for sure because you didn't provide the weights of each onion, but my guess is that the difference is almost certainly not statistically significant. That is, there is no evidence that the difference here wasn't just random noise.
not a difference that one would call statistically meaningful
Thanks 4the tests..... I'm zip codes 32221 & 33024- need a simple planner...UF extension channel isn't helpful
Not worth it.
Where did you get the walla walla seedlings?
Or is that a trade secret.
Asking for a friend. Hahaha
But Where?
I was looking for that info, too.