I just can't afford to buy plants to transplant any more. They are priced any where from $3.00 to $10.00 a pot. I have an acre, so I just started buying seeds. So far so good. Some are ready to transplant now.
My space is to small to do transplants so doing direct seed 🤞I do have potato starts and onion starts and have 7 large above ground beds ( I have mole issues and rabbits so I did above ground beds with hardwire in bottom and chicken wire around top of beds to keep out rabbits) growing in abundance hoping to have enough to feed my family. Doing 20 wicking tubs also hope that’s enough doing suctioning planting
Can't believe I drifted away from this channel. I have ordered from HOSS. I will be ordering again. Really enjoyed the video Travis thank you for all of your helpful knowledge and insight.
I had a step dad that grew onions in our garden in New Mexico. He was a truck driver and could only stop sometimes but not regularly. Still we gave him a section for the onion and truly his onions were amazing!. He came from Tennessee and knew much more than us. I’ve still trying to figure out how he did that. Thanks for your help !
Travis, I am all in! My knees are full of wonderful smelling Amite, Louisiana "dirt". Today, we just set out six, single drilled, forty foot rows (480 transplants) of various Hoss supplied onion seed varieties. As always, we reap fantastic germination on Hoss Seeds. The rows were set at 18" spacing with 6 inches between plants. I plant on the flat. Seeds were transplanted from 338 cell trays under buried drip tape with an injection of 20-20-20 and Micro-Boost. The varieties we planted were Sweet Harvest, Plethora, Yellow Granex, and Red Creole. I can hear them growing now. The wheel plows are ready to roll. Garlic and leeks awaiting too. Fantastic video!👍
I live in 7a/b. My onions are going in the ground this week and plan on using row covers when the temp drops. We had 20 degree temps for nearly 60 hrs, 2 weeks ago and all my cauliflower and broccoli survived using row covers and incandescent string lights. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
MADE WEATHER. WHAT ? HOW? H.A.A.R.P WEATHER MANIPULATING DEVICE TO B EXACT. . THE ELITE 1% IS TRYING TO CAUSE A FOOD SHORTAGE. + 17 YR LOCUST. B PREPARED STOCK UP ON CAN GOODS NOW WHILE THEY R STILL CHEAP. THEY LAST ALOT LONGER THE THE BEST BY DATE BY YRS.
@@workphone4210 what ever! I WILL puke before I eat a can of winter peas out of a can. I will eat fresh. I refuse to hide in a cave eating canned goods. Me and whoever will just have it out and it will be over quick either way.
Fantastic content Hoss! Thanks so much; you really helped me - I live adjacent to a salt marsh in zone 8b - near the delineation from intermediate to short - day. Not a farm; I just enjoying gardening. Greetings from Virginia Beach, VA. 😊 All the best to you!
Thank you for this very helpful, much-needed video. I appreciate that you provided a map on where to grow short, intermediate and long day onions and listed on your new website which onions to use. I just love your new website! It has so much information and much easier to navigate. You make it simple for the small, beginning gardener with all your experience.
This is a really great video. I realize that you are selling your stuff but...you offer great and honest advice regardless if someone is going to buy from you or not. It's great to see your integrity compared to todays fast shuffle and slight of hand selling presentations the public endures today. I wish you great success. You are doing a great service for those who view your channel.
Moultrie ga. here have grown onions for years have 375 sweet onions in the ground now. Just got me my first. 32 rack greenhouse my garden is 50 yards by 100 yards. This year I planted my onions 14 inches apart to give them a lot of room and do not like grass in my garden. I have a semi deep well with a good irrigation system . I grow more than we cam put up. Love ya show.
I’ve grown onions both by seeding into trays and buying plants and you are spot on, the self grown plants take off a lot quicker. I’ve been trying without success to grow Cippolini type onions at my latitude (34 degrees) where I can only grow short day onions.
@@gardeningwithhoss Yeah, I was afraid of that. I’m guessing you guys are at about 32 degrees latitude, worse off than I am when it comes to onion growing. Closest I’ve come is with “Flat of Italy” a purple. variety that yielded about 10% bulbs and 90% were straight as a board, no bulb whatsoever. I’ll keep trying until I find something that works.
Found your channel recently when looking up the heavy duty trays. I'm glad I found it since you and your father give excellent information and advice to help anyone from a novice gardener, homesteader, or novices looking to get into farming. Look forward to seeing a lot more of your videos.
Egyptian Walking onions can be planted any time the ground is not frozen, and do fine over winter. I am in zone 6b, and they do great year round. I wish they were strong flavored onions though.
I just found some Walla Walla onion seedlings at the market this morning. So excited, as I've never found them in NZ before. Then found this video. I'm sure hoping it's the right type of onion for this area! Have subscribed. You were so thorough and informative. Thank you!!!
Had a lot of success last year with my onions using your technics Trav, I'm hoping for even better results this time with a year of knowledge under my belt.
Getting ready to plant mine next week. I’ve been following your guidance for over 3 years and the difference is undeniable. I’ve got to tighten up my fungicide program however. I’ve got the stuff just need to get on it earlier and stay regular with it. Great video Travis.
Thanks you for sharing your experience with Onions. you explain almost perfectly about growing Onions. Thanks you for helping us to grow our own food. This is a great video.
I’m in zone 3a, I’ve had some onions that I’ve missed picking in the fall, and they’ve managed to start growing again in the spring, I haven’t tried to plant my onions in the fall, I still plant in the spring
Even an old gardener like me can learn something new. I didn’t realize I was trying to grow long day onions here in Northeast Oklahoma. In my defense, I spent so many years in Wyoming, it just didn’t occur to me that the same onions I grew there wouldn’t perform well here. Guess I’ll be visiting your site to get some different seeds. LOL
This was a learning thing for me too this year. I had no idea about long day and short day onions until I started researching the varieties I wanted to grow. I recently moved from a long day to short day growing zone so I'm relearning a whole lot! I can't wait for my onion seedlings to look as good as his! 🙏
Hello. Thanks for the video. I'm in Ohio and have tried to grow onions from seed and got only green onions. I also purchased onion starts from another company and those onions grow a lot faster and gave me a fantastic crop. The onions I grew from seed took a really long time to get going. I believe they were started in March indoors. I fed and watered them both of the onions at the same time. In my zone, It's best for me to grow long day onions because of how much sunlight they get during the day. There are still some onions in my garden as of today. They purposely were left there as an experiment to see if they will grow into a large bulb this year or turn to seed. Those onions are the size of green onions and are also the ones I started in March of last year. It is now January 2024 and they honestly have not grown very much.
I’m a first time grower and just Bought candy onions. Because of above and under ground critters I plant everything in fabric grow bags and doing the same with the onions (even though they don’t like them anyway) so any garden you plant, how do you keep the critters from eatting underground roots? I have it all. Squirrels chipmunks moles voles gophers and now deer. Great channel with tons of info and advice. I’m new so you probably covered this on other videos…sorry if you did. Thank you.
Wow! You really lay out some great info! And you get right to the point; no messing around. Glad, too, that I found a source for 20-20-20 fertilizer. Enjoyed every minute.
We bought one of your planters this winter. I can't wait to try it out. Our traditional day to plant our early garden is St. Patrick's Day. I usually buy onion sets. They seem to start much quicker than dried out onion plants.
I don't know what you mean by plant but I just bought five lb onion bulbs and they had a huge variety and I got a pound of each they were $2 a pound I didn't think that was too bad but I do like the idea of growing from seeds and I might just do that next year but I'm planning on planting these this year and I'm going to listen to you to try to get some insight on the best way to grow them cuz I do want them softball-size if it all possible thanks for the video
Hands down as always great in depth video. I have yalls 162 and 338 trays I got some of yalls short day onion seed . I got 100 % germination on the cougars and Savannah sweets. Also got 30lbs of yalls ammonium sulfate
Wow, you schooled me well. I'm a happy camper. 'll be growing onions for the first time this coming spring...short day onions for my zone 8a here in Central Texas. Thanks for the great info.!🙂
Such a complete video. You did such a good job. It’s March 4th here in North Carolina and I’m planting my onions today. Next year I’ll go from seed. Appreciate such a good instructional video.
Green onions are the easiest to grow...Just buy some organic green onions...cut off the green tops & place the white bottoms in the ground. You'll have green onions growing in 2 weeks. U can do the same with onions. U just have to cut the bottom part off that have the roots on the bottom. Put those in dirt and they will grow onions it will just take a lot longer probably 6 months. You can take celery bottoms plant those and it will reproduce celery stocks. I also plant my potato peels plant those & yes potatoes will grow from potatoes. I think there's about 10 veggies you can buy from the grocery store and replant. that will reproduce. I live in San Diego and grow veggies all year around in our garden.
I've had the same green onions growing for 4 years now in a 5 gallon bucket. Bought them from Walmart produce section. Haven't bought anymore since. Can't kill those bastards either. I cut what I need, and in a week it's tall again.
I like buying flowers.thry so pretty! And I like growing veggies and strawberries by seeds and the bare roots for strawberries. I tryed strawberry seeds and did not germinate
Central Ohio here, just planted the onions and garlic that sprouted in the vegetable bin; will overnight them in the garage in the flower pots that used to have mums from last fall. Not a gardener but now that I'm retired, think it might be fun to pretend I know what I'm doing!
I have old onion's that I have purchased from! the market, and that have already started to grow, so I am going to plant them when the weather gets right, in my raised bed garden. Thank you
I just put them in a container, just because we don’t always use onions so just a few like 5 or a little more is fine for my family… first year though growing onions & from seed… this will be my second year though growing vegetables… thanks for the help with this video it’s very much appreciated!
How do you deal with fungus knats on your onions? I grew some two years ago from seed and was a total loss. Had relatively good results from onion sets the past two years. I never quite get the big bulbs I’m looking for. Maybe I’m just using the wrong type I will check and see if I have been growing long day onions. Thanks for doing such an in-depth video. 👍
Haven't had any issues with fungus gnats one they're in the ground. Some folks have issues with them when growing the transplants, but that can usually be solved pretty easily by covering the seeds with perlite in the trays.
I know I used the miracle grow seed starting mix. Possible the larvae were in the soil. I have heard that if you cover the seeds with vermiculite it will help. I will give this a go this spring and see if I can get some nice onions from seed.
Granular Mosquito bites, 2 tablespoons jn a gallon water let sit overnight strain, water top of soil gnats are only down in first 1nch it should take 2 applications 7 days apart
I get my onion local that a guy plants at his house. They are always awesome. He says he gives them several hair cuts before I purchase them from him. He uses a ice cream pale and just plucks and counts them out . Do you trim yours back too? I never realized they grow back .
I look forward to getting all 3 variaties onions, I purchased from yall - oh boy 150 onions 1st , I'm amending my dirt getting it prepared for delivery & planting my garlic also , Thank you so much , I got my seeds I ordered SUPER FAST , YOU SURE ARE A GREAT COMPANY! God bless yall Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
Thank you so much ordering my Sweet onions for my state in Texas, God bless yall Found you through Texasprepper2, and Deepsouth Homestead Mr. Danny & Wanda... Be safe Preparing my 1/4 acre . Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
I'm a lot further north than you are, but I'll apply what you are providing to my climate. My uncle (long past) used to grow a yellow onion and a red onion. I was a kid. I never saw such huge onions. It was in upstate Pennsylvania. My father and I would stop in after a day of fishing that area. How do they get such huge onions!!!????
Got a new sub neighbor.! I'm north of you in Dawson County. Been growing flowers of all kinds for decades but just now have a sunny spot for a kitchen garden. Boy, do I have a lot to learn! I've developed a spot by siting a poplar trunk across the slope, laying heavy cardboard, wood chips, chicken manure & alfalfa pellets. Then I got 2 1/2 yards of landscape mix over this 18'×8' area. Rabbit fence going up this w/e & sent a sample to extension for testing. Jumping in w/ both feet here, wish me luck!
I have just ordered some onions from you. Jason over at Cog Hill Farm "sent" me over to your store. Looking forward to getting started. I ordered Walla Walla onion seeds from you. My husband thought odd to order them from the state that has the city Walla Walla.
7-10 days is one of the shortest germination times I'm aware of for popular garden veggies. I think the more valid (validder?) reasons for starting indoors are that onions do not do well against competition (weeds). You touched on that one. Another reason is for us in the north, using long-day onions: We can't start them in the fall/winter, since they might be killed off by severe cold. They're hardy, but not THAT hardy. Therefore, given onions' long days to maturity, we need to give them a head start indoors so that they've grown enough topside to support the bulb development triggered by 14 or 16-hour day lengths once that sweet summertime has finally settled in.
I watched hollis and Nancy from Catalina and grew big wala wala.i bought some and I grew softball size onions which is very unusual cause I live outside of houston.very unusual I no maybe I just got lucky.
I live in zone 9, when would you recommend starting onion seeds? I’ve always bought starts from a local nursery, but would love to try growing my own plants from seed. I have always planted them in late October or early November. Thank you!
I bought two bundles of green onions from the store to plant for harvesting the green tops to eat with meals. When they finally bloom you get a ton of seeds. I have leeks and purple onion seedlings growing now. The leeks are looking good but they`re still only about 6 or 7 inches tall. My hobby used to be collecting various wild onions/garlic which included purple and green walking onions when I traveled playing in a band. I planted all these varieties in the same patch and got some strange hybrids from them. I had to leave the patch behind when I moved. There are no wild onions around my lot now. I can`t afford a car so I`m stranded here.
Excellent video on growing onions. I learned the variety I should be concentrating on, the time of year to plant seeds and how to feed the shoots once they’ve germinated. I definitely will be looking forward to learning from your other videos, especially how to grow elephant garlic.
Do the 1015Y onions take longer to germinate? I planted a full tray of 1015s Nov 1st and most have not come up yet. The Cougar and Sweet Agent have germinated nicely, but I’m concerned about the 1015s. Are they just slower?
We didn't plant any of the 1015s, so we didn't compare ourselves. The Cougar and Sweet Agent are hybrids, which for some reason do tend to always germinate faster.
Travis thank you for your videos on onions and the other vegetables. I have learned so much from you and your dad . Im new to central tx. and glay soil it's a LEARNING EXPERIENCE.
next time try to find onion sets ( tiny little onions about 75 or so in a bundle with a rubber band not much bigger than a bb they look dryed out but they are good plant in the soil in nov in the south by march you will have green onions big enough to pull or cut the tops they will grow back been doing his for years. zone7 south carolina
Very good video, Please tell us how to raise garlic, I don’’t have very good luck with garlic., also is it good to bend your onions over to make them larger? Thank you.
Below is a link to an old garlic video. No we do not bend our onions. Also including a link to our onion growing guide. studio.th-cam.com/users/videot4vjC8DTOwA/edit hosstools.com/onion-growing-guide/
Great info! Im in central Illinois zone 5b. This will be my first time planting onions. Just to be clear on the fertilization aspect, I can add a mix of blood & bone meal at the initial planting(dont have a 20 20 20), and do that until they start to bulb up? Once they start to bulb up, just the blood meal/nitrogen?
The problem with bone and blood meal, they don’t convert well in cold soils. I think you would be better off to use complete organic or a 10-10-10. greg
Great information you lay out there! thanks for it. We're down here in central Florida, you think I ought to start my seeds like, now? whether in seed trays or in my raised beds? today is September 21st.
This is an older video so I hope you get my question.... which is - While you are growing your seedlings in the seed starter mix do you give them any fertilizer up to the time you take them out to plant in the garden? Hope you get this.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thank you. The liquid Fert you showed in the video for once the are planted in the field was 20/20/20 - is that the same for in the greenhouse and how much diluted.
I chose this video because I would like to learn about growing onions myself - I've heard vearying info about which onions are best for winter storage but mostly I seem to hear long day onions store better. I was very confused by your talk about day length up North being longer than in the South and that we don't get 14 hour days - I am also in zone 8b (in NC) and I can assure you that we DO have days that are over 14 hours in length here, usually in June.
In the southern states, we have longer days than the northern states do in the winter months. In the summer months, the winter states have much longer days than us southern states. That's why there's a difference between the onion types.
I heard sweet vidalia onions are a result of lower sulfur content in the soil down there in Vidalia...wonder how I go about lowering the sulfur in my garden soil? add sand?
Without onions, there would be no onion rings. Thank you for the video!
I just can't afford to buy plants to transplant any more. They are priced any where from $3.00 to $10.00 a pot. I have an acre, so I just started buying seeds. So far so good. Some are ready to transplant now.
try seeds and such fir seeds
It costs only 0.05 cents in pk
My space is to small to do transplants so doing direct seed 🤞I do have potato starts and onion starts and have 7 large above ground beds ( I have mole issues and rabbits so I did above ground beds with hardwire in bottom and chicken wire around top of beds to keep out rabbits) growing in abundance hoping to have enough to feed my family. Doing 20 wicking tubs also hope that’s enough doing suctioning planting
@@danielleterry180 sounds like you have it all worked out! Bet you will have a great harvest!
So true
You talk a lot but you don’t ramble. This video is full of great information. Enjoyed every minute.
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Can't believe I drifted away from this channel. I have ordered from HOSS. I will be ordering again. Really enjoyed the video Travis thank you for all of your helpful knowledge and insight.
Welcome back!
I had a step dad that grew onions in our garden in New Mexico. He was a truck driver and could only stop sometimes but not regularly. Still we gave him a section for the onion and truly his onions were amazing!. He came from Tennessee and knew much more than us. I’ve still trying to figure out how he did that. Thanks for your help !
Travis, I am all in! My knees are full of wonderful smelling Amite, Louisiana "dirt". Today, we just set out six, single drilled, forty foot rows (480 transplants) of various Hoss supplied onion seed varieties. As always, we reap fantastic germination on Hoss Seeds. The rows were set at 18" spacing with 6 inches between plants. I plant on the flat. Seeds were transplanted from 338 cell trays under buried drip tape with an injection of 20-20-20 and Micro-Boost. The varieties we planted were Sweet Harvest, Plethora, Yellow Granex, and Red Creole. I can hear them growing now. The wheel plows are ready to roll. Garlic and leeks awaiting too. Fantastic video!👍
Great to hear! Let us know how you like each variety!
Fantastic info! I haven’t done a veggie garden in about 20 yrs so I feel like a newbie! Thank you for the detailed yet quick info!!
I live in 7a/b. My onions are going in the ground this week and plan on using row covers when the temp drops. We had 20 degree temps for nearly 60 hrs, 2 weeks ago and all my cauliflower and broccoli survived using row covers and incandescent string lights. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
Sounds like a great plan!
i l live in zone 7 i plant onion sets in nov. green onions ready to pull up ist of march cold dont hurt them
MADE WEATHER. WHAT ? HOW? H.A.A.R.P WEATHER MANIPULATING DEVICE TO B EXACT. . THE ELITE 1% IS TRYING TO CAUSE A FOOD SHORTAGE. + 17 YR LOCUST. B PREPARED STOCK UP ON CAN GOODS NOW WHILE THEY R STILL CHEAP. THEY LAST ALOT LONGER THE THE BEST BY DATE BY YRS.
@@workphone4210 what ever! I WILL puke before I eat a can of winter peas out of a can. I will eat fresh. I refuse to hide in a cave eating canned goods. Me and whoever will just have it out and it will be over quick either way.
Fantastic content Hoss! Thanks so much; you really helped me - I live adjacent to a salt marsh in zone 8b - near the delineation from intermediate to short - day. Not a farm; I just enjoying gardening. Greetings from Virginia Beach, VA. 😊 All the best to you!
Thank you for this very helpful, much-needed video. I appreciate that you provided a map on where to grow short, intermediate and long day onions and listed on your new website which onions to use. I just love your new website! It has so much information and much easier to navigate. You make it simple for the small, beginning gardener with all your experience.
My pleasure!
I promise to do better next year!! Confused as when to start.
This is a really great video. I realize that you are selling your stuff but...you offer great and honest advice regardless if someone is going to buy from you or not. It's great to see your integrity compared to todays fast shuffle and slight of hand selling presentations the public endures today. I wish you great success. You are doing a great service for those who view your channel.
Glad it was helpful!
Very honest. That make the difference.
Moultrie ga. here have grown onions for years have 375 sweet onions in the ground now. Just got me my first. 32 rack greenhouse my garden is 50 yards by 100 yards. This year I planted my onions 14 inches apart to give them a lot of room and do not like grass in my garden. I have a semi deep well with a good irrigation system . I grow more than we cam put up. Love ya show.
It’s wonderfully ridiculous how easy you make this long day etc business so easy to understand thank you much for clarifying this mystery 💡
Glad we could help!
Sounds good but I need your address so I can buy some seeds thank you
@@jamespaige3804 You can Shop on our website! hosstools.com/
I’ve grown onions both by seeding into trays and buying plants and you are spot on, the self grown plants take off a lot quicker. I’ve been trying without success to grow Cippolini type onions at my latitude (34 degrees) where I can only grow short day onions.
We are envious of the folks who can grow Cippolini onions. We tried it here once, but no luck. Just not meant to be for our region.
@@gardeningwithhoss Yeah, I was afraid of that. I’m guessing you guys are at about 32 degrees latitude, worse off than I am when it comes to onion growing. Closest I’ve come is with “Flat of Italy” a purple. variety that yielded about 10% bulbs and 90% were straight as a board, no bulb whatsoever. I’ll keep trying until I find something that works.
Found your channel recently when looking up the heavy duty trays. I'm glad I found it since you and your father give excellent information and advice to help anyone from a novice gardener, homesteader, or novices looking to get into farming.
Look forward to seeing a lot more of your videos.
Welcome to the channel! Glad you found us!
love Hoos trays. first time Customer. definitely will buy more!
Egyptian Walking onions can be planted any time the ground is not frozen, and do fine over winter. I am in zone 6b, and they do great year round. I wish they were strong flavored onions though.
I just found some Walla Walla onion seedlings at the market this morning. So excited, as I've never found them in NZ before.
Then found this video. I'm sure hoping it's the right type of onion for this area! Have subscribed. You were so thorough and informative. Thank you!!!
Welcome, thanks for joining us,
Had a lot of success last year with my onions using your technics Trav, I'm hoping for even better results this time with a year of knowledge under my belt.
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Getting ready to plant mine next week. I’ve been following your guidance for over 3 years and the difference is undeniable. I’ve got to tighten up my fungicide program however. I’ve got the stuff just need to get on it earlier and stay regular with it. Great video Travis.
Hope you have a great onion harvest in 2021!
Thanks you for sharing your experience with Onions. you explain almost perfectly about growing Onions.
Thanks you for helping us to grow our own food.
This is a great video.
I Have Onions Growing Year Round In my Garden , I am in North Crisp County GA. !!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this is your best video. Very informative.
Wow, thanks!
I love how he says Okrie! 🥰
I’m in zone 3a, I’ve had some onions that I’ve missed picking in the fall, and they’ve managed to start growing again in the spring, I haven’t tried to plant my onions in the fall, I still plant in the spring
Even an old gardener like me can learn something new. I didn’t realize I was trying to grow long day onions here in Northeast Oklahoma. In my defense, I spent so many years in Wyoming, it just didn’t occur to me that the same onions I grew there wouldn’t perform well here. Guess I’ll be visiting your site to get some different seeds. LOL
Glad we could help!
This was a learning thing for me too this year. I had no idea about long day and short day onions until I started researching the varieties I wanted to grow. I recently moved from a long day to short day growing zone so I'm relearning a whole lot! I can't wait for my onion seedlings to look as good as his! 🙏
Hello. Thanks for the video. I'm in Ohio and have tried to grow onions from seed and got only green onions. I also purchased onion starts from another company and those onions grow a lot faster and gave me a fantastic crop. The onions I grew from seed took a really long time to get going. I believe they were started in March indoors. I fed and watered them both of the onions at the same time.
In my zone, It's best for me to grow long day onions because of how much sunlight they get during the day. There are still some onions in my garden as of today. They purposely were left there as an experiment to see if they will grow into a large bulb this year or turn to seed. Those onions are the size of green onions and are also the ones I started in March of last year. It is now January 2024 and they honestly have not grown very much.
Im in southwest VA and i over wintered onions ,it worked for my area( 6A).
Good to hear!
I’m a first time grower and just Bought candy onions. Because of above and under ground critters I plant everything in fabric grow bags and doing the same with the onions (even though they don’t like them anyway) so any garden you plant, how do you keep the critters from eatting underground roots? I have it all. Squirrels chipmunks moles voles gophers and now deer. Great channel with tons of info and advice. I’m new so you probably covered this on other videos…sorry if you did. Thank you.
Wow! You really lay out some great info! And you get right to the point; no messing around. Glad, too, that I found a source for 20-20-20 fertilizer. Enjoyed every minute.
Glad it was helpful!
We bought one of your planters this winter. I can't wait to try it out. Our traditional day to plant our early garden is St. Patrick's Day. I usually buy onion sets. They seem to start much quicker than dried out onion plants.
Have fun!
I am watching this video, even though I already grow my onions from seeds and am really happy with the size. Nice video.
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Thanks Hoss....learned more in 25 min than I thought I would. ....big fan!...liked, subbed, shared and ......DING!
Appreciate it!
I have mys n d garden
They r up.n looking good n d dogs r looking at them enjoy your show
Thanks!
I don't know what you mean by plant but I just bought five lb onion bulbs and they had a huge variety and I got a pound of each they were $2 a pound I didn't think that was too bad but I do like the idea of growing from seeds and I might just do that next year but I'm planning on planting these this year and I'm going to listen to you to try to get some insight on the best way to grow them cuz I do want them softball-size if it all possible thanks for the video
Some of my first memories as a kid was sitting in the garden with my Dad and a salt shaker eating green onions.
Ole South GA boy here as well, very good video.
Thanks
Hands down as always great in depth video. I have yalls 162 and 338 trays I got some of yalls short day onion seed . I got 100 % germination on the cougars and Savannah sweets. Also got 30lbs of yalls ammonium sulfate
Sounds like you're well on your way to an excellent onion harvest!
Wow, you schooled me well. I'm a happy camper. 'll be growing onions for the first time this coming spring...short day onions for my zone 8a here in Central Texas. Thanks for the great info.!🙂
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for taking the time to explain in such details. Best wishes from London, UK.
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This vidja brought a tear to my eye travis
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@@gardeningwithhoss im gonna have to "peel back the layers" of this vidja
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An entire onion education packed into this one. Appreciate it.
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Excellent video. Everyone I know who grows onions successfully agree with you. More success with seeds they start.
Such a complete video. You did such a good job. It’s March 4th here in North Carolina and I’m planting my onions today. Next year I’ll go from seed. Appreciate such a good instructional video.
glad it was helpful, thanks for the comments
U da Bomb! just the shot I needed to get motivated!Thx Travis!
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Thank you for the information on onions. I'm in PA and I've been planting stugart onions several years. Hoping for a good crop this year.
Best of luck!
I have NEVER been able to grow onions! Not even green onions...I’m looking forward to this video!
Green onions are the easiest to grow...Just buy some organic green onions...cut off the green tops & place the white bottoms in the ground. You'll have green onions growing in 2 weeks. U can do the same with onions. U just have to cut the bottom part off that have the roots on the bottom. Put those in dirt and they will grow onions it will just take a lot longer probably 6 months. You can take celery bottoms plant those and it will reproduce celery stocks. I also plant my potato peels plant those & yes potatoes will grow from potatoes. I think there's about 10 veggies you can buy from the grocery store and replant. that will reproduce. I live in San Diego and grow veggies all year around in our garden.
I've had the same green onions growing for 4 years now in a 5 gallon bucket. Bought them from Walmart produce section. Haven't bought anymore since. Can't kill those bastards either. I cut what I need, and in a week it's tall again.
I like buying flowers.thry so pretty! And I like growing veggies and strawberries by seeds and the bare roots for strawberries. I tryed strawberry seeds and did not germinate
Central Ohio here, just planted the onions and garlic that sprouted in the vegetable bin; will overnight them in the garage in the flower pots that used to have mums from last fall. Not a gardener but now that I'm retired, think it might be fun to pretend I know what I'm doing!
I have old onion's that I have purchased from! the market, and that have already started to grow, so I am going to plant them when the weather gets right, in my raised bed garden. Thank you
of course !
Planting in November. Around here we get frost into May. Pre planting indoors is pretty popular and that isn't until late March.
Another good video done by Travis. Sure do miss those.
idk what it is but that intro had me cracking such a big smile lol
Great seeing your onion display! We watch Cog Hill Farm and Jason said, you have the very best seeds!
Thanks so much!
I just put them in a container, just because we don’t always use onions so just a few like 5 or a little more is fine for my family… first year though growing onions & from seed… this will be my second year though growing vegetables… thanks for the help with this video it’s very much appreciated!
Sounds great!
How do you deal with fungus knats on your onions? I grew some two years ago from seed and was a total loss. Had relatively good results from onion sets the past two years. I never quite get the big bulbs I’m looking for. Maybe I’m just using the wrong type I will check and see if I have been growing long day onions. Thanks for doing such an in-depth video. 👍
Haven't had any issues with fungus gnats one they're in the ground. Some folks have issues with them when growing the transplants, but that can usually be solved pretty easily by covering the seeds with perlite in the trays.
I know I used the miracle grow seed starting mix. Possible the larvae were in the soil. I have heard that if you cover the seeds with vermiculite it will help. I will give this a go this spring and see if I can get some nice onions from seed.
Granular Mosquito bites, 2 tablespoons jn a gallon water let sit overnight strain, water top of soil gnats are only down in first 1nch it should take 2 applications 7 days apart
Thanks Travis for the tips on 🌰! We appreciate the knowledge!
My pleasure!
I get my onion local that a guy plants at his house. They are always awesome. He says he gives them several hair cuts before I purchase them from him. He uses a ice cream pale and just plucks and counts them out . Do you trim yours back too? I never realized they grow back .
We don't ever trim them. We try to maximize the vegetative growth during the vegetative phase.
I look forward to getting all 3 variaties onions, I purchased from yall - oh boy 150 onions 1st , I'm amending my dirt getting it prepared for delivery & planting my garlic also ,
Thank you so much , I got my seeds I ordered SUPER FAST , YOU SURE ARE A GREAT COMPANY! God bless yall
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Sounds great!
Thank you so much ordering my Sweet onions for my state in Texas,
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So glad to help. We are happy to have you join us.
Great info, I had never heard of short day, long day onions. Definitely makes sense.
Glad it was helpful!
With their love for water and nutrients I can see why they grow really well in the bottom of ditches along roads, especially the wild types.
Got distracted by what you had growing on vertical panels in the background. Were they pole beans?
Nope, grapes! ) Muscadines!
Good idea to plant the onion grow well...growing up very lush...nice video...
I plant okra for the beatiful flower.
I'm a lot further north than you are, but I'll apply what you are providing to my climate.
My uncle (long past) used to grow a yellow onion and a red onion. I was a kid. I never saw such huge onions. It was in upstate Pennsylvania. My father and I would stop in after a day of fishing that area.
How do they get such huge onions!!!????
He probably fed them very well.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks. A Spanish red onion comes to mind. Is there such an onion?
I've heard of yellow Spanish onions, but not red ones. There are quite a few different varieties of red onions out there though.
Trying the Hillingdon process my self this year
Got a new sub neighbor.! I'm north of you in Dawson County. Been growing flowers of all kinds for decades but just now have a sunny spot for a kitchen garden. Boy, do I have a lot to learn!
I've developed a spot by siting a poplar trunk across the slope, laying heavy cardboard, wood chips, chicken manure & alfalfa pellets. Then I got 2 1/2 yards of landscape mix over this 18'×8' area. Rabbit fence going up this w/e & sent a sample to extension for testing. Jumping in w/ both feet here, wish me luck!
Welcome to the channel and best of luck with your new garden!
I have my cabbage n collards growing my potatoes r up thanks d Lord amen
Awesome onion video very complete answered alll my questions you kept it simply all garden videos should be like this!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have just ordered some onions from you. Jason over at Cog Hill Farm "sent" me over to your store. Looking forward to getting started. I ordered Walla Walla onion seeds from you. My husband thought odd to order them from the state that has the city Walla Walla.
Awesome! Thank you!
7-10 days is one of the shortest germination times I'm aware of for popular garden veggies. I think the more valid (validder?) reasons for starting indoors are that onions do not do well against competition (weeds). You touched on that one. Another reason is for us in the north, using long-day onions: We can't start them in the fall/winter, since they might be killed off by severe cold. They're hardy, but not THAT hardy. Therefore, given onions' long days to maturity, we need to give them a head start indoors so that they've grown enough topside to support the bulb development triggered by 14 or 16-hour day lengths once that sweet summertime has finally settled in.
l like the variety of choices you have growing from seed too. l LOVE cippolini onions, expensive to buy, easy as any other onion to grow.
I watched hollis and Nancy from Catalina and grew big wala wala.i bought some and I grew softball size onions which is very unusual cause I live outside of houston.very unusual I no maybe I just got lucky.
Great vid! Thanks for sharing onion knowledge!
Our pleasure!
I love your videos Bubba. You’ve got a great attitude and really know your stuff. Thank you for these great growing tips!
Thank you for the info. Its much appreciated
I live in zone 9, when would you recommend starting onion seeds? I’ve always bought starts from a local nursery, but would love to try growing my own plants from seed. I have always planted them in late October or early November. Thank you!
Right now.
What Gary said.
I’m in 10a. I know I can “over winter”, but I don’t have time to get seeds started until thanksgiving. Should I? Or should I just wait to spring?
Get them going as soon as you can.
@@kimcritchfield5796 Black Friday! :) Get em going!
I bought two bundles of green onions from the store to plant for harvesting the green tops to eat with meals. When they finally bloom you get a ton of seeds. I have leeks and purple onion seedlings growing now. The leeks are looking good but they`re still only about 6 or 7 inches tall. My hobby used to be collecting various wild onions/garlic which included purple and green walking onions when I traveled playing in a band. I planted all these varieties in the same patch and got some strange hybrids from them. I had to leave the patch behind when I moved. There are no wild onions around my lot now. I can`t afford a car so I`m stranded here.
Greetings from ireland thank you for the information on growing onions I really enjoyed your channel
Hello from across the pond!
Excellent video on growing onions. I learned the variety I should be concentrating on, the time of year to plant seeds and how to feed the shoots once they’ve germinated. I definitely will be looking forward to learning from your other videos, especially how to grow elephant garlic.
Sounds great!
thanks bro for detailed information looking forward to seeing more episode i live in eastern north carolina
Thanks for watching!
Do the 1015Y onions take longer to germinate? I planted a full tray of 1015s Nov 1st and most have not come up yet.
The Cougar and Sweet Agent have germinated nicely, but I’m concerned about the 1015s.
Are they just slower?
We didn't plant any of the 1015s, so we didn't compare ourselves. The Cougar and Sweet Agent are hybrids, which for some reason do tend to always germinate faster.
Travis thank you for your videos on onions and the other vegetables. I have learned so much from you and your dad . Im new to central tx. and glay soil it's a LEARNING EXPERIENCE.
I grew 1015Y this past yr and they came up pretty quick.
next time try to find onion sets ( tiny little onions about 75 or so in a bundle with a rubber band not much bigger than a bb they look dryed out but they are good plant in the soil in nov in the south by march you will have green onions big enough to pull or cut the tops they will grow back been doing his for years. zone7 south carolina
Very good video, Please tell us how to raise garlic, I don’’t have very good luck with garlic., also is it good to bend your onions over to make them larger? Thank you.
Below is a link to an old garlic video. No we do not bend our onions. Also including a link to our onion growing guide.
studio.th-cam.com/users/videot4vjC8DTOwA/edit
hosstools.com/onion-growing-guide/
@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks very much for the reply.
Best video on onions. Thank you:)
My pleasure 😊
Thanks for the information it helps a lot 👍🏼👍🏼
Glad it was helpful!
Great info! Im in central Illinois zone 5b. This will be my first time planting onions. Just to be clear on the fertilization aspect, I can add a mix of blood & bone meal at the initial planting(dont have a 20 20 20), and do that until they start to bulb up? Once they start to bulb up, just the blood meal/nitrogen?
The problem with bone and blood meal, they don’t convert well in cold soils. I think you would be better off to use complete organic or a 10-10-10. greg
@@gardeningwithhoss Thank you so much for replying
Great information you lay out there! thanks for it.
We're down here in central Florida, you think I ought to start my seeds like, now? whether in seed trays or in my raised beds? today is September 21st.
For trays, start 6-8 weeks before needing to transplant. Here in 8b we are planting in trays this week.
This is an older video so I hope you get my question.... which is - While you are growing your seedlings in the seed starter mix do you give them any fertilizer up to the time you take them out to plant in the garden?
Hope you get this.
That is correct, Once germinated and up we do start fertilizing in the greenhouse.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thank you.
The liquid Fert you showed in the video for once the are planted in the field was 20/20/20 - is that the same for in the greenhouse and how much diluted.
Alright, Alright, Alright speaking of plethora you my friend are ALWAYS put a wealth of knowledge out there.
oh dear, we only have temps over 20 degres during heatwaves in high summer! Even then it drops to about 110-15 overnight.
Great info! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very precise explanation! I would never know all of those ins and outs of onion growing!
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Same here. Long time gardener (tho not onions much) I never even thought of the day length zones.
How to you “inject” granular fertilizer into a drip irrigation system?
Thanks for the video. Very informative.
Just like this: th-cam.com/video/v1Q1wgBs75Y/w-d-xo.html
I chose this video because I would like to learn about growing onions myself - I've heard vearying info about which onions are best for winter storage but mostly I seem to hear long day onions store better.
I was very confused by your talk about day length up North being longer than in the South and that we don't get 14 hour days - I am also in zone 8b (in NC) and I can assure you that we DO have days that are over 14 hours in length here, usually in June.
In the southern states, we have longer days than the northern states do in the winter months. In the summer months, the winter states have much longer days than us southern states. That's why there's a difference between the onion types.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thank you...the differences are only about an hour though, and we get enough daylight for both varieties where I live, it seems.
In your case, you could probably do short-day or intermediate-day varieties then.
ohhh I really like those trays!
I think you made the word vegative up...I just stick em in the ground (the seed bulbs) in the fall, they pop up in the spring. Montana :D
This was some good information! #TFS
Nic video. So i bought some Texas super sweet short day seeds and i live in Pa. I planted them last week. Will they produce?
Yes, They may not get large, but you will still make onions
I heard sweet vidalia onions are a result of lower sulfur content in the soil down there in Vidalia...wonder how I go about lowering the sulfur in my garden soil? add sand?
I don't think this is possible. Sulfur leaches out of the soil naturally.
Hey I have two raise beds I want to do over and I have onions I planted last fall. Do you think I could move them or should I start over.
don't move the onions
What are the rules for planting green onions. I live in zone 5b Illinois near Chicago
Green onions, aka bunching onions, can be grown anytime in the cool season. They'll tolerate temps down to the 20s.
Green onions do great here in 5b Chicago area, from spring to early autumn! Speaking from experience👍🏾