@Virginia In MaineHello Virginia. I have watched the no rules composting. Looks like a dead sure way of creating a smell and inviting vermin into your garden. The drunken composting and speed composting is a waste of beer and besides, 'what's the hurry'. Winter composting over 6 months is fast enough for me. Jim.
Like HGV I use the over winter method for my bucket and tubs for years. Well worth watching the link posted by HGV. Now I do not have a lawn or a mower so I cheat slightly, I ask the local council workers when they do the last cut around the local grass areas in autumn to dump a basket load at the rear gate from their ride along mowers. This way I get the grass and leaves already 'CHOPPED' and mixed ready for the 'DROP'...lol
mate i didnt click to this channel to watch your dogs! i came to watch how to grow onions! but it was such a sweet treat to see them all loving the outdoors with their human! i have 2 cats and 1 very large mallamute x rottie and im a massive animal lover so i kind of got 2 for the price of 1 when i watched this video, a bit like the bucket double onion! :D great vid and thanks for sharing :D xxx
As a nearly 27 year old woman who should be living it up in pubs and bars, I never thought I'd enjoy gardening as much 🤣 your video are a delight to watch. Keep it up!!
OMGosh...My friends used to call me a green thumb, but I am going to step aside to you since you are the champion.. I have to try this now... Good teacher.... thank you.
Thank you for this lovely video Jim! Holy Moly those are big onions! Years ago my folks lived on a 10 acre farm in Badger Canyon, desert domain at the base of the Horse Heaven Hills in eastern WA. They had a huge garden as well growing acres of alfalfa, corn, etc. with a few apple, apricot and nut trees. Dad grew a ton of huge beefsteak tomatoes and Walla Walla sweets, we call them, in eastern WA state. I'm now north of Seattle. Walla Walla sweet onions are mild, sweet, and delicious, but they don't keep quite as well or as long as other onions, from our experience. It was pure delight seeing "the pack" frolic at the seashore! Then home and down for the count...little sweethearts, the lot. It's 5.30 in the morning here and having coffee; seeing those precious pups made my day a happy one! Supposed to snow here today or tomorrow. Speaking of onions, I need to dehydrate the 50-plus lbs. I have! Been putting it off for days now. Boohoo and chop chop! Lol. I'd better get it done. Always a thumbs up and grateful you share! Thanks again and warm regards to the missus from across the pond!👵🌌🌲🌁⛄❄🌲🌱🌱🍃💞🐾🐕...ending with sweet Molly😊
Walla Walla onions come from Walla Walla Washington State US. Names for the Tribe from that area. I am from Washington and Walla Wallas are the main onion around here for 75 years.
Robin, they originally came in the late 1800's from Corsica with a French immigrant, believe it or not! They did well there and people were impressed with them - and the rest is history, as they say. David
@@dahutful Hi Dave. If we skip through 200 years of history, the common dominators are, latitude 47° north, and temperate climate. Both Corsica and Washington State meet this criteria. Bottom line is, it was "Named" Walla Walla, only because it was developed into an onion that eventually would grow true to todays characteristics in the early 1900's,, there. Though they will probably grow anywhere, they will not thrive, or reach potential, outside of recommended grow zones. So, you & Robin are both right. The seeds origin is France, the Varieties name came from where they were first successfully grown here. What's' interesting to me is "Why" they grow equally as well, 2 different countries, a 1/3rd + of the way around the world from one another. Just food for thought,
Nice video Jim. Do you have a video that shows you actually separating the starts that grow in the cups, and then how you plant them. I know how I do it, and it works. Many in here know how and may think it mundane, but am sure there are many , new to gardening, that would benefit from it. Just a suggestion. The Walla Walla's I think you'll enjoy. Very sweet and large, but not meant for storage. Neither are the Ailsa's, and we've all seen how well yours stored in those blue flats in your garage.👍👍👍 Will be interesting to see how well yours store. They are a long day variety, so they should grow well in your area. Also, 2 more ways you can grow your extra plants. 1) If you grow Tomato's in your in ground garden, plant a couple in between your Tomato plants. They grow well together and help deter some unbeneficial insects and pests. Great companion plants. 2) Plant 8-10-12 of the smallest ones in 10" pots. Those can be harvested right up to the bulbing stage and used in recipes that call for chopped spring onions. Very flavorful when young. Plant them all. Even the tiniest of plants Will grow. TYFS Jim, Stay Safe and Well Mark and Rosa
We get a lot of Walla Walla onion for a short time each year . They are grown in my state, Walla Walla Washington. They are delicious onions, but they don’t store very well. That is crazy how they grew! You don’t just have green thumbs, your whole hand is green!And the onions all took a bow😁That little guy tried his hardest to catch up with the greyhounds 😁Mollie looked like she was clamming 😁They are all having a blast! Love it!❤️oops I was wrong they aren’t greyhounds
Hello. Thank you for giving us great videos even through the winter, although after Christmas I consider it to be very early spring because there are onions to plant and seed catalogs to bother our wallets. So wonderful to see Mollie and the other pups cavorting. I had to watch it 5 times because I have a dog that watches TV and he got so excited with the guys running and splashing and playing. He wore himself out barking with them. I hope you are keeping well and sane during the lockdown. Here is to a wonderful gardening season to keep us all outdoors, busy and happy.
Beautiful onions and as usual a very encouraging lesson.🙂 I'm excited to start my onions this week.🙂 It's great how you take the mystery out of gardening. And that was the cutest time of being put on hold...while you cleaned up the onions!😄
Took me a moment to catch up to your accent. Definitely not used to it. What a lovely channel, you've got a new subscriber! I love your simple approach to this, thank you for the video!
Wow, yes i enjoyed seeing the roots of an onion 🧅 for the first time, it's so interesting seeing what our food looks like before it goes to the supermarket 😍
Hello from North Carolina. Thank you for including footage with the dogs - look at them go!! Before watching your videos, I had never heard of the breed Lurchers, but watching this makes me want to see them in action. Excellent runners - you can tell its in their blood and they love it. When your Walla Wallas produce, you are in for a treat. I have never grown that kind before, but they are available at the better grocery stores here and are excellent for cooking, eating fresh, or storing. Good to see you continuing to grow on. Happy New Year!! Melody B in NC
Well, my first potato is getting tall enough to put in a bucket, and I've got cups and pots to start onions as well. No signs of life from the sweet potato yet, but it may be too cold even indoors for it right now. I got a few onions last year, which was my first. This year I'll be going full-on with onions, shallots and carrots, at least. A person can eat a lot of plain food and be happy with an onion and a few roots to add to it. Thanks so much for your videos!
Love seeing your onions. Hope those long day onions work out - they should, based on what we've learned. Looking forward to it. Thanks David S Carolina
Walla walla are good. Glad you got some. I am planning to grow onions again. And I am definitely going to try the carrots in the buckets. Didn't get them to grow at all last year. Who are all the pups? Visitors? And a Molly look alike. They were sure having fun.
"It just gets better!" --- Love your videos so much. I was giving up hope on my teeny tiny onions that are growing from seed. Your video makes me want to keep trying!
I think you are amazing! I cannot wait to try to grow onions and carrots and potatoes in a bucket!! I live in Virginia and our soil is mostly clay and the onions always rot, the carrots are short and stubby and the potatoes are small and hard to dig up. Thank you for your bucket videos!
Hello Mary. The soil in my garden is clay soil. I use it year after year in my buckets always trying to improve it always adding something to it always resting it overwinter under some organic chop and drop. Check this out: studio.th-cam.com/users/video3fobn7dc76U/edit
@@HomeGrownVeg Thank you! I will work on improving my clay soil. In the meantime, I will grow in buckets. By the way, where do you live--in what country?
Dear Home Grown Veg: Please do not get the COVID vaccine! It is a Bioweapon to make people sick and die. So many people in America are lining up for the shot, even though it is making people sick and some are dying. The world has gone insane. Some doctors are warning about it, but most people refuse to believe the good doctors. Please stay healthy so you can keep making videos so people like me can improve our gardening skills. God bless you!
That's great 😊👍, I love watching Molly with you, but I'm not sure if I understand I Saw a video where I thought you had said Molly had passed 😢 I was so sad and felt sad 💔 for u. Now I am see Molly in your videos and I sure am injoying them. Also guess what I had some onions growing on my counter and decided I better plant them or I would lose them and I did them the same way as you're showing us so I sure feel a lot better cuz I didn't know if it would work thank you so much and God bless you 🙏❤️🤗.
@@pearlsalsman6946 Hello Pearl. I am recycling some of my old videos so that I can show a passed 'end result' alongside a beginning. This gives viewers an idea of what they might expect and what's possible. Molly has passed but she is always in my thoughts and lots of my videos. Good luck with your Onions. Jim.
@@HomeGrownVeg Thank you so much and I'm so sorry about Molly ! I know what you mean she is always in our 💓 and your videos makes it seam as she is right there , I really enjoy and learn from you. I which I knew how to do all this technology stuff and I would share a picture of the onions and potatoes, yes potatoes 😊they just started growing so I put them in a bucket and now I have a bucket full, well it a tote a big one. One day I went out and was messing around in the bucket and found out I had a bucket load of potatoes and I still have to get them out. I was so excited and happy I had a tote full. Thank you for letting me know about everything and you have a blessed 🙏 day.
love your videos and I have learned so much. I can't put things on window sills inside the house because I have 2 cats, but I have an alley (wooden doors either end and roofed) with shelving in, and with a skylite window, do you think this would be warm enough and give enough light to start onion seeds? I do have a greenhouse but feel it would be too cold in there at the moment. I'm in Lincs, UK
I am growing Walla Walla for the first time this year, too. I will keep watching and compare my harvest with yours. :) did you get your seed from Premier seeds?
Given how cheap onions are in supermarket, do you think the water bucket would be better used for a crop that is more costly to buy? I cannot taste any difference between a homegrown onion and a shop bought one. - Chris Johnson, The Lincolnshire Bucketeer. P
Ok now, you have me worried! I have a half barrel planted red onions and maybe I should have spaced them out more! Oh, dear!🙄 Mine will surely be shoulder to shoulder.
was the soil mixture you used here the same as the leek container mixture? 1 part sifted top soil, 2 parts sifted compost? Also, Can you tell me how much fish blood and bone meal you used in the 10 inch pots? and is that a necessary amendment? I hate to say this but...the product you use... FISH,BLOOD and BONE MEAL (5-5-6 NPK) isnt sold here in BC. Canada , I cant find a product with all 3 in it. We have a GAIA Fish bone meal (6-18-0 NPK) and a CIL BLOOD meal which is 12-0-0 NPK. or should I just use my GAIA all purpose organic 4-4-4 for these? Thankyou!! Looking fwd to growing these leeks and onions this year.
I wonder why they have the clear window part, is it so you can see the crop? Won't the light affect them? Do you water the potoes now they are planted in the bag? Sorry so many questions 😁🌷
The big onions in the bucket and raised bed were Ailsa Craig grown from seed. The smaller onions were grown from set's. I can't recall their name. Jim.
If you search on onion and leek fertiliser you'll find it. Just add it too the bucket / pot / bag mix or rake it in to your beds. Then its just water the onions after that. Jim.
I used to grow Walla Walla, But oI get 1nly grow Ailsia Craig now. The Walla Walla would only get as big as a marble. I get some 1 pound Ailsia Craig. So no reason to grow Walla Walla.
Do you have a video on how u make compost?
He does. Uses sea weed
I don't have room for a conventional compost pile but this works. Been doing it for years: th-cam.com/video/PJa2DeJPFkc/w-d-xo.html
@Virginia In MaineHello Virginia. I have watched the no rules composting. Looks like a dead sure way of creating a smell and inviting vermin into your garden. The drunken composting and speed composting is a waste of beer and besides, 'what's the hurry'. Winter composting over 6 months is fast enough for me. Jim.
Like HGV I use the over winter method for my bucket and tubs for years. Well worth watching the link posted by HGV.
Now I do not have a lawn or a mower so I cheat slightly, I ask the local council workers when they do the last cut around the local grass areas in autumn to dump a basket load at the rear gate from their ride along mowers. This way I get the grass and leaves already 'CHOPPED' and mixed ready for the 'DROP'...lol
mate i didnt click to this channel to watch your dogs! i came to watch how to grow onions! but it was such a sweet treat to see them all loving the outdoors with their human! i have 2 cats and 1 very large mallamute x rottie and im a massive animal lover so i kind of got 2 for the price of 1 when i watched this video, a bit like the bucket double onion! :D great vid and thanks for sharing :D xxx
Sweet Molly
As a nearly 27 year old woman who should be living it up in pubs and bars, I never thought I'd enjoy gardening as much 🤣 your video are a delight to watch. Keep it up!!
Watching that soil ball come out of the cup in the exact shape of the cup was oddly satisfying haha
OMGosh...My friends used to call me a green thumb, but I am going to step aside to you since you are the champion.. I have to try this now... Good teacher.... thank you.
Thank you for this lovely video Jim! Holy Moly those are big onions! Years ago my folks lived on a 10 acre farm in Badger Canyon, desert domain at the base of the Horse Heaven Hills in eastern WA. They had a huge garden as well growing acres of alfalfa, corn, etc. with a few apple, apricot and nut trees. Dad grew a ton of huge beefsteak tomatoes and Walla Walla sweets, we call them, in eastern WA state. I'm now north of Seattle. Walla Walla sweet onions are mild, sweet, and delicious, but they don't keep quite as well or as long as other onions, from our experience. It was pure delight seeing "the pack" frolic at the seashore! Then home and down for the count...little sweethearts, the lot. It's 5.30 in the morning here and having coffee; seeing those precious pups made my day a happy one! Supposed to snow here today or tomorrow. Speaking of onions, I need to dehydrate the 50-plus lbs. I have! Been putting it off for days now. Boohoo and chop chop! Lol. I'd better get it done. Always a thumbs up and grateful you share! Thanks again and warm regards to the missus from across the pond!👵🌌🌲🌁⛄❄🌲🌱🌱🍃💞🐾🐕...ending with sweet Molly😊
LOL thumbs up for both the onions and for Molly. :-)
Walla Walla onions come from Walla Walla Washington State US. Names for the Tribe from that area. I am from Washington and Walla Wallas are the main onion around here for 75 years.
Robin, they originally came in the late 1800's from Corsica with a French immigrant, believe it or not!
They did well there and people were impressed with them - and the rest is history, as they say.
David
@@dahutful Interesting..Thank you.
@@dahutful Hi Dave. If we skip through 200 years of history, the
common dominators are, latitude 47° north, and temperate climate.
Both Corsica and Washington State meet this criteria.
Bottom line is, it was "Named" Walla Walla, only because it was
developed into an onion that eventually would grow true to todays
characteristics in the early 1900's,, there. Though they will probably
grow anywhere, they will not thrive, or reach potential, outside of
recommended grow zones.
So, you & Robin are both right. The seeds origin is France, the Varieties
name came from where they were first successfully grown here.
What's' interesting to me is "Why" they grow equally as well, 2 different
countries, a 1/3rd + of the way around the world from one another.
Just food for thought,
@@marktoldgardengnome4110 they don’t know where they are.
The day length is the defining factor, all other elements being equal.
@@dahutful Exactly, hence the importance of growing the right onions for where you live. Actually all plants in general.
Nice video Jim. Do you have a video that shows you actually separating the starts
that grow in the cups, and then how you plant them. I know how I do it, and it works.
Many in here know how and may think it mundane, but am sure there are many , new
to gardening, that would benefit from it. Just a suggestion.
The Walla Walla's I think you'll enjoy. Very sweet and large, but not meant for storage.
Neither are the Ailsa's, and we've all seen how well yours stored in those blue flats in
your garage.👍👍👍 Will be interesting to see how well yours store. They are a long
day variety, so they should grow well in your area.
Also, 2 more ways you can grow your extra plants.
1) If you grow Tomato's in your in ground garden, plant a couple in between your
Tomato plants. They grow well together and help deter some unbeneficial insects
and pests. Great companion plants.
2) Plant 8-10-12 of the smallest ones in 10" pots. Those can be harvested right up
to the bulbing stage and used in recipes that call for chopped spring onions. Very
flavorful when young. Plant them all. Even the tiniest of plants Will grow.
TYFS Jim, Stay Safe and Well
Mark and Rosa
😊🌱👍
We get a lot of Walla Walla onion for a short time each year . They are grown in my state, Walla Walla Washington. They are delicious onions, but they don’t store very well. That is crazy how they grew! You don’t just have green thumbs, your whole hand is green!And the onions all took a bow😁That little guy tried his hardest to catch up with the greyhounds 😁Mollie looked like she was clamming 😁They are all having a blast! Love it!❤️oops I was wrong they aren’t greyhounds
Walla walla onions are fantastic and hugely popular here in Colorado USA
Hello. Thank you for giving us great videos even through the winter, although after Christmas I consider it to be very early spring because there are onions to plant and seed catalogs to bother our wallets. So wonderful to see Mollie and the other pups cavorting. I had to watch it 5 times because I have a dog that watches TV and he got so excited with the guys running and splashing and playing. He wore himself out barking with them. I hope you are keeping well and sane during the lockdown. Here is to a wonderful gardening season to keep us all outdoors, busy and happy.
😁💞🐕
Walla Walla onions are bred for cooler climates. Walla Walla is in Oregon, USA. Very sweet onion.
I love seeing Molly. What a good dog. Inspiring onions :)
Beautiful onions and as usual a very encouraging lesson.🙂 I'm excited to start my onions this week.🙂 It's great how you take the mystery out of gardening. And that was the cutest time of being put on hold...while you cleaned up the onions!😄
You’re giving me hope that I can grow onions too. And I loved watching the dogs at the beach.
Took me a moment to catch up to your accent. Definitely not used to it. What a lovely channel, you've got a new subscriber!
I love your simple approach to this, thank you for the video!
Beautiful Molly 💞. Lovely to see her again. Thank you for another great video. Take care x
Wow, yes i enjoyed seeing the roots of an onion 🧅 for the first time, it's so interesting seeing what our food looks like before it goes to the supermarket 😍
Hello from North Carolina. Thank you for including footage with the dogs - look at them go!! Before watching your videos, I had never heard of the breed Lurchers, but watching this makes me want to see them in action. Excellent runners - you can tell its in their blood and they love it. When your Walla Wallas produce, you are in for a treat. I have never grown that kind before, but they are available at the better grocery stores here and are excellent for cooking, eating fresh, or storing. Good to see you continuing to grow on. Happy New Year!! Melody B in NC
Time to plant some seeds thanks for the kick up the rear. love the vids HGV .Still miss molly
As a kid we had a brindle lurcher (Collie X whippet X greyhound). Great blog for beginners & experienced gardener's alike 🙂
superb! (and yay Molly)
Loved the sound of rain in the video clip!! Sadly we are not getting here where I am in Australia!! :-(!!
Amazing technique
Oh ! Looking forward to seeing the onions 😁
The dogs loved it on that beach!
Old skool whippets n grews great dogs n of course mollie such an obedient dog well done sir
Nice
Great video, been avid viewer for years, thanks from bill
Always good to see HGV videos.
love watching yours videos well done keep them coming and stay safe mate.
Well, my first potato is getting tall enough to put in a bucket, and I've got cups and pots to start onions as well. No signs of life from the sweet potato yet, but it may be too cold even indoors for it right now. I got a few onions last year, which was my first. This year I'll be going full-on with onions, shallots and carrots, at least. A person can eat a lot of plain food and be happy with an onion and a few roots to add to it. Thanks so much for your videos!
Brilliant. Thank you.
❤
Amazing! Makes me want to try it!
I have some walla walla's in seed trays at the moment, so looking forward to see how they do. Great video Jim :)
So love watching you. Very encouraging . Do all mine for first time . So time will tell.
Love watching the dogs .
Love your videos! keep them coming!
Thank you! Will do!
Think I'll try some in a bucket this year cos I have some spare overstating sets
Great video I have Alisa Craig going now , doing well in winter 👍
Love seeing your onions.
Hope those long day onions work out - they should, based on what we've learned.
Looking forward to it.
Thanks
David
S Carolina
Might have to give seeds a go !
My best ever Onions grown in a Raised Bed: th-cam.com/video/7N3_6Hc72WM/w-d-xo.html
Walla walla are good. Glad you got some. I am planning to grow onions again. And I am definitely going to try the carrots in the buckets. Didn't get them to grow at all last year. Who are all the pups? Visitors? And a Molly look alike. They were sure having fun.
Hello Laurie. The clip was from an old video. It was Molly with guests Tess, Fern and Dotty. Jim.
@@HomeGrownVeg well, no wonder it was a look alike, it was her. Enjoyed the picture of her among the onions, too. 💕
"It just gets better!" --- Love your videos so much. I was giving up hope on my teeny tiny onions that are growing from seed. Your video makes me want to keep trying!
They may not make anything but then again they just might! Only way to find out. Keep watering them. Jim.
I think you are amazing! I cannot wait to try to grow onions and carrots and potatoes in a bucket!! I live in Virginia and our soil is mostly clay and the onions always rot, the carrots are short and stubby and the potatoes are small and hard to dig up.
Thank you for your bucket videos!
Hello Mary. The soil in my garden is clay soil. I use it year after year in my buckets always trying to improve it always adding something to it always resting it overwinter under some organic chop and drop. Check this out: studio.th-cam.com/users/video3fobn7dc76U/edit
@@HomeGrownVeg Thank you! I will work on improving my clay soil. In the meantime, I will grow in buckets. By the way, where do you live--in what country?
Dear Home Grown Veg: Please do not get the COVID vaccine! It is a Bioweapon to make people sick and die. So many people in America are lining up for the shot, even though it is making people sick and some are dying. The world has gone insane. Some doctors are warning about it, but most people refuse to believe the good doctors. Please stay healthy so you can keep making videos so people like me can improve our gardening skills. God bless you!
@@maryproductionsllc9260 I live in the UK, on the English side of the border with Scotland. Jim.
@@maryproductionsllc9260 Too late Mary, I've had the jab. So far so good. Jim.
Going to try bucket gardening for the first time this year... thinking of carrots and leeks... can't wait:)
Give this a go as well: th-cam.com/video/1iaMepNLvxI/w-d-xo.html
That's great 😊👍, I love watching Molly with you, but I'm not sure if I understand I Saw a video where I thought you had said Molly had passed 😢 I was so sad and felt sad 💔 for u.
Now I am see Molly in your videos and I sure am injoying them.
Also guess what I had some onions growing on my counter and decided I better plant them or I would lose them and I did them the same way as you're showing us so I sure feel a lot better cuz I didn't know if it would work thank you so much and God bless you 🙏❤️🤗.
@@pearlsalsman6946 Hello Pearl. I am recycling some of my old videos so that I can show a passed 'end result' alongside a beginning. This gives viewers an idea of what they might expect and what's possible. Molly has passed but she is always in my thoughts and lots of my videos. Good luck with your Onions. Jim.
@@HomeGrownVeg Thank you so much and I'm so sorry about Molly ! I know what you mean she is always in our 💓 and your videos makes it seam as she is right there , I really enjoy and learn from you.
I which I knew how to do all this technology stuff and I would share a picture of the onions and potatoes, yes potatoes 😊they just started growing so I put them in a bucket and now I have a bucket full, well it a tote a big one. One day I went out and was messing around in the bucket and found out I had a bucket load of potatoes and I still have to get them out.
I was so excited and happy I had a tote full.
Thank you for letting me know about everything and you have a blessed 🙏 day.
love your videos and I have learned so much. I can't put things on window sills inside the house because I have 2 cats, but I have an alley (wooden doors either end and roofed) with shelving in, and with a skylite window, do you think this would be warm enough and give enough light to start onion seeds? I do have a greenhouse but feel it would be too cold in there at the moment.
I'm in Lincs, UK
had ailsa craig in pot for month nothing showed so threw them in the potting compost now have onions everywhere.lol
Good job🧅
👏👏👏
I am growing Walla Walla for the first time this year, too. I will keep watching and compare my harvest with yours. :) did you get your seed from Premier seeds?
Hello Sharon. Yes I got my seeds from Premier. Hope we can grow them. Jim.
Given how cheap onions are in supermarket, do you think the water bucket would be better used for a crop that is more costly to buy? I cannot taste any difference between a homegrown onion and a shop bought one. - Chris Johnson, The Lincolnshire Bucketeer.
P
Hi Jim is it too late for me to plant onions seeds im not sure when I should plant some great onions by the way
Hello Julie. Late Winter Early Spring is fine indoors and plant out April'ish or when the weather starts to warm up. Jim.
Ok now, you have me worried! I have a half barrel planted red onions and maybe I should have spaced them out more! Oh, dear!🙄 Mine will surely be shoulder to shoulder.
My ailsa craig didn’t germinate, either. Thought they were dead seeds and threw them away. Perhaps I should have waited a bit longer 🤨
@Virginia In Maine 👍 thanks . Will try again 🤨
was the soil mixture you used here the same as the leek container mixture? 1 part sifted top soil, 2 parts sifted compost? Also, Can you tell me how much fish blood and bone meal you used in the 10 inch pots? and is that a necessary amendment? I hate to say this but...the product you use... FISH,BLOOD and BONE MEAL (5-5-6 NPK) isnt sold here in BC. Canada , I cant find a product with all 3 in it. We have a GAIA Fish bone meal (6-18-0 NPK) and a CIL BLOOD meal which is 12-0-0 NPK. or should I just use my GAIA all purpose organic 4-4-4 for these? Thankyou!! Looking fwd to growing these leeks and onions this year.
If you Google Onion and Leek fertilizer you'll find it. Made for the job. Have a good growing year. Jim.
@@HomeGrownVeg hahaha!, why didnt I thinka that. Thankyou :)
What fertilizer did you use ?
I added some Onion fertiliser to the soil at planting time. Jim
I wonder why they have the clear window part, is it so you can see the crop? Won't the light affect them? Do you water the potoes now they are planted in the bag? Sorry so many questions 😁🌷
This video's about Onions???
@@HomeGrownVeg 😂😂I'm so sorry I was watching another video I have no idea how that comment ended up here! Nice onions by the way 😁👍
In the UK we call it 'a senior moment'. Made me smile. Jim.
@@HomeGrownVeg charming 😁
Which onion seeds did you plant?
The big onions in the bucket and raised bed were Ailsa Craig grown from seed. The smaller onions were grown from set's. I can't recall their name. Jim.
I'm searching for what and how to 'fertilize' onions... do you ever show that? Love your videos. Thanks!
If you search on onion and leek fertiliser you'll find it. Just add it too the bucket / pot / bag mix or rake it in to your beds. Then its just water the onions after that. Jim.
If you drew eyes and a mouth on that onion (at 4:33), it would be sporting a very fetching beard. Maybe next time!
I used to grow Walla Walla, But oI get 1nly grow Ailsia Craig now. The Walla Walla would only get as big as a marble. I get some 1 pound Ailsia Craig. So no reason to grow Walla Walla.
That was overwintering