Stanley has a laser like focus on his main purpose in life, that's for sure! He cracks me up. What a doofus! Oh, and nice info on the seeds. (I get easily distracted 😉)
Heyhey young lady, very nice video! As it's now seven months since you posted, and ok i admit i only just found your channel, so apologies if i'm doubling up: my main reason for seed saving, beside the greater self-sufficiency it affords, is that over the generations the seeds/plants become more accustomed to local conditions, which obvs is a good thing. I also like to grow as many perennial and self-seeding veggies as i can lay my hands on, so also have perennial Welsh onions (produces seeds) and Egyptian onions (produces bulbils). The Welsh ones here in S UK seem to be much more weather resistant than the Egyptian ones. Late last summer was só wet here that onion and leek seeds started to sprout in the flower heads before they even ripened 😅 Looking forward to more from your channel! 🌱🌱🌱🌳🕊💚🌱🌱🌱
I saved some onion seeds from last year and there's a fair bit of flower head stuck on the seed still. Is it a must to take the dried flower head off when planting? Also, I had a leek go to flower close by and hoping they didn't cross-pollinate but I did not save any seeds. Any thoughts on what these onion seeds might produce? It's early Feb and I'm getting excited to get these going indoors!
As RR commented, plus: carrots, like all plants we don't eat the flower heads of (broccoli, Chinese flowering cabbage etc), are best to eat before any sign of flowering. Radishes would get woody too, lettuce would get bitter etc. Also v nearly all forageable greens are much more palatable and tender before flowering. Happy gardening! 🌳🕊💚 🌱🌱🌱 🌱
Ah yes! Garlic is an interesting one! “True seed garlic” is what we refer to when a garlic flower produces an actual seed, very similar in appearance to onion seed. Garlic was thought to be sterile until the late 1800s and over the years, field tests of seed production have been very limited due to the amount of labor involved. It seems that wild garlic is largely the primary subset of garlic with the capability to produce true seeds. But many seed savers and garlic growers have been showing some productive results from their painstaking labors to produce true seed garlic varieties. When looking at a garlic flower umbel, there are usually bulbils, which look like tiny garlic cloves, and true flowers. The bulbils allow for asexual reproduction. They can be harvested and planted. Usually the bulbils are used for reproduction by the plant. As the bulbils grow, the flowers die back naturally. However, if you harvest the bulbils carefully before they fully develop, you can retain the flowers and allow them to be pollinated. If it is successful and the variety is able to produce seeds, you’ll be rewarded for all your hard work with true garlic seed! Fascinating, right?! Here’s some great in depth info if you want to geek out further 🤓 garlicseed.blogspot.com/p/growing-garlic-from-true-seed.html?m=1
@@RootedRevival 😂 it happened to me one year when I was super late harvesting my garlic and the seeds looked like purple kernels. I thought about trying to plant them but then didn’t for some reason. It was cool
@@RootedRevival I remember a hillside full of garlic in flower, above a rocky cliff in Italy. The ARS, USDA, have a pretty interesting article on garlic origins: "The origins and distribution of garlic: How many garlics are there?" 🌳🕊💚
That's a fantastic idea! Some will last many years! The green onion patch that I harvested the seeds from is in its 3rd season. Green onions, scallions, leeks and chives are especially long lasting. But I've found that even some bulb onions will last many years or resow themselves. It's a fun experiment to try out some different varieties and see how long they last in your garden. Plus, can you beat those flowers?! They bring so many pollinators and beneficial insects to the garden too!
@@RootedRevival I'm trying to figure out a cheap way to have alliums around. I'm also planning on planting the tiny garlic cloves from my seed garlic around my fruit trees and just letting them go crazy
@@eulerizeit Great idea! The high sulfur content in alliums can help deter some of the most common fruit tree pests. There have even been some studies that suggest it can help reduce apple and pear scab. It's really fun to see first hand how the different plants can benefit each other!
How is it that no one shows how to sustain the onion over the winter in order to keep them viable to flower? They dont talk about how to water them during winter, how to cover them, nothing! Its "How to plant" "How to grow" "How to harvest" SKIP WINTERIZING "Oh, look seeds the next year so how to harvest seeds". Um...winterizing? Watering? Covering? Anything?
At 3:30 ish in the video she talks about pulling them out of ground to winterize them but points out that a lot of areas can stay in the ground. So she does talk about it and made a small note. It’s not an issue for a lot of folks in areas, i also leave them in ground
I live in zone 6b and i just leave some of my onions outside to grow over the winter and they’ll either make a bigger bulb or flower the next summer. You could google how to do it in your own growing zone rather than complain on this video that it didnt cover what you wanted.
I live in North Idaho. It got down to negative 23 degrees this past winter. I didn’t do anything to my onion plants that I left in the ground. They all produced flowers! I have about ten, and they are all in flower. I didn’t even mulch.
Finally someone explained all the way and properly 🙏🏻❤️
Thank you for not dramatizing the video and stretching it out to 3 hours long. Very much appreciated!
Thank-you for sharing sister I never knew the onion seeds inside flower 😅so much to learn watching from South Africa 🇿🇦
Really nice job explaining the process.
I hope you girls are going to make more videos. I have so much from watching
Lovely
Stanley has a laser like focus on his main purpose in life, that's for sure! He cracks me up. What a doofus! Oh, and nice info on the seeds. (I get easily distracted 😉)
He's there for comic relief! I love how intently he watches the chaff blowing away and yet looks so confused by the whole process 🤣
@@RootedRevival just tell Stanley what we tell grandma: it's magic!
Heyhey young lady, very nice video!
As it's now seven months since you posted, and ok i admit i only just found your channel, so apologies if i'm doubling up: my main reason for seed saving, beside the greater self-sufficiency it affords, is that over the generations the seeds/plants become more accustomed to local conditions, which obvs is a good thing.
I also like to grow as many perennial and self-seeding veggies as i can lay my hands on, so also have perennial Welsh onions (produces seeds) and Egyptian onions (produces bulbils). The Welsh ones here in S UK seem to be much more weather resistant than the Egyptian ones.
Late last summer was só wet here that onion and leek seeds started to sprout in the flower heads before they even ripened 😅
Looking forward to more from your channel!
🌱🌱🌱🌳🕊💚🌱🌱🌱
Just subscribed need more learning for PNW garden
Wil try to deliver that 👌
I saved some onion seeds from last year and there's a fair bit of flower head stuck on the seed still. Is it a must to take the dried flower head off when planting? Also, I had a leek go to flower close by and hoping they didn't cross-pollinate but I did not save any seeds. Any thoughts on what these onion seeds might produce? It's early Feb and I'm getting excited to get these going indoors!
Also do your green onions get woody if they flower? I’ve had carrots flower and get really woody
My green onions usually stay pretty enjoyable. However, bulb onions definitely get woody as the flower continues maturing.
As RR commented, plus: carrots, like all plants we don't eat the flower heads of (broccoli, Chinese flowering cabbage etc), are best to eat before any sign of flowering. Radishes would get woody too, lettuce would get bitter etc. Also v nearly all forageable greens are much more palatable and tender before flowering.
Happy gardening! 🌳🕊💚 🌱🌱🌱 🌱
My garlic has made seed when growing hardneck but I never hear about people growing garlic from seed. Have you ever tried that?
Ah yes! Garlic is an interesting one!
“True seed garlic” is what we refer to when a garlic flower produces an actual seed, very similar in appearance to onion seed. Garlic was thought to be sterile until the late 1800s and over the years, field tests of seed production have been very limited due to the amount of labor involved. It seems that wild garlic is largely the primary subset of garlic with the capability to produce true seeds. But many seed savers and garlic growers have been showing some productive results from their painstaking labors to produce true seed garlic varieties.
When looking at a garlic flower umbel, there are usually bulbils, which look like tiny garlic cloves, and true flowers. The bulbils allow for asexual reproduction. They can be harvested and planted. Usually the bulbils are used for reproduction by the plant. As the bulbils grow, the flowers die back naturally. However, if you harvest the bulbils carefully before they fully develop, you can retain the flowers and allow them to be pollinated. If it is successful and the variety is able to produce seeds, you’ll be rewarded for all your hard work with true garlic seed!
Fascinating, right?! Here’s some great in depth info if you want to geek out further 🤓 garlicseed.blogspot.com/p/growing-garlic-from-true-seed.html?m=1
@@RootedRevival 😂 it happened to me one year when I was super late harvesting my garlic and the seeds looked like purple kernels. I thought about trying to plant them but then didn’t for some reason. It was cool
@@RootedRevival I remember a hillside full of garlic in flower, above a rocky cliff in Italy. The ARS, USDA, have a pretty interesting article on garlic origins: "The origins and distribution of garlic: How many garlics are there?" 🌳🕊💚
TIL that onions are perennial-ish. I think I might grow a border to keep critters away.
That's a fantastic idea! Some will last many years! The green onion patch that I harvested the seeds from is in its 3rd season. Green onions, scallions, leeks and chives are especially long lasting. But I've found that even some bulb onions will last many years or resow themselves. It's a fun experiment to try out some different varieties and see how long they last in your garden. Plus, can you beat those flowers?! They bring so many pollinators and beneficial insects to the garden too!
@@RootedRevival I'm trying to figure out a cheap way to have alliums around. I'm also planning on planting the tiny garlic cloves from my seed garlic around my fruit trees and just letting them go crazy
@@eulerizeit Great idea! The high sulfur content in alliums can help deter some of the most common fruit tree pests. There have even been some studies that suggest it can help reduce apple and pear scab. It's really fun to see first hand how the different plants can benefit each other!
Do your initial seeds need to be heirloom or op
Yes, heirloom is the best.
How is it that no one shows how to sustain the onion over the winter in order to keep them viable to flower? They dont talk about how to water them during winter, how to cover them, nothing! Its "How to plant" "How to grow" "How to harvest" SKIP WINTERIZING "Oh, look seeds the next year so how to harvest seeds". Um...winterizing? Watering? Covering? Anything?
This video is about the seeds specifically, look up how to manage them over winter, I'm sure there's videos about that too.
is because one utuber copies another and another and another and so on...
At 3:30 ish in the video she talks about pulling them out of ground to winterize them but points out that a lot of areas can stay in the ground. So she does talk about it and made a small note. It’s not an issue for a lot of folks in areas, i also leave them in ground
I live in zone 6b and i just leave some of my onions outside to grow over the winter and they’ll either make a bigger bulb or flower the next summer. You could google how to do it in your own growing zone rather than complain on this video that it didnt cover what you wanted.
I live in North Idaho. It got down to negative 23 degrees this past winter. I didn’t do anything to my onion plants that I left in the ground. They all produced flowers! I have about ten, and they are all in flower. I didn’t even mulch.
Did you say 2 yrs