Thanks. I really liked your nod to Charles Dowding and the fact that you took the idea of the dibber and improved upon it. It makes real sense that the drill bit pulls the soil out rather than compressing it and having the roots work harder to establish themselves.
I am not an onion lover but I do appreciate you sharing your knowledge / processes. I have lots of friends that are gardeners that I can pass this info along to....thanks again.
WHOAAAAA what and AWESOME CHANNEL!!! I'm a market farmer in Florida and I LOVE your show and methods awesome can wait to see more glad I found you guys!🤙🇺🇸✌️
Thank you for this video, very informative and helpful! I grow Borentana Chippolena onions along with the big guys, and garlic. Happily after a horrible winter in eastern Colorado, my garlic is up and the onions are going in soon. Happy Gardening!!
I love your Chanel. I’m so glad you are in Washington. I’m in western Washington, Marysville Lake Stevens area. You must be Dutch because your garden and yard is so clean and in order.
Big thanks for the video…I had some pretty small onions this year and will look to implement your method. I’m from Spokane and would love to come down and help a day or two when you plant next year!
I’m a new subscriber and I’m so glad I found your channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have to watch all of your previous videos because I’m sure they is a treasure of knowledge in them as well. 😊Happy planting and I wish you a bountiful harvest.
I'd love to see that trimming/peeling/washing/storing system you use for storing your onions. Great video. I have a larger auger also for planting plants like tomatoes and peppers, works so well! I need to go buy some onion starts, was trying to grow my own but fell behind this year :)
Mr. Dan and Luke, I just found your channel.GREAT Knowledge! I an a rancher's wife in northern Montana...we have 20* and 6 inches of snow today, so no onion planting here! Ha Ha! I do have a suggestion, if you will not be offended. Perhaps you might think of welding an extension on your drill bit so you do not have to bend over so far? My back hurts watching you. BUT fresh onions are so worth it! Thank you!
No offense at all! I think it's good exercise to bend while gardening and some of us have further to go than others,it keeps the lymph system working better besides😁 Thanks for watching and for the kind words and suggestions! Have a blessed day!
I am fairly new to gardening. I know it's a little late in the starting season. I just moved in in December, so nothing is prepped. Can you give some tips as to what I can and shouldn't do, or a video on starting in the spring. Love your videos, keep it up! 😊
I can’t plant quite yet, but I’ll definitely try this method. Thank you. Western Wyoming is still too cold. We are getting there. Daffodils are just starting to bloom.
I really really want to see what these look like at harvest. PLEASE do a harvest video! Also… I’ve been storing Walla Walla over winter here in Idaho. Any thoughts? Didn’t you say they don’t store?
I can show you a picture of last season if you want,not sure how to do that though. If you are on Facebook I've posted a picture on there under Dan Sutherland.
I have a bad back, so I do above ground gardening. My husband made me a special 5 gallon bucket to sit on. I keep my seat cushion as well as most of the garden supplies I need in it. I also have a cane dibble he made. It helps me tremendously, less likely to fall to. It’s hard on old bones to be bent over for long times gardening. I just give it a push to make my hole and toss the plant in. Then I use my dibble to cover my plant with dirt, all while standing up mostly. And if I happen to see a snake I’ll have something in hand.
I love this! I plant a lot of onions, this will make it so much faster. Thank you! I grow AilsaCraig heirloom sweet onions, they keep pretty well for sweets.
G'day fellas, this video just popped up in my feed, really enjoyed the content and the presentation, quick question about the timing of planting, you say it's March there, what season is that for you? It's March here which is the start of Autumn for us and I'm just about to sow onion seed, are onions a winter crop for you?
Could you try planting garlic cloves in November this way with the organic fertilizer mix directly in the hole. It won’t burn being organic. I might try this year.
Thank you for your wonderful videos gentlemen!! What a benefit to humanity sharing the knowledge from this wise man and saving it for generations to come! So often a huge amount of knowledge “slips away” with our past generations.👍👍
The bales had been sitting out in the rain etc. for at least a couple years so the seeds sprouted and then dried out because of no moisture since it doesn't rain here all summer, so now there's very few viable seeds left to germinate😊
Just found your channel and started binging your videos!! Love the content. Question though you mentioned starting onions now based on moon cycle?! Can you explain this a little more? I am in Minnesota or zone 4b, so it’s definitely not time to plant here… so I’m trying to figure out the “when” to plant a little more 😊 thank you!!
Thanks for watching! Onion plants can handle lots of cold freezing weather but if there's snow on the ground of course you'll need to wait,but once the ground isn't frozen you can plant onion plants. For more info on the moon phase planting I'd suggest that you buy that book that's linked in the description and run with that.
Adding more notes, if I read all my notes and follow them. I am gonna be a world champion grower also. Great informative video again. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
I was surprised how deeply those were planted but he knows what he's doing that's for sure. I wonder if later he removes soil so that just the bulb is above ground?
Just found your channel, love the content! Id like to know if you would share the mixture, in ratio, you applied to those onions. Great stuff keep up the good work, look forward to more of you knowledge!
Hello Luke. On this presentation I did not see the list of ingredients that your dad added to the onions. It took about 5 times of playing back to write down all that your dad listed. Maybe you can add on the screen the list and amount use, as you have done in other videos, if not list it in your description where we can copy it. TY
You could pause the video to write the info down. 🤗 We are grateful for the additional views though! There's a reason I didn't provide shortcuts - we need more views. This helps us make more $ and enables us able to make more videos for you faster. Right now, I am losing money producing & editing the videos. I make much much more doing my normal work, and I have a large family to support. If TH-cam paid better, I could dedicate more time and energy, but that is not possible at the moment. 😊 Blessings!
Love your videos !!! you have taught me so much already. I am going to watch every single video you have. I need a specially a lot of help with onions I can’t seem to grow onions.
Patterson has been for quite a few yrs but I'm trying a new one this yr and they're looking really good so far,we'll let you know how they end up. Blessings to you!
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork Thank you! I'll start looking for that one to plant and give it a try, and looking forward to hearing about the new one you are trying :)
How do you know what to use to fertilize different things? I'm a fairly new gardener and don't know how to determine what each one needs. I'm really enjoying your videos and that you are bold in your witness for Yahweh.
Thank you for this video, I live in NH and my onions didn’t grow much at all. I planted them with my garlic and I think the garlic over took the plants. I was also told that you shouldn’t cover your onion sets with much soil! What are your thoughts on this please!
First off I would never recommend sets,use either starts or seeds! Sets are very likely to go to seed since it will be their second growing season, I don't understand why anyone would buy sets.
I was wondering if you have a video on radishes. For the last several years, I’ve been growing radishes and they have not bulbed. I know it’s not planting depth, so I was wondering if it was a lack of a certain amendment.
We haven't made a video on radishes yet. What kind of soil do you have? Have you put any kind of fertilizer or amendments in the soil? Hard to help without a photo or more info. 😊
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork Every year I use organic compost and bone meal in my raised beds; sprinkling it over the top and working it in slightly. I use seed starter to start the seeds. The soil is loose and friable, and has been amended for many years of gardening. The radishes I've been trying to grow are French Breakfast. It's only in the last 5 years or so that I've had a problem.
I would try putting either kelp,greesand, or sulfate of potash on the beds. Radishes are a root crop and need potassium for root size,I'd probably give them the kelp and SOP together as the sop is faster acting and the kelp is slower but also brings many additional benefits with it. Blessings!
Will you please explain why Mar 15 (First Quarter moon) is "time" to plant root crops? I'm somewhat familiar with planting by moon phase, but thought Full Moon (Mar 23) is the time to plant root crops? Thanks for the tips, I look forward to planting my onions soon!
Easiest way to explain it is purchase the book on Amazon that is linked in the video. This isn't the place to go into details as there's too much to it. Thanks so much for watching and hopefully you subscribed😊
I knew I was putting off planting my onions for a reason. I needed to see your technique first. 😊 Question: Dixondale recommends planting only an inch deep so they bulb nicely when it’s time. You went deeper than I have in the past. Do you do anything to them when they begin to bulb or do they do ok on their own?
They do fine on their own! Maybe if you have really hard packed soil you may want to plant a little shallower but I've never had any issues since with no-till my soil is nice and light.
I wouldn't, there's better things to use as mulch if that is what your trying to do. Clean hay as in absolutely no herbicide used in growing it or old straw that's been left out in the weather for a couple yrs so weed seeds have germinated and won't be a nightmare for you.
We will be publishing a new garden tour video soon where you can see the onions that we planted and that this is not necessary. We did not do any spooning and the onions that we planted deep with the drill method in one of our prior videos are sitting nicely almost on top of the soil.
Great video, I will have to try this. I have trouble with worms pulling my newly planted onion plants underground at night, have you ever had that problem?
I like to just make a big furrow with a hoe, place the onions then backfill with the back of a metal rake. This seems a little too back breaking for me but perhaps good for compact spaces
These are organic amendments and not really fertilizer as such,the plants can't take it up until the biology breaks it down, so there's no burning of anything, it's not like synthetic fertilizer which you wouldn't dare do that! Thanks 4 watching and have a blessed day!
This guy is an expert for sure. But the money most would have to spend on all his fertilizer recipes and stuff would cost the price of a 50lb bag of onions. LOL
Hey, someone finally asked the question! 😅 No. We are not, have not been, and never will be Mennonites! We're simply Christians that read and believe everything in our Bibles. Saved by God's mercy and grace! 😊🙏❤️ Love your great question! Keep it up! 👍
Thanks. I really liked your nod to Charles Dowding and the fact that you took the idea of the dibber and improved upon it. It makes real sense that the drill bit pulls the soil out rather than compressing it and having the roots work harder to establish themselves.
Yes, it makes nice uncompacted holes. Thanks for watching and have a blessed day!
Charles plants into compost, not earth. A different tool for each job
He's still compacting the growing medium.
It still packs the soil/compost down.
Thank you gentlemen. You have quickly became one of my favorite channels. I hope your still planning on opening a store.
Terrific! Yes! We're working on it!
What a great way to get the reluctant male into the gardening game 😅
Great information fellas. Going to try this next fall with my onions. Often think folks overthink gardening and the storage of their crops.
I am not an onion lover but I do appreciate you sharing your knowledge / processes. I have lots of friends that are gardeners that I can pass this info along to....thanks again.
Thanks for watching! Maybe someday you'll enjoy growing onions🤣
WHOAAAAA what and AWESOME CHANNEL!!! I'm a market farmer in Florida and I LOVE your show and methods awesome can wait to see more glad I found you guys!🤙🇺🇸✌️
👍Glad you like our channel! Happy to have you here!
Great stuff gentleman, look forward to seeing the process of how you store your onions. Be cool to see a curing process for potatoes too!
Thank you for this video, very informative and helpful! I grow Borentana Chippolena onions along with the big guys, and garlic. Happily after a horrible winter in eastern Colorado, my garlic is up and the onions are going in soon. Happy Gardening!!
You're welcome! Glad your garlic survived! 😊 Glad you like our content too!
Genius! I grew onions from seed that are ready to be planted-very timely video for me-Thank you!
Excellent video. Thank you and God bless you and your family
Thank you! God bless you as well! 🙏😊
I love your Chanel. I’m so glad you are in Washington. I’m in western Washington, Marysville Lake Stevens area. You must be Dutch because your garden and yard is so clean and in order.
Dad loves a tidy garden! Glad you enjoy our videos!
Thank you guys. Such clear and easy to understand video. Great job. 1st time here.
Welcome! Glad you found our content valuable!
I’m going to make that mix for my sorry looking onions! Thank you.
Glad to help!
Big thanks for the video…I had some pretty small onions this year and will look to implement your method. I’m from Spokane and would love to come down and help a day or two when you plant next year!
Your method is much easier and faster. Thank you for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
I’m a new subscriber and I’m so glad I found your channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have to watch all of your previous videos because I’m sure they is a treasure of knowledge in them as well. 😊Happy planting and I wish you a bountiful harvest.
I'd love to see that trimming/peeling/washing/storing system you use for storing your onions. Great video. I have a larger auger also for planting plants like tomatoes and peppers, works so well! I need to go buy some onion starts, was trying to grow my own but fell behind this year :)
Thanks for the suggestion for a future video! Thank you too for watching our videos and hope you subscribe if you haven't already 😁
Mr. Dan and Luke, I just found your channel.GREAT Knowledge! I an a rancher's wife in northern Montana...we have 20* and 6 inches of snow today, so no onion planting here! Ha Ha! I do have a suggestion, if you will not be offended. Perhaps you might think of welding an extension on your drill bit so you do not have to bend over so far? My back hurts watching you. BUT fresh onions are so worth it! Thank you!
No offense at all! I think it's good exercise to bend while gardening and some of us have further to go than others,it keeps the lymph system working better besides😁
Thanks for watching and for the kind words and suggestions! Have a blessed day!
dramm wands are my favourite as well !
Yes, great product! 👍
very smart idea!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
Thank you for the informative video gentlemen. Have a blessed day
Thank you! You have a blessed day as well! 😊
I am fairly new to gardening. I know it's a little late in the starting season. I just moved in in December, so nothing is prepped. Can you give some tips as to what I can and shouldn't do, or a video on starting in the spring.
Love your videos, keep it up! 😊
Great video guys!
You're welcome! Glad you liked it!
Beautiful farm!
Thank you! Thanks for watching and hope that the videos are a help!
That was good, thank you :)
Your most welcome ! Thanks for watching and commenting, we're loving all the feedback!
Thank you, I really needed this information.
amazing!! can't wait to plant onions next year,
I can’t plant quite yet, but I’ll definitely try this method. Thank you. Western Wyoming is still too cold. We are getting there. Daffodils are just starting to bloom.
Thank you for another great lesson
You're welcome!
Love the videos lads keep up the good work
Good to hear! We'll do our best!
I really really want to see what these look like at harvest. PLEASE do a harvest video!
Also… I’ve been storing Walla Walla over winter here in Idaho. Any thoughts? Didn’t you say they don’t store?
I can show you a picture of last season if you want,not sure how to do that though. If you are on Facebook I've posted a picture on there under Dan Sutherland.
I have a bad back, so I do above ground gardening. My husband made me a special 5 gallon bucket to sit on. I keep my seat cushion as well as most of the garden supplies I need in it. I also have a cane dibble he made. It helps me tremendously, less likely to fall to. It’s hard on old bones to be bent over for long times gardening. I just give it a push to make my hole and toss the plant in. Then I use my dibble to cover my plant with dirt, all while standing up mostly. And if I happen to see a snake I’ll have something in hand.
I love this! I plant a lot of onions, this will make it so much faster. Thank you! I grow AilsaCraig heirloom sweet onions, they keep pretty well for sweets.
You're welcome! Thanks for your great comment! Blessings! 😊
that is quite deep, the holes you plant them in. not going to question that but have never planted that deep...blessings
Works great, they are bulbing now and some are about 6" diameter. Blessings!
G'day fellas, this video just popped up in my feed, really enjoyed the content and the presentation, quick question about the timing of planting, you say it's March there, what season is that for you? It's March here which is the start of Autumn for us and I'm just about to sow onion seed, are onions a winter crop for you?
Could you try planting garlic cloves in November this way with the organic fertilizer mix directly in the hole. It won’t burn being organic. I might try this year.
Thank you for your wonderful videos gentlemen!!
What a benefit to humanity sharing the knowledge from this wise man and saving it for generations to come! So often a huge amount of knowledge “slips away” with our past generations.👍👍
You're welcome! We're praying it helps people physically and spiritually. Take care! 😊
How did you prevent the straw seeds from sprouting? This has always been a problem for me. Thanks and I really enjoy your videos
The bales had been sitting out in the rain etc. for at least a couple years so the seeds sprouted and then dried out because of no moisture since it doesn't rain here all summer, so now there's very few viable seeds left to germinate😊
Nice, I will try this. Thanks!!
Just found your channel and started binging your videos!! Love the content. Question though you mentioned starting onions now based on moon cycle?! Can you explain this a little more? I am in Minnesota or zone 4b, so it’s definitely not time to plant here… so I’m trying to figure out the “when” to plant a little more 😊 thank you!!
Thanks for watching! Onion plants can handle lots of cold freezing weather but if there's snow on the ground of course you'll need to wait,but once the ground isn't frozen you can plant onion plants. For more info on the moon phase planting I'd suggest that you buy that book that's linked in the description and run with that.
Could you please give me the recipe for the onion fertilizer?
Adding more notes, if I read all my notes and follow them. I am gonna be a world champion grower also.
Great informative video again.
Thanks so much for sharing with us.
You're welcome!
I was surprised how deeply those were planted but he knows what he's doing that's for sure. I wonder if later he removes soil so that just the bulb is above ground?
It looks deeper than it actually is. Also, the onions kind of swell up out of the soil a little as they grow. Happy gardening!
Just found your channel, love the content! Id like to know if you would share the mixture, in ratio, you applied to those onions. Great stuff keep up the good work, look forward to more of you knowledge!
It was listed in the video, thanks for watching and have a marvelous day!
Simply the best way to plant onions. Wonderful sharing of information. Thanks fellas
You're welcome! Glad you found it valuable!
What is the mix you are using the onions?
Need more info on that filler material please.
Tell me you are an OTR or COTA… love it… great video 👍
😂Had to look it up! Glad you like our content! Happy gardening!
Hello Luke. On this presentation I did not see the list of ingredients that your dad added to the onions. It took about 5 times of playing back to write down all that your dad listed. Maybe you can add on the screen the list and amount use, as you have done in other videos, if not list it in your description where we can copy it. TY
You could pause the video to write the info down. 🤗 We are grateful for the additional views though! There's a reason I didn't provide shortcuts - we need more views. This helps us make more $ and enables us able to make more videos for you faster. Right now, I am losing money producing & editing the videos. I make much much more doing my normal work, and I have a large family to support. If TH-cam paid better, I could dedicate more time and energy, but that is not possible at the moment. 😊 Blessings!
Love your videos !!! you have taught me so much already. I am going to watch every single video you have. I need a specially a lot of help with onions I can’t seem to grow onions.
Great! Glad you're learning! 👍
What problems are you having with growing onions?
What is your favorite "storage" onion? Thank you, just saw how large your walla walla onions are in your recent video...WOW!
Patterson has been for quite a few yrs but I'm trying a new one this yr and they're looking really good so far,we'll let you know how they end up. Blessings to you!
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork Thank you! I'll start looking for that one to plant and give it a try, and looking forward to hearing about the new one you are trying :)
How do you know what to use to fertilize different things? I'm a fairly new gardener and don't know how to determine what each one needs.
I'm really enjoying your videos and that you are bold in your witness for Yahweh.
Genius maybe I will use my vintage hand drill to put small air holes in the grass.
What’s you can you share your back fill material recipe? Kelp,…
Happy to do that for you! I'll get back to you hopefully later today!
👍👍🇺🇸🙏 thank you for sharing. Where are you located...zone??
We are in zone 7a-b SE WASHINGTON
I like it, thnk you
You're welcome! Glad you like our content!
Thank you for this video, I live in NH and my onions didn’t grow much at all. I planted them with my garlic and I think the garlic over took the plants. I was also told that you shouldn’t cover your onion sets with much soil! What are your thoughts on this please!
First off I would never recommend sets,use either starts or seeds! Sets are very likely to go to seed since it will be their second growing season, I don't understand why anyone would buy sets.
I was wondering if you have a video on radishes. For the last several years, I’ve been growing radishes and they have not bulbed. I know it’s not planting depth, so I was wondering if it was a lack of a certain amendment.
We haven't made a video on radishes yet. What kind of soil do you have? Have you put any kind of fertilizer or amendments in the soil?
Hard to help without a photo or more info. 😊
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork Every year I use organic compost and bone meal in my raised beds; sprinkling it over the top and working it in slightly. I use seed starter to start the seeds. The soil is loose and friable, and has been amended for many years of gardening. The radishes I've been trying to grow are French Breakfast. It's only in the last 5 years or so that I've had a problem.
I would try putting either kelp,greesand, or sulfate of potash on the beds. Radishes are a root crop and need potassium for root size,I'd probably give them the kelp and SOP together as the sop is faster acting and the kelp is slower but also brings many additional benefits with it. Blessings!
I just found your channel and I love it.....what zone are you in??
We are in zone 7a-b SE WASHINGTON
Will you please explain why Mar 15 (First Quarter moon) is "time" to plant root crops? I'm somewhat familiar with planting by moon phase, but thought Full Moon (Mar 23) is the time to plant root crops? Thanks for the tips, I look forward to planting my onions soon!
Easiest way to explain it is purchase the book on Amazon that is linked in the video. This isn't the place to go into details as there's too much to it. Thanks so much for watching and hopefully you subscribed😊
I knew I was putting off planting my onions for a reason. I needed to see your technique first. 😊 Question: Dixondale recommends planting only an inch deep so they bulb nicely when it’s time. You went deeper than I have in the past. Do you do anything to them when they begin to bulb or do they do ok on their own?
They do fine on their own! Maybe if you have really hard packed soil you may want to plant a little shallower but I've never had any issues since with no-till my soil is nice and light.
Are these just regular green onions like you’d get chives from that turned into regular yellow onions?
No. These are Walla Walla Sweet Onions in particular.
Hi. Great video. Would saw dust be a good thing to put around vegetable plants? Thanks for your time.
I wouldn't, there's better things to use as mulch if that is what your trying to do. Clean hay as in absolutely no herbicide used in growing it or old straw that's been left out in the weather for a couple yrs so weed seeds have germinated and won't be a nightmare for you.
Can you tell me a replacement for Greensand? I have ordered it but unfortunately there is a shipping delay. Thanks.
We probably can ship some to you. We just don't have the e-commerce storefront up yet. How soon do you need it?
Yesterday. 😂 How would I order it from you? I will gladly do so.
Is this the same method you use for the bulbing onions? Do you spoon them?
Please explain what you mean by spooning them.
you take a spoon or a trowel and dig out around the bulb so it is exposed to the sun. but you leave the roots covered
We will be publishing a new garden tour video soon where you can see the onions that we planted and that this is not necessary. We did not do any spooning and the onions that we planted deep with the drill method in one of our prior videos are sitting nicely almost on top of the soil.
Great video, I will have to try this. I have trouble with worms pulling my newly planted onion plants underground at night, have you ever had that problem?
Fortunately I've never had that problem!
Maybe voles?
What was the diameter of the auger bit?
1-1/8" diameter, thanks for watching and have a blessed day!
I like to just make a big furrow with a hoe, place the onions then backfill with the back of a metal rake. This seems a little too back breaking for me but perhaps good for compact spaces
I thought onions are to be planted shallow. Do you get large onions?
Yes I get large onions,that is if you consider 6" in diameter is large,maybe that isn't large for you though.
They really aren't planted as deep as it looks in the video, it's kinda deceptive.
What is green sand
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensand
Happy gardening!
You can get a longer drill bit so you don't have to bend
👍Great idea! Or an extension! Blessings!
Again, how deep is that?
Maybe 1-1/2". It looks deeper than what it actually is.
This video is 4 months after I planted my onions. Almost ready to havest
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I'm surprised the fertilizer doesn't burn the onion starts being applied directly into the hole
These are organic amendments and not really fertilizer as such,the plants can't take it up until the biology breaks it down, so there's no burning of anything, it's not like synthetic fertilizer which you wouldn't dare do that! Thanks 4 watching and have a blessed day!
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It's perfect, perfectly perfect.
Unfortunately, 3/4 of the planet populated doesn't have a fraction of your budget.
Anyway, you do a great job.
This guy is an expert for sure. But the money most would have to spend on all his fertilizer recipes and stuff would cost the price of a 50lb bag of onions. LOL
lucky to have a dad like yours. i have to ask, are you mennonites ?
Hey, someone finally asked the question! 😅 No. We are not, have not been, and never will be Mennonites! We're simply Christians that read and believe everything in our Bibles. Saved by God's mercy and grace! 😊🙏❤️
Love your great question! Keep it up! 👍
@@GardeningHomesteadingWoodwork Thanks for the reply!
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Enjoy your ole daddy. He Wont always be around. Then youll understand.