You can also enjoy the flowers while they last and leave the onions in the ground to collect seed for next season — an unexpected benefit! The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook is my latest book. Garden Betty is where I write about modern homesteading, farm-to-table cooking, and outdoor adventuring — all that encompass a life well-lived outdoors. After all, the secret to a good life is Read more ». Thank you for all of this information! I planted bulbs last year pre-Covid and then, with impromptu homeschooling, spouse now working from home, extra home repairs to complete and family to take care of- I forgot all about my garden!
How do we collect seeds? I accidentally left my onions in the ground. I thought they died but they all bolted. The way I harvested mine was to put a ziploc bag over the flower and gathered it closed at the base of the flower, cut the stalk, then shook the flower head and ruffled it with my fingers through the bag.
This is what I did last season and my onions are about to flower now. Thanks for the post! And then I always wondered how people got seeds from onions?! I love unintentional garden discoveries. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Our hardy heat-treated onion sets include:. They are all available to buy between autumn and spring. These special sets have been exposed to high temperatures in a controlled zone, making them extremely resistant to bolting.
Our heat-treated onion sets can be planted from mid-March. They arrive with us after a minimum of 12 weeks of heat treatment, ready for immediate despatch and immediate planting into pre-warmed soil. Plant the onions as described and keep the cloche or fleece on for the first few weeks. Remove once the plant tip has started growing. There are lots of varieties of onions and shallots available with good resistance to bolting.
These include:. If you notice that the onion and shallots that you're growing have started to bolt, there's no need to panic; here are some tips to help:. Hurry While Stocks Last! Close menu. Open Go Back. Grow your own. Garden Care. Veg Seeds. Veg Plants. Flower Seed. Flowering Bulbs. Same problem, greens start turning yellow and die They are definitely not overwatered - I never had this problem before, some of my friends are experiencing the same thing. Are we buying infected onion sets?
Sadly, this sounds like white rot pathogen. The pathogen persists as small, dormant structures sclerotia in the soil. Sclerotia remain dormant in the absence of a suitable host garlic, onion, or other Allium crops , and can survive in the soil for over 20 years. I did my onion in the fall , now they are in full bloom and very tall and the green tops are hard tuff like, Question is the top bloom are they seeds, onion bulb , if so how what do I do now!
Thank you all in advance for your advice! Happy gardening Diane. Last year I had to replant my onions 3 times because of the worms. Overnight the worms would get ahold of the green part and suck it down their holes, leaving the white part sticking straight up in the air. Do you have any suggestions other than checking onions every morning and replanting as necessary?
I thought worms were good for the garden, but man replanting gets old fast when you plant feet of onions! Just read your article about planting onions. It is quite informative. But I have a question. In one section, you recommend mulch, but in another day that mulch harbors maggots. Please explain. My grandpa loves to tease, and he likes to tell us you should always plant onions and Potatoes together. He says they do better that way in a dry year. When we'd ask him why, he'd say, because onions make the eyes water!
They make my eyes water, but not potato eyes!!! I find that I have much better luck growing beautiful larger onions with transplants. I plant in early spring, and again about weeks later to have young green onions longer. I plant them close together and thin them out and use as green onions until they are spaced about 5 - 6 inches apart. I then let them grow until they start to die back. I water my onions very well every day and they do great. I also love to grow my own garlic.
Garlic takes longer and I usually plant in the fall and harvest them in early June. I brought them inside, hoping to dry them out and start them this year. Any tricks for those? I believe the are Walla Walla Sweets. The dirt needs to be removed from around the onion to allow the onion to bulb. Onion maggots is my nemisus. I planted Walla Walla onions from transplants in the fall here in CA. This is the second year that my onions do not "bulb out".
They look like leeks with a very slight swelling at the root end. I do crop rotate. They are beautiful and green and look wonderful otherwise. What am I doing wrong? My onions are attacked by small insects looking like aphids and I have tried normal pesticides but they have proved ineffective during dry conditions, o please help me out if you have ever faced this challenge. I was given a 20 kg saco of red sun shalott sets and planted half, can i pickle the rest or would it not work for some reason.
Is this correct and what results can I expect? We recommend not planting onions deeper than 1. Deeper than that and they will struggle to do well. Where might I find "multiplying" onions When left to maturity they will reseed themselves.
As far as sweetness goes ,, it's partially dependent on how much you water. It is fine for them to be damp consistently but "wet" feet soggy is only tolerated on occasion.
I get mine from the big seed stores and they can be found on e-bay as well. HI,I have seedlings that were left in the nursery for now more than three months is there a possibility they can groe into big bulbs i can harvest from transplanting,. Will they burn like potatoes do? Also, some of the ones that tipped earliest were rotting out the root end, any tips for preventing that next year.
I've never seen Egyptian Walking Onions, but they look like regular ones so fat? Any info would be appreciated. My grandma in Arkansas always had me go to the garden to pull a few of these onions for meals. She'd always tell me to pull off the top bulbs and spread them back over the onion patch so they can make yet more onions.
As a kid in Llano Texas I had brought back a start of grandmas onions, and before long, I had my own onion patch that we ate from. But after we moved I lost these onions, till I found that you can order them on amazon. My order came in around November I think. It was a nice number of the tiny onions that Egyptian walking onions make at their tops. Before long I had my onions again.
This is here in Austin Texas now where I live, and I find that they die back in the heat of the summers. But if you keep them watered, they'll come back in the fall, and really grow in the spring. This far, I've not had much luck in keeping them nice and lush in the summer however. Anyone have any ideas as to how to keep them doing well in the summer please advise.
It gets very hot and dry here in Austin Texas.
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