THE ULTIMATE TOP 10 LIST for Growing Onions in the Backyard Garden
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- We've never had red onions make it this long into spring, but ours are finally showing signs that they're ready to harvest. Join us as we harvest some absolute monster red onions and reveal the results from our trials comparing a couple different varieties.
We'll also share our top 10 onion growing tips that we've learned over the years as we've grown many different varieties with a number of different techniques. If you've ever had issues growing onions, you need to see this!
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I followed your onion growing directions last year and it was the first time I had grocery store (and even bigger) sized onions. You definitely give great advice here!
Same for me too. People kept saying it was a bad year for onions in FL. Meanwhile, I was having the best year yet. 😂
Very informative video and you are a very good teacher. I love Vidalia onions do you live close to that farm? I lived in Valdosta when my daughter was going to college. I thought Warner robins was hot, I thought I was going to die in Valdosta. Good video 👍
Brooklyn's hat is adorable! A spaghetti raised bed would be fun to do in a long bed. A bed full of baby's breath would look great as a divider or pattern making bed. Actually, I had a friend that planted a block of smaller ones and put a different color of flower in each one to create a rainbow garden. (I feel a little silly giving you experts garden ideas!) 👒💐🌈🌞
We always appreciate any suggestions. Thanks Laura!
Would LOVE the idea of raised bed gardening! A lot of people don't have the in ground space like you are blessed with, and do strictly raised bed, so they would learn a lot!
The benefit of your dog rolling in an herb is that it helps keep them smelling nice. 😊
Basil is good for pesto?
I liked and subscribed. I been backyard gardening over 60 years. Im 78 years old now and about 10 years ago, I started using raised beds and I wished I'd started sooner. As far as your fire ring, sweet potatoes would be great in there PLUS, you would have some beautiful foliage,
That's an impressive onion harvest..! Well played, sir.
Thanks Corey!
I’d love to see y’all do a raised bed garden. You can get so much more creative with raised beds. I have 20 and love them!
Should be fun!
I didn't know red onions could get that big! Thanks!
Hey Travis. Great video with lots of good info on onion growing. I’ve never had a lot of luck growing onions because I followed some bad advice. Can’t wait to use your checklist and give them another shot. BIG fan of your raised bed idea and I think it makes a lot of sense. One option you may want to consider is to use fabric grow bags as your container. They are relatively inexpensive, come in a variety of sizes, easy to move, and make a great container for growing vegetables. Looking forward to Friday’s vid!!
Thanks Tim!
I'm gardening strictly in fabric bags they work great!!😅
First of, thank y'all for the wealth of knowledge that y'all are sharing with the world. You mention that you prefer to plant your onions in November. My question is, duo you start your seeds in November or transplant the small plants in November? If you're transplanting them in November, when do you start your seeds? Thanks in advanced.
We start our seeds in the greenhouse in mid-September and then transplant in November.
Great info regarding planting onions. Love to see raised bed video. So good to see Titus and Mrs. Titus steels the show.
Thanks Karen!
Been watching your videos for years and can say as a old Ky guy here you are without a doubt giving the best advice on gardening on the internet in my opinion.I have learned a lifetime of knowledge from your videos. Semper Fi
We appreciate it Kevin! And thanks for your service!
Raised beds are great for older gardeners, like me, since we don’t have to bend so far to garden. I have a small in ground garden this year for okra, corn, pole beans and cukes, but most of my crops are in raised beds or containers.
I might actually start growing bush beans again if I had a long raised bed. lol
You’re living a good life, everything are healthy around you. Fresh vegetables and fresh air.
This is out first year to grow red onions in our raised beds. I'm following your advice on growing them so I hope mine are as awesome as yours!! Great tips Travis, thank you!! 🧅🌱🧅🌱🧅
I 100% appreciated the top 10 list you provided. This is a great highlight in this video. Would love to see more of this style through out other items in the garden. Great Job!
Thanks!
I would love ❤️ to see you use some raised flower beds. I have had a major back injury and would like to see an option for not bending. A 🪴 garden to focus on not bending. 🌱
Thanks for your input. I'll see what we can put together.
You are a great teacher! Thank you for this good information!
You are so welcome!
Raised beds would be a great thing to see you tackle. It would help those of us with smaller gardens . Thanks so much love your content
Noted!
I value all of you onion tips ! Thank you! This is my first year growing them from seed am excited to see how it goes !!!
I have did just what you have said and those babys are growing. Thanks ,
my brother is going to be sad when he see mine.
Hi Travis, up here in SWMO I live on a hill top with nothing but rock on the under side. So all my gardening is done in them big mineral tubs and I love it, I can sit in my little chair and do all my planting and pick in comfort. When you get older like I am you got to cheat all you can lol.
I grow mostly raised beds n pots so it would interest me. Up here in zone 3 frost free dates are early June until late September. Raised beds n pots the soil warms much earlier getting me up n growing sooner. 👍👍
Makes sense. Even that few feet of height makes a huge difference on soil warmth.
Dude.....I just tried your pickled red onion recipe on your website and it's got me licking my ears like a crackhead....thanks
Glad you like it!
This was great, thank you! I’m growing my first bed of onions, nothing major, just a couple dozen since I’m learning. One thing I can’t seem to find out is how often to fertilize with the balanced fertilizer at the beginning? and then how often with the Nitro when you switch?? I appreciate your help!
We do a balanced granular fertilizer at planting, then give them AgroThrive (liquid balanced) a few weeks after planting. After that, it's just nitrogen -- usually 2-3x throughout the growout -- about a month or so apart.
Seems like I remember you off of HOSS.. I wondered why you were no longer on there. Now it’s boring. I like how you show what you’re doing in the garden it gives more of a visual. Glad I come across your new channel. 😁
Welcome Shannon! Glad you found us!
Thanks for the onion growing tips, I've been trying to figure out what I did wrong. I'm looking forward to growing from seed with you later this year!
Should be fun!
Whoa! Those are some big onions!
PS, I love it when Brooklyn shows up, she always cracks me up!
Thanks!
Thanks for the onion information. We have a longer growing season so still have onions in the ground. Enjoying your channel so much!🌺
Awesome! Thank you!
I thought this was about pumpkins again but lord, them are some huge onions!! Great job!! And good advice!!👍👍💪💪👍👍
Those red onions (Chianti and Red Rock) are beautiful!. Thanks for sharing the results of your experiments. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/18/2022.
Always good to see you here Kate!
we use sheets of durarock cut to 2' height as raised bed material.
Your raised bed spot would also be great for ginger
It sure would!
As soon as I seen your picture of those red onions... I was buying them!! You have really made me a better gardener , I monkey see monkey do when it comes to your planting time and tips. I live near Orange beach , AL and gargen in raised beds . And buying metal is cheaper than wood , I made all my raised beds over the winter when all the garden beds were on clearance. Again thank you so much for what you do
Hope the Chianti onions do as well for you as they did for us!
@@LazyDogFarm I think they will. I got massive onions with the Dixondale onions with your pointers.. I can only imagine these
Thanks Travis. I saw a lot of comments on the boiled peanuts. Especially the sharp geographical contrast for experience /awareness. Fascinating. It is obvious that everyone, including me, are waiting for the ultimate detailed boiled peanut recipe in the future! Ha! Good job, Sir. Chuck in Jensen Beach.
If we're able to grow some, we'll definitely show how we prepare them.
Thanks Travis, saving this video, and sharing of course. Really good one.
I also used water soluble sulfur mixed in a watering can. I would give the onions a good drink and they seem to really do good and taste out of this world great.
Thank ya Travis. I have my onions in a raised bed. I companioned planted with bell pepper. So far so good!
yes on the raised beds
Thanks for sharing this information. I am going to follow these instructions and see if I can be successful. Thanks again.
Yes, I would love to see you plant out some raised beds.
Great onion harvest...maybe you can help me with an approach on my biggest garden problem. I grow 1000 onion, leek and shallot transplants and replant 180 garlic cloves each year. The garlic does great but everything else gets destroyed by the onion fly larvae. They grow great until mid May when the fly lays the eggs and the larvae attack the roots and end up killing every one. I have used DE and triple threat beneficial nematodes and even started five kiddie pools with new soil on the opposite end of my property but the fly found them. I have read everything I can find and advise ranges from DE, nematodes, removing the soil and solarizing the soil. Any advise? I am ready to give up on alliums except for garlic.
Never dealt with onion fly larvae. We've been using a product called Azera that's a very broad-spectrum, organic insecticide. I bet it would take care of them.
Very nice video. Guao. Those are reallly nice and big onion bulbs. Amazing. Congratulations and thank you for sharing your knowledge Sir.
Thanks Jose!
Cheap "raised bed", so long as you don't expect it to last forever: Get some 4x2 welded wire, about 30" tall, cut a length of it 13' long, and wire the ends together. This will give you a ring roughtly 4' in diameter. Use a decent quality landscape fabric to line the interior--a 4' wide strip will give some overlap on the outside. Fill part way with some sort of fill material, the rest with your soil mix. Eventually the UV will break down the landscape fabric, but it should last at least a couple of years before you need to redo the bed.
Thanks so much for the tips on growing onions I love growing big onions
Growing big onions is more fun than growing little onions! Proven fact! lol
Thanks for the great tips ! Can’t wait for November!
I like the raised bed idea. You could try out different heights and configurations. That's what I was going to do in my backyard until I broke my ankle. Now I'm just doing grow bags and pots. I still got 5 raised beds to put together later this summer.
By the way you have upped my onion game a huge amount! Thanks!
Great to hear!
I harvest onion tops separately and freeze for soup base and crock pot flavor instead of letting them get brown. It also stops the onion from bolting and I leave mine in the ground 2 years or we only get tiny onions here. I only have a small area for onions this year I am going to grow more tomatoes.
I totally agree with your 10 tips on growing onions 💯.. my red onions are doing exactly the same as yours, still growing and the biggest i ever grown, pulling them up Friday. Raised bed experiment would be nice!!! ✌🏻
Great to hear about your onions!
Tip 4 is definitely valuable. I tried planting onions last year based on when another UA-camr planted theirs. What I didn’t realize was they were in a complete different growing part of the USA. While I was watching this I got to thinking how about a video on all your favorite varieties of what you plant as far as production, taste, storage
We did a couple of those last year towards the end of the year. We'll try and do that again at the end of the season with a recap on our favorite varieties that we've grown.
@@LazyDogFarm your right I forgot
Curious if you have a video on curing and storing onions....
I definitely had issues.
Love your videos, I've been gardening since I was a child and my Daddy had a garden (I am in my seventies) and I am always learning something new from you. Thank you. Oh, I am ordering the Chianti onions to plant in November. I live in North East part of Georgia and this will be the first time I have planted onions in the fall. I usually plant Texas yellow granx but I want to plant a different yellow onion, do you have a suggestion?
Im always taking green tops to.cook with
Great video!!!
Thank you!!
Great video
I have 2 raised beds in my garden. 1 for strawberries & the other for asparagus & carrots. Can’t grow carrots in my garden cause the soil is too hard. I also have some perennial herbs in them. Think it is a great idea for u to start some more raised beds👍
You're pronouncing that name just fine! Like the wine!
hello, I love your onions! I live in intermediate day lenght so I'm a little different haha!
but I would love it if you could cut open one of those or 2 of those onions and either taste or cook them for flavor? thanks!
I made that mistake this year of trimming the onion tops when I was planting, and had a bunch die from the stress. Lesson learned.
Yep. Good thing we didn't do that with all of ours.
I would love to see some raised beds in your garden.
Excellent onion discussion, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think all your onion tips make a lot of sense! I was wondering, did you ever try to remove the soil around the bulb to let it grow larger? Or maybe you already plant them shallow? I live in a super high wind area so I think I sow deep to make the onions stronger against the wind. I’ve read that maybe I should remove the soil a bit after they’ve established and I thought that made sense! What do you think?
Ours always find their way to the top of the soil, so I've never bothered with removing soil around them.
Great idea, raised beds just adds another dimenison to the garden.
I think it will!
Onion size depends on many variables, climate, cultural practices, fertilizer, chemical, or organic.
Hybrids may be the way to go in the south, in the north it’s been mixed results for me.
I get onion starts from Dixondale farms. The Alia’s Craig variety can get to 6 lbs and 8 inch diameter. It’s not cut and dried that hybrids are always bigger. Ailsa Craig is open pollinated.
If a person grows from seed you are dependent on that seed company every year. For having your own seed , it may be wise to have some OP in case of seed shortage or it gets dropped from production. I prefer organic growing, better taste without. Chemical dependence.
My top priority is fairly decent size, taste and storage . If long storage is your goal , hybrid may be the way to go.
For vege seed, I prefer OP for many reasons, seed sovereignty being the top one.
I love raised beds. And it is of the only option for folks.
Beautiful onions T! Some of the biggest reds I've ever seen! Solid advice on that top 10 list too! I haven't bought any seed from NE Seed in years, may have to give those Chianti reds a try! There goes Mama trying to be practical and use common sense on determining how much of something to plant! ;)
Practical goes out the window when I'm in that greenhouse and have an entire bale of seed starting mix and a bunch of seed starting trays staring at me. lol
@@LazyDogFarm That's as it should be! That's how I end up with 230 onion and 93 tomato plants! My wife tries to assign logic as well.......it never gets through!
I would love to see raised bed gardening for us elderly women. It would sure help me.
Look at aluminum raised beds 32” high
Would be awesome content as well as a good experience for you
I think so too!
Man, my red creoles bolted right before they gained any size on the bulb. Also my Texas Super Sweets didn't get much size this year. My first year in Northern Louisiana, but I had good luck with others while in Montana. I'm going to try again this late fall, maybe.
Nice to see how yours turned out. I'll try out some of your pointers.
Red Creoles are bad about bolting early. I've grown them several times in the past, and that always seems to happen with that variety.
I have 8 4ft x 8ft x12 inches raised beds mine are doing fabulous. (Carrots), (kale, swiss chard, collard greens, poles on arched hog panel)(sweet potato and 4 short rows bush beans)(sweet potatos)(cabbage)(2 kind potato)(brocolli) (onions and cabbage). I also am growing carrots, potatoes, cucubers, zucchini, herbs, sugar snap peas and spinach in cattle lick tanks next to the green house. I also grow cucumbers in 30 gallon blue barrels hydroponicly.(sweet success cucmbers).My main garden has 72 tomato plants, Roma II bush beans, Contender bush beans,egg plant, okra, cabbage, zucchini, ureka cucumber, sweet success cucumber, peppers , Christmas Lima Beans,
and beets. Out by the raised bed out in front of the house a corn patch of 8 rows of Hickory King corn.
Wow! Sounds like you're able to get a bunch of production from those raised beds.
Your red onions look great. I might pull my Texas grano is ready to harvest, turning brown on the outer shell laying over for awhile only one has a bloom out of 30.
Yeah sounds like they're ready!
Thank you for this great video. How often should we apply the pure nitrogen fertilizer and what was the name of the one you use?
I'd do it at least twice in the vegetative phase. We like the Nature Safe 13-0-0, but you can also use blood meal or feather meal.
Hey lazy dog great channel love watching your vids your garden looks excellent this year I have made greenhouse set up soon so I can grow all my seedlings like you and get a jump start on everything keep up the great work see you later 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
You'll love that new greenhouse!
2 questions. I have my onions in a container do I need to add dirt around the onions? Which and how often do I apply fertilizer/nitrogen!
No need to add soil around them. I'd feed them every few weeks during the vegetative phase. Once they start bulbing, stop feeding.
HELP! I’ve watched this video more times than I can count. I really, REALLY, want a good onion harvest this go around! I need clarification. Do you plant your seeds in November or your transplants? I am in zone 8b, South Mississippi, and I was wondering if I need to start seeds soon so I’ll have them ready to transplant in November.
We'll plant seeds in the greenhouse in September, then put the transplants in the ground in November.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you!!!
Would this be the same in Florida 9B? I takes about 4-6 weeks before the onions seedlings re strong enough to go into the ground, and it’s still 90s in the day here now, and it s September 6th. The 14 day forecast shows highs to 90 all the way to September 20. Last year it got to 90 as late as October 15, which is normally around the last day of hot weather, and by middle of November, the highs typically are low to mid 80s. This is why I started seeds in the greenhouse on October 15 last year, with going in the ground the end of November.
I have been using Birde Beds for two years now and I love them. I got mine through epic gardening they have treated me well. Vego is new on the raised bed game but I prefer Birdie beds. Both beds come from the same plaace in China but when I had talked to the people at Vego the tried to disput the research that I had Done, on who ran the company. The Cost is about the same.
Thanks for sharing Gary. They do look identical, so I figured something was up there.
Also really enjoy your content
Thanks Brian!
I agree with your 10 onion tips. I have tried topping onions after they have been in the ground but it never made better onions. If it doesn't help and it creates extra work, don't bother doing it. Are you able to grow strawberries where you are at? They are great in tall raised beds.
We can grow strawberries here. There's a decent-sized strawberry farm right down the road from us.
I remember you mentioning that sulfur is what gives the onion that “oniony flavor”. I seem to recall the introduction of ammonium sulfate being the solution. From what if seen, lately, you haven’t talked much about using synthetic fertilizers,. My recollection could be completely incorrect. If I AM correct:
1. Is that still part of your regimen?
2. If not, how do you introduce sulfur into the equation?
3. My apologies if you do no such thing and thank you for your consideration 😅
That is true that sulfur will give onions more "bite." I didn't use any sulfur-based fertilizers this year in the no-till plot, but the onions still taste great though.
Our red onions were bigger than the yellows or whites too. The whites made small bulbs, not much of a bulb really and they had great greenery and stalks.
Must have just been the year of the red onion!
When exactly do you start seeds in the greenhouse? I'm in. Zone 9b, and believe I'm short day. Thank you!
Usually in early September.
Just having the lil man involved deserves a like 👍🏾.. train em young
I would love to see the raised beds
hello mr dog sorry but i don't even know your name but i do find your show very interesting and very useful information i will keep looking at your show my friend keep up the very good work
My name is Travis. Glad to have you here!
@@LazyDogFarm thank you MR Travis we will be in touch my friend
I install cabinets by the foot so i need Ty Ty to come measure for bids !
Haha! He'd definitely improve profitability with his estimates!
I like the fire rings for raised beds . I wonder how long those will last . Probably a long time and that could make it a good alternative to wood over 10-15 years .
I think they should last a very long time.
My son built my raised beds triangles, /u shape and trapezoids.
Saving seeds on Texas legend replantedlast years left overs
I heard people say that they mix in bone meal before planting onions and root crops. Have you ever used it and if you have, what was your experience?Thanks for your videos!
The Nature Safe fertilizer we use has bone, feather, and blood meal in it. But I've never used solely bone meal.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you!
We are gonna have highs of 98 degrees tomorrow in augusta ga and hopefully we get rain this weekend like the weatherman says.
Hoping for some rain here too!
Thx for the info!
Our pleasure!
Amazing!!!
Thanks Ivan!
What do you think about using cinder blocks for raised beds? I keep seeing conflicting information about chemicals leaching out of them into the soil.
I think it would work fine.
I would have liked to see the inside of the 2 types of red onions I have grew some in the past that only red was on the outside with out any red at all in the middle.....
These are more white in the center. The skin on each layer is red to pink, but the actual "meat" of the onion is white.
I use 21-0-0 with sulfur, sulfur gives the onion a strong onion flavor.
Sulfur definitely gives them more "bite."
That's a great onion harvest. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall, you applied alfalfa pellets to this plot prior to planting. What is your opinion of the benefit of the alfalfa had on your crop this year? Would you add them again for the next crop? Love your channel and all the tips you provide to home gardeners...
I would definitely add them again. We also added them to our now determinate tomato plot and that plot is doing very well.
He was standingn on business about those measurements. 🤣🤣🤣
Hey Hoss
Have you ever tried growing shallots?
I have several times. They didn't do well for us down here. We planted from sets though. I haven't tried planting from seed.