I know that I can buy onions at the farmer's market for 25 cents a pound, but also more often at the supermarket, but nothing beats my own backyard garden for onions that I grew myself without pesticides or insecticides just one minute away from my kitchen.
@@andredumas9547 I agree with you there. And those of us who grow them ourselves, have more appreciation for the process. Even if some come out small, I still love them
I found this video because I wanted to add onions to my indoor kitchen garden where I grow corn, tomatoes, garlic, peppermint and so on. First video I watched :)
Another superb video Ben!!! Brilliant work! One thing I would add is the affect of soil sulfur content on onions. The more sulfur, the hotter and more pungent the onion, the sweetest and mildest onions are grown in well draining soil with almost no sulfur. Some gardeners use sulfur to adjust soil PH and that can have a dramatic affect on onions. I like to raise the sulfur content in the soil in which I grow my cooking onions, (adding eggs is a good natural way to do that). More pungent means more flavor and more flavor for cooking onions is very good. I like to grow my sweet onions, red onions, and scallion onions in low sulfur soil because those will be consumed raw where sweet and mild is appreciated. Manure has plenty of sulfur to keep most garden plants happy and healthy, and too much or too little sulfur can negatively affect most plants, but for onions, understanding how sulfur affects it can give you a big advantage in growing onions you like/prefer.
Mine were same smaller than normal, I put it down to neglect on my part didnt water as much. Always have winners and looses though so maybe next year we get a better crop. I am trying my hand at seeds next year I usually buy heat treated onion sets but trying to be a little more frugal and save some cash
Not all of mine were perfect. I think this summer (in the UK anyhow) hasn't been as warm and sunny as perhaps we've become used to, and the onions haven't swollen quite as much as I'd liked. Next year though!
Ben, I have tried onions from seed one time and nothing came up. I was so disappointed I never tried again but after watching the video you made, I am going to give this a shot again. You have inspired me and I know I will succeed if I follow your instructions. I will start indoors this time, it must have been a weather event that stopped them from coming up last time.
I've grown onion for many decades here in New England and usually have a good crop. The crazy weather is the biggest problem. Very late cold weather followed by hot dry weather can make it difficult. This coming growing season I am going to go back to raising my onions under lots of leaf mulch. I will also space them further apart as you suggest Many thanks!
I grew my first crop of onions this year using your videos. I was pretty terrified of the process because of that certain mold that can happen and essentially ruin the soil for eternity lol. But it was a good experience and I got two dozen proper onions. A few didn't make it but that's okay. I'm going to start my seeds tomorrow for next years' harvest :) Love your videos!
my onions from the store started sprouting, and since i use onions on a regular basis i figured why not just let it grow🤷🏽♀️ i’ve been trying to do research on growing onions and ALL i could find were tips on growing it and harvesting the leaves, nothing about harvesting another onion. this is the first video to finally go into full detail! thank you so much ♥️
Unfortunately doing this, while giving you some tasty leaves, is unlikely to produce a new useable bulb. This is because the onion will now be in its second year, so will instead go to flower instead, rather than producing a bulb. Onions live for two years only - first year producing the bulb, then in their second flowering and setting seed. That said, the flowers are beautiful and the insects love them!
I've grown new shoots from the cut off bottom of a store brought onion and they seem to be successfully growing so far. Although sounds like I should expect them to go to seed. Not that worried as I'll be able to use the seed for next year.
My Walla Walla Sweets are huge. I am so excited. I started them early, April at the 45th parallel, and had been amending my soil beginning in March with worm castings and compost. I kept them wet all summer. Yum! Gardener bragging rights!
Truly enjoy your videos. I am starting an onion garden. I eat a lot of onions. I just built the raised bed with wood scraps and will plant the onions tomorrow. I am hoping my onions look as good as yours.
I left (accidentally) some onions through the winter and this season they flowered. Now I know why. Although, they look good and tasted good to eat after flowering too. I still have some in the garden. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
I just watched your video, I am a new gardener, here in zone 6a and well the sets that I put in at the beginnig of of the season have yeat to do anything. Now I know the trick and next year will be a great harvest. Idid get lost of leafy greens, garlic, some carrots and some tomatoes. I do have some squash that has begun to need harvesting. I will check out your channel so I am ready for next season.
Planting onions this weekend (Autumn here in Western Sydney, Australia). Small sets grown from seed last year. Hunter Brown, and seed of a white onion passed down from my grandfather.
Grew 2 beds this year. Red and brown. Started sets off indoors. In a tray of compost. As experiment. Soon had shoots and come planting. Lovely healthy roots. Pulled red early, to eat. Lifted brown last weekend. Biggest onions yet. In greenhouse drying. Well chuffed 😊
I had a store bought red onion in the back of the cabinet that sprouted so I removed the outer layers and separated the individual bulbs and now I’m soaking them in water to help the roots grow a bit before planting in my raised bed gardens. I’ve never planted onions before, so this video was helpful to know what to expect and what to do. Thank you!
Yes I grew my own onions this year and thoroughly enjoying cooking with them. I only wish I did more! I’m off to look at my onion seed pack to see if it’s time to plant! 👀
I am so grateful to have stumbled upon your channel! The way you explain is so simple to understand and entertaining, too! Thank you spreading your knowledge 🙏🏻
I'm a novice gardener, and this is my first season growing onions. I live in NW Arkansas and sometimes having a garden can be tricky because of the extreme weather so I thank you for your informative video❤
I grew short day bulb onions this year from sets as soon as the local nursery received them! Highly successful! Such fun! Had never grown bulb onions; only scallions…will do this again…absolutely delicious! I shared with my neighbors as “just because” gifts and everyone seemed to love them! P.S. i am a subscriber and I bought your book.
I've just started some from seeds just had to separate them and plant individual done about a 3 inch spacing once they mature a little more I may have to space them further
Growing 5 varieties this year, Bedford Champs, Walla Walla, Sweet Spanish, Kelsae and another white variety. Starting them from seeds sown on Boxing day indoors without heat. Last years crops were great, but not from seed, so this year should prove interesting. Good luck with yours this season.
hi Ben iv come back to this video because I followed this way last year and by God they was absolutely brilliant and all the same size apart from one that took some damage, mime are already in rite now hope to get the same result s again. hope you have a great veg season Ben
I'm going to try to grow onions ONE MORE TIME! It's so frustrating to get beautiful greens with no bulbs. But, I've done more research and think I can do it this year! Wish me luck! Love your channel
Companion planting is a game changer. I used to get holes all through my carrots from carrot fly larvae until I started planting them with onions. Carrot flies can't stand the smell of onions, and onions actually make your carrots taste sweeter.
I read that the moon phase also influences the onions flowering. According to Old Farmers Almanac, planting bulbing seeds in the Waning of the Moon phase (when the moon goes dark), is the best way.
I planted sets into a raised bed in October (can’t remember if I was supposed to plant them then but I did! 🤷🏼♀️🤣) and astonishingly most of them grew they’re about 15cm long now. Hopefully at least one succeeds!
Our onions did really well this year. Started harvesting some of them that had fallen over about two weeks ago and just left them on the wooden part of the bed to dry. Braided them a couple of days ago and hoping that the rest of the onions do well and will harvest them at the end of September or early October. Love growing onions. We had enough last year to last all through the winter and into early summer!
I'm new to your channel and I actually just subscribed I found your video very helpful with the onions this is my first year growing vegetables ever from seedlings and I found it very informative
I just found your website and then your UA-cam channel, which is backwards to my normal way as I’m a University of UA-cam PHD Student! I was searching for a journaling tool and found yours, not being very computer smart and a beginning vegetable gardener your planner and journaling website spoke to me… I hope I can maneuver around it easily. We live in Southern California now, but we will be relocating to the Oceanside of Northern California or Oregon within the year or 2 to our forever beach property. Retirement is divine, but I must maintain constant activity to remain alive!
UA-cam is a great way to learn Brady! I do hope you'll find the Journal and Garden Planner handy - they're quite intuitive we hope. Best of luck with your relocation. I spent a year in Portland and loved Cannon Beach - it's beautiful over there and I'm sure you'll be very. But keep active okay!!
Yes I grew Ailsa Craige this year and am very pleased with the results. I did have a few bolt but having seen your video I wonder if this was the result of temperature fluctuations in the spring I had sown the seed at the beginning of August planting on the seedlings in November to a raised bed in my polytunnel.
I had a monster crop of Onions this year and managed to both string them up as normal but I also made some plaited strings too...very satifying doing that! I grow all mine from seed, I stopped using sets years ago because of bolting which is now less of a problem for me. I used the Onion feed this year that my Grandad used to use, I really think that made all the difference for me. I enjoyed this video, always interesting to see how others do things differently to yourself and get similar results...Steve...😃
Love your presenting style, thanks so much for sharing. Coming to the end of my first year growing. Last August i direct-sowed onion seeds and now I have a number of good sized bulbs. Thing is, the leaves show absolutely no sign of wilting - not the least sign of browning, look like they'll go on forever. If I pull them now will that affect their storage capability?
You can use them fresh, as they are right now. But to store I would wait till the leaves start to die back. This will naturally occur a little later in the summer.
My Onions turned out well and have enough for the year :-) I also chopped some up and there in the freezer, Still have some from last year `all good`. Just put Winter carrots in, they turn out small but sweet. Enjoy your VL.
I love watching your videos and your enthusiasm!! You look so familiar, and after months I just realized that maybe you were on Cbeebies? I watched that constantly when my kids was young. Was that you?
This video is so good that I would pay for it if I had to. There are really few videos that I like as much, and I have been on yt since the beginning 👍😮⭐️
I too just harvested my onions and videoed but I now know why some were small and most medium... I'm going for large next year, in a raised bed, far from the in ground garden I grew in this year. Thank you excellent tips, as always.
Impossible not to love this guy.
Bless you - you'll make me blush!
I harbor a deep seeded hate
@@GrowVeg @hubblespacebox - yup I'm in too. Never grown anything. First up Onions lets see how they go
“They’re enough to make you cry” 😂 you got me
Please dont stop making video's, thay are so helpful. Love your channel.
Thanks Kim. We'll keep those videos coming, don't worry. Thanks for watching.
@@GrowVeg Im so happy to learn that these are going to continue. they are encouraging and helpful reminders.
Love your dad jokes “there enough to make you cry” 😂😂😂 these upcoming comedians should take note. Well done mate
Cheers for that - love a good pun! :-)
I know that I can buy onions at the farmer's market for 25 cents a pound, but also more often at the supermarket, but nothing beats my own backyard garden for onions that I grew myself without pesticides or insecticides just one minute away from my kitchen.
Absolutely! :-)
@@andredumas9547 I agree with you there. And those of us who grow them ourselves, have more appreciation for the process. Even if some come out small, I still love them
I always come back for a quick review! Thanks, Ben, for fertilizing my gardening knowledge!
You're most welcome. :-)
It will be my first time trying to grow onions and garlic this year. Wish me luck! Thanks for posting this, it was highly educational.
I'm sure you'll do a fantastic job with both! :-)
I found this video because I wanted to add onions to my indoor kitchen garden where I grow corn, tomatoes, garlic, peppermint and so on. First video I watched :)
Yes. Sets. And upping the harvest by 200%
Love salad onions. Didn’t realize the actual difference. Thanks Bob. 😊😊😊
You’re welcome. 😀
Oh I love your greenhouse! That's beautiful!
Another superb video Ben!!! Brilliant work! One thing I would add is the affect of soil sulfur content on onions. The more sulfur, the hotter and more pungent the onion, the sweetest and mildest onions are grown in well draining soil with almost no sulfur. Some gardeners use sulfur to adjust soil PH and that can have a dramatic affect on onions. I like to raise the sulfur content in the soil in which I grow my cooking onions, (adding eggs is a good natural way to do that). More pungent means more flavor and more flavor for cooking onions is very good. I like to grow my sweet onions, red onions, and scallion onions in low sulfur soil because those will be consumed raw where sweet and mild is appreciated. Manure has plenty of sulfur to keep most garden plants happy and healthy, and too much or too little sulfur can negatively affect most plants, but for onions, understanding how sulfur affects it can give you a big advantage in growing onions you like/prefer.
I had no idea about the sulphur - that's a really interesting insight, thanks for sharing that Tim.
Great tip, thank you
I had no idea. Thanks for the onion wisdom.
Imagine this would help with garlic as well after all, the best benefits of garlic is their sulfur compounds yes?
Wow, seems there's many layers to this
"Enough to make you cry" - your banter is second to none!!
What a nice picture! A man with an arm full of onions he's just harvested. :)
Definitely growing short day onions here in North Florida panhandle Zone 8b! I start my seeds to plant out in November and over-winter them.
When do you start your seeds?
I’ve just harvested my onions which were a little disappointing this year so this video is timely. Thank you for the great content as usual.
Mine were same smaller than normal, I put it down to neglect on my part didnt water as much. Always have winners and looses though so maybe next year we get a better crop. I am trying my hand at seeds next year I usually buy heat treated onion sets but trying to be a little more frugal and save some cash
Not all of mine were perfect. I think this summer (in the UK anyhow) hasn't been as warm and sunny as perhaps we've become used to, and the onions haven't swollen quite as much as I'd liked. Next year though!
You are my go to guy. Thank you
Ben, I have tried onions from seed one time and nothing came up. I was so disappointed I never tried again but after watching the video you made, I am going to give this a shot again. You have inspired me and I know I will succeed if I follow your instructions. I will start indoors this time, it must have been a weather event that stopped them from coming up last time.
Yes, worth starting them off in the warm, to germinate. And use fresh seed!
I've grown onion for many decades here in New England and usually have a good crop. The crazy weather is the biggest problem. Very late cold weather followed by hot dry weather can make it difficult. This coming growing season I am going to go back to raising my onions under lots of leaf mulch. I will also space them further apart as you suggest Many thanks!
Yes, that shoud all help, especially that mulch. :-)
I grew my first crop of onions this year using your videos. I was pretty terrified of the process because of that certain mold that can happen and essentially ruin the soil for eternity lol. But it was a good experience and I got two dozen proper onions. A few didn't make it but that's okay. I'm going to start my seeds tomorrow for next years' harvest :) Love your videos!
Well done on getting some decent onions - top work! :-)
Ben, ngl mate i really love your videos. Theyre short, sweet, to the point. Ur just brilliant mate.
Wow, that's very kind of you to say. Thank you! :-)
my onions from the store started sprouting, and since i use onions on a regular basis i figured why not just let it grow🤷🏽♀️ i’ve been trying to do research on growing onions and ALL i could find were tips on growing it and harvesting the leaves, nothing about harvesting another onion. this is the first video to finally go into full detail! thank you so much ♥️
Unfortunately doing this, while giving you some tasty leaves, is unlikely to produce a new useable bulb. This is because the onion will now be in its second year, so will instead go to flower instead, rather than producing a bulb. Onions live for two years only - first year producing the bulb, then in their second flowering and setting seed. That said, the flowers are beautiful and the insects love them!
I've grown new shoots from the cut off bottom of a store brought onion and they seem to be successfully growing so far. Although sounds like I should expect them to go to seed. Not that worried as I'll be able to use the seed for next year.
My Walla Walla Sweets are huge. I am so excited. I started them early, April at the 45th parallel, and had been amending my soil beginning in March with worm castings and compost. I kept them wet all summer. Yum! Gardener bragging rights!
Nice one Nancy!
I dont have time to watch now but I quickly skipped to 52 seconds and his face and passion is enough to subscribe. Fairplay my friend!
Wow, thank you! And a very warm welcome to the channel! :-)
I didn't have much luck with my onions last growing season so about to plant my onion sets for this autumn, very helpful video, as always! Thanks!
Growing onions for the first time, this year! Thank you so much for all the helpful tips!!
Great to hear - I hope they do well for you. :-)
This is the first year I’ve managed to grow some decent onions. Having listened to your advice, I luckily nailed it‼️👌😂 chuffed to bits 😁
I bought some onion sets in the sale, forgot 50 pence you can only try !!any how they have now sprouted, so let's see what happens 🤔
Katherine Wright fab! Fingers crossed! 🤞🤞😁
Nice work there Lynn - and best of luck Katherine.
Your videos are one of my gardening guide 101.
That's wonderful to hear, thank you.
Truly enjoy your videos. I am starting an onion garden. I eat a lot of onions. I just built the raised bed with wood scraps and will plant the onions tomorrow. I am hoping my onions look as good as yours.
Yes I just planted 120 sets for first time Thank for the info on onions 🌰
Nice work Jacqueline, I hope they grow well for you.
I left (accidentally) some onions through the winter and this season they flowered. Now I know why. Although, they look good and tasted good to eat after flowering too. I still have some in the garden. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Glad you got to enjoy their flowers - they're quite stunning really. :-)
I just watched your video, I am a new gardener, here in zone 6a and well the sets that I put in at the beginnig of of the season have yeat to do anything. Now I know the trick and next year will be a great harvest. Idid get lost of leafy greens, garlic, some carrots and some tomatoes. I do have some squash that has begun to need harvesting. I will check out your channel so I am ready for next season.
Glad you found the video handy. Hope next season you get some fab onions. :-)
last years onions werre so so. I followed all instructions including the awesome dry rack the results were stellar.
That's great to hear. :-)
Attempting to grow onions for the first time this year!! Im excited!!
Planting onions this weekend (Autumn here in Western Sydney, Australia). Small sets grown from seed last year. Hunter Brown, and seed of a white onion passed down from my grandfather.
How wonderful to be growing a variety passed down from your grandfather. Such a nice way to honour his memory.
Grew 2 beds this year. Red and brown. Started sets off indoors. In a tray of compost. As experiment. Soon had shoots and come planting. Lovely healthy roots. Pulled red early, to eat. Lifted brown last weekend. Biggest onions yet. In greenhouse drying. Well chuffed 😊
Nice work Adrian!
Thanks for teaching.
I will try this weekend to plant my own onions.
Best of luck!
Really enjoyed this 🧅
I had a store bought red onion in the back of the cabinet that sprouted so I removed the outer layers and separated the individual bulbs and now I’m soaking them in water to help the roots grow a bit before planting in my raised bed gardens. I’ve never planted onions before, so this video was helpful to know what to expect and what to do. Thank you!
Great way of describing the whole process. I have learnt a lot in such a small time :-)
Yes I grew my own onions this year and thoroughly enjoying cooking with them. I only wish I did more! I’m off to look at my onion seed pack to see if it’s time to plant! 👀
I am so grateful to have stumbled upon your channel! The way you explain is so simple to understand and entertaining, too! Thank you spreading your knowledge 🙏🏻
You're very welcome - thank you for watching. :-)
I'm a novice gardener, and this is my first season growing onions. I live in NW Arkansas and sometimes having a garden can be tricky because of the extreme weather so I thank you for your informative video❤
You're very welcome. I hope you enjoy a great first harvest of onions. :-)
Im glad i found your videos!
A very warm welcome to the channel!
I have three different types of onions this year Ben. Walla walla , French table and white 🧅. Thanks for you input!
Great stuff Bill - nice to have a variety like that.
Learned a lot about onions, thanks!
Im here because I just watched your video from 5 days ago about how to cure and store onions. Thanks for great videos.
Cheers so much - thanks for watching. :-)
This will be my first time growing onions
Very best of luck Diane. 🧅
"Perfect," exact info I needed to know. Awesome video. Thank you so much.
Great to hear Aaron, thanks.
First time growing onions this year -so helpful advice thank you 👍
Cheers Lynn - hope you bag yourself a superb crop. :-)
First time viewer here. Thank you for making this. I have been doing well with growing onions but you gave me some tips to help improve my crop.
That's great to hear Luna. Welcome to the channel!
Great advice thank you! I was planning on growing onions this year and after watching this video it is definitely going to happen this year.
I have never grown onions before but I am going to try next year!
Great to hear that Chris.
we've just planted seeds to overwinter, fingers crossed they get established before we get a frost!
I grew short day bulb onions this year from sets as soon as the local nursery received them! Highly successful! Such fun! Had never grown bulb onions; only scallions…will do this again…absolutely delicious! I shared with my neighbors as “just because” gifts and everyone seemed to love them! P.S. i am a subscriber and I bought your book.
So pleased they were a success for you Geri. Thanks so much for buying the book - happy gardening!
I'm sitting here staring at a packet of Walla Walla onion seeds. Mid-December and I'm itching to plant!!
Hi thanks for the video, I'm just growing onions for the first time this year, as always I love watching how you do it first.
That’s great to hear Wayne. I hope you enjoy a bumper harvest!
My first year growing onions and they were fabulous.
Well done Ruth!
@@GrowVeg thank you. I do enjoy your easy to follow advice and the Garden Planner App
I've just started some from seeds just had to separate them and plant individual done about a 3 inch spacing once they mature a little more I may have to space them further
I love growing onions! Thanks for the tips!
Growing 5 varieties this year, Bedford Champs, Walla Walla, Sweet Spanish, Kelsae and another white variety. Starting them from seeds sown on Boxing day indoors without heat. Last years crops were great, but not from seed, so this year should prove interesting. Good luck with yours this season.
And very best of luck with yours - you've a great selection there.
hi Ben iv come back to this video because I followed this way last year and by God they was absolutely brilliant and all the same size apart from one that took some damage, mime are already in rite now hope to get the same result s again. hope you have a great veg season Ben
Thanks so much - and you too.
yes i will try this year i mean tomorrow :) from melbourne, AUstralia
I've just planted mine in South Africa
Love your videos, Ben!
Thank you! :-)
will be planting onions soon! Wish me luck!
Very best of luck Mariela!
I'm going to try to grow onions ONE MORE TIME! It's so frustrating to get beautiful greens with no bulbs. But, I've done more research and think I can do it this year! Wish me luck! Love your channel
Best of luck Tina - I'm sure you'll succeed this time round. :-)
I grew onions this year in between my carrots and they did very well and just learnt to let them dry before eating.
Companion planting is a game changer. I used to get holes all through my carrots from carrot fly larvae until I started planting them with onions. Carrot flies can't stand the smell of onions, and onions actually make your carrots taste sweeter.
I think they're also confused by the leaf shapes - makes the crops harder to spot.
I read that the moon phase also influences the onions flowering. According to Old Farmers Almanac, planting bulbing seeds in the Waning of the Moon phase (when the moon goes dark), is the best way.
I planted sets into a raised bed in October (can’t remember if I was supposed to plant them then but I did! 🤷🏼♀️🤣) and astonishingly most of them grew they’re about 15cm long now. Hopefully at least one succeeds!
Thank you Ben! ❤️❤️
I needed this video!! I can grow spring onions and pickling ones but no go on the big yellows!!
🐝 Thanks for the great video 🌻
Thank you for the tips, I suffered with a lot bolting this year, and they are all quite small. Grown from small bulbs not seeds in raised beds.
I find that sets are more prone to bolting than onions raised from seed. But starting from seed does means a slightly longer growing season.
@@GrowVeg thank you. I will try seeds next year. 🤩
Another awesome video thank you! I am learning sooooo much!
Brill! :-)
i love this channel great work Ben
Thanks for watching. :-)
I always do them in the fall. I just have way more time! So we sow them then we move bed to bed refreshing the soil and weeding etc
Our onions did really well this year. Started harvesting some of them that had fallen over about two weeks ago and just left them on the wooden part of the bed to dry. Braided them a couple of days ago and hoping that the rest of the onions do well and will harvest them at the end of September or early October. Love growing onions. We had enough last year to last all through the winter and into early summer!
I'm new to your channel and I actually just subscribed I found your video very helpful with the onions this is my first year growing vegetables ever from seedlings and I found it very informative
So pleased you found it useful - and thanks so much for the sub! :-)
I just found your website and then your UA-cam channel, which is backwards to my normal way as I’m a University of UA-cam PHD Student! I was searching for a journaling tool and found yours, not being very computer smart and a beginning vegetable gardener your planner and journaling website spoke to me… I hope I can maneuver around it easily. We live in Southern California now, but we will be relocating to the Oceanside of Northern California or Oregon within the year or 2 to our forever beach property. Retirement is divine, but I must maintain constant activity to remain alive!
UA-cam is a great way to learn Brady! I do hope you'll find the Journal and Garden Planner handy - they're quite intuitive we hope. Best of luck with your relocation. I spent a year in Portland and loved Cannon Beach - it's beautiful over there and I'm sure you'll be very. But keep active okay!!
Yes I am going onions this fall
Yes I grew Ailsa Craige this year and am very pleased with the results. I did have a few bolt but having seen your video I wonder if this was the result of temperature fluctuations in the spring I had sown the seed at the beginning of August planting on the seedlings in November to a raised bed in my polytunnel.
Temperature fluctuations can be a nuisance for bolting.
Nice video, but a fresh masterclass is needed, thanks 🙏
Thanks, I hope to revisit onions very soon. :-)
Thanks again Ben another great video full of tips on onion growing 👍
Tried to grow for the first time last year and was not successful. I'll give it another go next year using your tips.
I'm using an allotment for the first time this year and am growing onions from bulbs
Hope the allotment is going well - here's to a productive first year. :-)
I had a monster crop of Onions this year and managed to both string them up as normal but I also made some plaited strings too...very satifying doing that! I grow all mine from seed, I stopped using sets years ago because of bolting which is now less of a problem for me. I used the Onion feed this year that my Grandad used to use, I really think that made all the difference for me. I enjoyed this video, always interesting to see how others do things differently to yourself and get similar results...Steve...😃
You're clearly doing the right thing Steve to get a monster crop - good job!
What's bolting?
Just found your channel, excellent video Ben. Subscribed. All the best Nige
Thanks for the sub Nige, and a very warm welcome to you!
@@GrowVeg Thanks mate :)
Love your presenting style, thanks so much for sharing. Coming to the end of my first year growing. Last August i direct-sowed onion seeds and now I have a number of good sized bulbs. Thing is, the leaves show absolutely no sign of wilting - not the least sign of browning, look like they'll go on forever. If I pull them now will that affect their storage capability?
You can use them fresh, as they are right now. But to store I would wait till the leaves start to die back. This will naturally occur a little later in the summer.
I had a cracking onion 🧅 harvest this year. Mine are now hanging in an onion bag in my shed👍
Lovely stuff!
as always simple but informative and to the point explanation. Thanks
Great video as usual Ben thank you. Please help pollinators though by letting some veg bolt to produce lovely flowers for them 😊
Absolutely. And some veggie flowers are beautiful too!
My Onions turned out well and have enough for the year :-) I also chopped some up and there in the freezer, Still have some from last year `all good`. Just put Winter carrots in, they turn out small but sweet. Enjoy your VL.
Great work on freezing some - nice to have go-to bags of pre-chopped onions like that.
I have just harvested mine and have them drying in my garage after two days in the sun. Love your videos! Thanks for all the tips.
Getting the crop in and safely stored is so satisfying Sharon.
I love watching your videos and your enthusiasm!! You look so familiar, and after months I just realized that maybe you were on Cbeebies? I watched that constantly when my kids was young. Was that you?
Thanks for your kind words. :-) I've never been on CBeebies - that would be a fun and very rewarding gig! :-)
Thanks for the tip on composting and crop rotation, doing onions this year btw. This left me wondering what exactly identifies the mildew?
This guide will help you identify it: www.growveg.com/plant-diseases/us-and-canada/onion-downy-mildew/
This video is so good that I would pay for it if I had to. There are really few videos that I like as much, and I have been on yt since the beginning 👍😮⭐️
Thanks so much, that's very kind of you to say! :-)
@@GrowVeg no thank you sir. Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you! This is very helpful as always!
Great video, thank you.
I too just harvested my onions and videoed but I now know why some were small and most medium... I'm going for large next year, in a raised bed, far from the in ground garden I grew in this year. Thank you excellent tips, as always.
Great stuff Susie. Let's hope we both have better luck next season!