The 2 Most Important Tips for Growing Big Onions
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Onions will grow just about anywhere, but what are the keys to growing the big, softball-sized onions that everyone wants?
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0:00 Start
0.23 First Important Tip
0:36 Two Growing Stages Of Onions
1:49 Second Important Tip For Growing Big Onions
2:05 Laying Drip Tape
2:36 Planting Onion Plants - Навчання та стиль
Lucky you. The only thing we plant in November in Canada is our butt on the couch waiting for spring.
Haha. Although you can probably grow a great garden in August and September whereas we can't.
Ha! Love it!
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me too, in southern Ontario. My garlic is in and most of the leaves have been cleared and in the compost.
Hoss is the boss! What a rare pleasure this video was. You didn't waste time explaining what you were going to cover and even waste more explaining what you weren't going to cover. Which on YT can go on until our ears fall off. You got to the point. Gave real information. You didn't parrot videos you watched in the last week on a topic you know nothing about. You sir put out one great video.
Thanks Rick. Glad you enjoyed it!
Exactly!
Yeah, I tried that "plant in November" and I ordered 1015 onions from Dixondale too. Trouble was that in the last week of December we had a polar vortex and the temp went to 3 degrees and stayed below freezing for 5 days. I covered the onions with plastic but it didn't help. Lost every damn one of them. So much for November planting. I replanted in early February and so far the onions are all alive. And I live in zone 7B.
You always have such good information! I'm growing my first garden - just a backyard raised bed garden - at age 71 since leaving the farm at age 17, so there's quite a bit I've forgotten. So I really appreciate all of your videos. Thank you!
Our pleasure Margaret!
To bad about the chemical usage:(
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_Too_ bad for you that you're completely wrong
I have been getting my onion plants from dixondale farms for years now with great results.Good video very interesting.
They are good friends of ours. Great people!
I've heard Danny and Wanda talk about Hoss Tools before. Y'all seem to be the right people to find out about most garden plants. Thank you for this info.
Danny and Wanda are great people. Glad you found us!
You explain things so well, thank you! I failed at my onions last year but hey you learn as you grow.
Great video! I had to learn the long and hard way 20 yrs ago how to do it right and you summed up everything I learned in less then 5 minutes, direct fast and to the point.
Thanks for watching!
Since people from all over are watching this, remember that short day onions do best in the south and long day onions do better in the north. This sounds backwards but this relates to the amount of light available to the plant when they start bulbing. Select the right variety of onion and follow Hoss's advice and you have a winner.
You are correct sir!
What a pleasure to listen to you teach. You are a wonderful communicator. Thanks for all your hard work.
So nice of you to say that! Thank you!
U R the BEST. U get right to the point. With no nonsense. Thank you for the impromation.
Thanks for watching Mai!
I live in Colorado, zone 5. I usually plant my onions in late fall and harvest any time next year. Snow has never been an issue but we usually don't get much in the Denver area. Great videos!!
Thanks Jennifer. Overwintered onions are the best!
I really liked your explanation: I started early, zone 4 in March, watered regularly; but did not know about the feeding. Why did I get so many seed stalks?
Thank you just started my onion end of October and am following your instructions. I am in San Diego so I hope they will comeout well.
Hope you have a great onion crop this upcoming year!
How’d those onions do?
OMG, I needed this video! I'm about to grow a lot of onions in front of my house. I could never get it right. Thanks for sharing.
Hope the video helps you have a great crop!
Appreciate the useful info, to the point, found this channel by accident, love the straightforward, advise & tips. Thank you from Australia
Glad you found us Valerie!
I’ve always planted my onions in the Spring. I Love the small spring onions. I’m gonna plant them later in the year this year so I’ll have big onions next year. Thanks!
My first year for small spring onions.
Thank you! Finally the info on onions that I've been looking for. I just subscribed.
Welcome! Thanks for subscribing!
0:15. About two weeks ago I watched this video and thew onion sets in some dirt that was about 1 in deep now I have about 30 onion sets popping up ready to be transplanted. They are so easy to grow and love water
That was some good information. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I was always happy with a freshly picked little onion for a salad. This year I will follow your lead.
Little onions are nice sometimes, but it's always fun to grow big ones! Best of luck!
That's a fantastic onion garden!!! Really appreciate your onion growing tips and advice. Greetings from Missouri... let's go for a walk through the woods and reconnect with nature ♡
Fantastic video. Informative, to the point, and easy to comprehend. Thank you, and keep it up!
Thanks for watching Greg!
i am from western new york and found your advice great thank you
Thanks for watching Yvonne!
Good tips! I feel a "Two Minute Tip" coming up on fungicides. I took Bruce's advice and really paid attention to my fungicide application schedule last season and it made all the difference in the world. Thanks for your great, informative content!
That's a good idea for a Two-Minute Tip!
@@gardeningwithhoss I didn't have a bit of problem with them the last couple of seasons when applying the Mancozeb as he directed. None of that nasty heart rot or any other problems.
Good to hear!
We don’t usually have fungus. Fungi (mushrooms) yes. But fungus is rare. I think my area might be a little too hot most of the time for it. We suffer from extreme heat in my area. If that does not kill the fungus I don’t know what else will without using poison.
@@cambuxton6835 The foremost authority on onions and largest commercial producer in the country is in Carrizo Springs TX, right on the Mexican border and he has fungal problems. Everybody has fungus of some sort. The year I had such problem with heart rot, my plants looked great and completely healthy. Never knew I had a problem until I cut open the onions. If you don't have any problems with it, consider yourself lucky!
I have watched numerous videos on this topic, you get to the point and offer the best advice. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Enjoyed your straight forward information that is right to the point and very helpful to this onion grower, we do about 2000 give or take mix between Red River, Corpa, Spanish, and Walla Walla. We are in southern Minnesota, Onions from Dixondale as well.
We just harvested ours. Hope you all have a great crop this year up in Minnesota!
I planted 100 onion sets last month in NE WA. I plan to pull every other as they grow, leaving the big ones for last in my raised beds. Love your informational video.
Thanks Julia. We do the same thing -- plant them thick, pull every other one as green onions, and leave the rest to get big.
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What do you do with all of those onions?
I missed my chance to order from Dixondale. I live minutes away from where the 1015Y onion was created. Weslaco Texas. We see onion fields everywhere so onions are never scarce here but growing your own food is always best.
Homegrown onions are definitely the best!
@@gardeningwithhoss what does it matter if you load them up with chemical fertilizer?
to get the best benefits of growing your own food you need to get away from chemicals.
@@paulk5311 I try and stay away from chemicals if there is an alternative that is natural and just as good or better, sometimes there are. However, most of all that grows in the garden has been developed to grow best under very unnatural conditions. Softball sized onions are not a natural occurrence and need help with unnatural soil mixes, fertilizer, and watering. If you can find a natural alternative do so but if you hold back giving the garden what it needs, the garden will hold back giving you what you want.
I like everything you said (I’m here in zone 10a) about planting onions. I wish you would have commented about short, long and day neutral varieties to help out some of the newer growers. I plant first week in November and start my plants from seed in flats right around Labor Day. All short-day varieties, Texas Grano, yellow granex and red creole. After bulbing I cut way back on fertilizer and switch from 20-20-20 water soluble to CAN-27 side dressing. I’ve found too much late fertilizer promotes a large number of seed heads.
You are correct. We cut the fertilizer when bulbing starts and just water heavily from then on.
I live in the Pacific Northwest in America, I think fairly similar weather. Everything in the onion family seems to do great here, including the purple ones. I wonder if it is a nutrition or water issue? I planted bulbs last year, the yellow ones failed, where they were planted I just couldn’t get them enough water, very sandy type soil with bark dust, the water didn’t seem to hold. Plus too much competition from roses. But my purple ones were my first ever successful onions, not as large as the grocery store, but bigger than a golf ball.
What an excellent video, direct, useful and information packed.
Thanks Anzay!
Simple advice, well presented. Thankyou -- Liked your ideas with the drip tape and fertilizing.
Its always been tough here growing onions. Frost danger not past until april or may. And pretty cool anyway.
We'll keep trying - and keep learning.
With this piece of video, i believe you have made me a millionaire already. Thanks bro.
Glad you enjoyed it Denis!
This organic permaculture gardener appreciates the breakdown into the investment and payoff stage...and the reminder to THIN every other one to maximize potential of the rest. :-)
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Thanks just now getting into onions!
Great information, I really like the way you explain it so well, you just got a new subscriber.
Welcome and thanks for subbing Jerry!
I've settled on Ailsa Craig here in Scotland and yeah, if you give them 6 inches between plants you will get nice big 4-5" diameter onions near guaranteed with lots of nutrients, can even grow into the true giant type for shows etc if you want. Always from seed, sets not worth it in my opinion - seed onions are so easy, can start the whole bed in a single ice cream tub and they're so hardy its easy to separate them for planting.
Never had any luck with any red onion in my climate - too cool I think.
Been growing Ailsa Craig as well (52.5 latitude). Marvellous onion. Got 800 grams out of one of them but they should be able to do more
many many thanks to you tube and millions of video makers helping to increase livelihood knowledge. i thank you for giving onion knowledge
We thank you for watching!
Thank you for the tips.
You're welcome!
Good stuff Travis. I've took your advice the last two years and they do well. I always fertilized but I didn't know when they start bulb stop the fert. I always make big onions but now I make bigger and better I plant the 1015y which is the parent of the legend they get bigger for me.
Joel Henderson sounds good. Hope you have some nice onions this year.
Thank you for sharing about onions.
Charmaine Montgomery thanks for watching!
A Vancouver Island thank you for this clear, full commentary. Rick Dees' commentary nailed it. And though our growing window is different, the advice holds. Ta. Does growing them in manure help?
Yes, but can't plant when it is too hot.
Thanks for the tips! Makes a lot of sense.
I really appreciate the videos, man.
We appreciate you watching!
I tried this last year here in Washington state with Walla Walla's and it worked great!
I am from Namibia, Africa and found your video very useful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent content. I wish you and yours all the best.
Kris Oluich thanks! Best wishes to you as well!
Love your videos. Very simple. Im about to go a little larger in my onion growing.
Wonderful!
Love your channel! This onion growing video,is amazing.Thank you!👍😉Do you(or will you), have a video on growing garlic(?)🤔Thanks. :) SC
Seems like we have a couple. Will be doing an update on our garlic, shallots and onions soon.
Short and too the point. Love it. Thanks dude
Thanks for watching George!
Great video…lots of great info and you get right to the point.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh , I have one of those Hoss push plows ! They are well constructed , versatile and very efficient !
Glad you like it!
Great information along with the way you showed us all here.
Thanks for watching
Great video, I love growing onions, especially the green leaves, for me its 2 for 1. Cut the greens off to eat and the bulp at the end.
We love putting the greens in soups, salads and so much more!
Right on brother. Keep up the great job!!
Thanks Joe!
Hi from N GA. I started three types of onions this year (Yellow onion sets, Texas sweet onions with stalks, and Egyptian walking onion sets). I'm going to follow your approach using 4x8 raised beds. Looks promising.
It's a great way to conserve space and get more plants in a given area.
Great info I have my Texas legands in the ground and doing well. I look forward to this years expo and meeting you and greg
Good to hear your onions are doing well!
Yeah i saw a huge yellow onion in the store recently i hope i can learn to grow huge ones like that! Im just getting started and am currently growing onions on my window shelf lol
Feed them well, plant the right varieties for your area, plant them at the right time, and you'll be good.
loved this. very informative. thanks
I did enjoy the video, for a second time or third....i need to check out your site for more as well as that fertilizer. Thanks, very helpful
Please do!
I planted some scallions in the garden bed two years ago, I harvested most of the leaves when they were about 10 inches tall, they started growing back, I let them grow all year last year, and now they are about 2 feet tall and as big around as a broom handle. I think I'll let them keep going to see how big they get
Thank for the video and those important tips.
You're welcome Lynda! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the wonderful information.
Brilliant tips! Thanks mate
You're welcome Stephen!
Good straight forward information. I purchased from Dixondale for the first time this year. Their website has lots of great information.
They are good people. We have enjoyed working with them over the years.
Right to the point , and good information thank you
I am in Tn and I sow my onions with pelleted seeds in my greenhouse about the 3rd week in January. I do no dig with mushroom compost. Other than thinning like you do i do not add anything but water. I do water them regularly. My onions vary in size and i have some big onions and some not so big where in one corner of my greenhouse they do not get enough sun. They sre still in the ground but i am not going to water them anymore, In a week are so i will just pull them up, cut most of the leaf part off and just let them dry on the ground in the greenhouse. It works well for me and i have been doing it that way about 5 years.
Mushroom compost is good stuff. Hard to find around here, but would definitely use it if we could get our hands on some.
@@gardeningwithhoss Monterey Mushroom Co. is here in Tn and i have it delivered 25 yards at a time. All m garden is in beds and my actual growing space is about 2500 - 3000 sq ft and 25 yds lasts 2 years. I put it on in the fall and plant 2-3 crops in each bed per year without putting anymore on until the next fall. Everything grows real well in it. I am planning on getting some seeds from you this fall or winter for next season. I am looking forward to that Jambalya okra and its huge yields!!!!
You won't be disappointed with the Jambalaya okra. It's really good stuff!
I planted in October. I hope they get through winter
I didn't think of planting them close on purpose and then just using the extras as green onions. Good idea! I suppose you can even let them get a little bigger and treat them like shallots.
Excellent video. Lots of important info in a short amount of time!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I dehydrate my onions... soooo good!
we are growing onions from seed this year, exciting stuff. I cant wait to see if they are bigger than the sets tht i have also grown.
Thank you for this excellent info!
Excellent. No bullshit, and straight to the point. Thanks for posting this video. Greetings from England
Hello from across the pond!
@@gardeningwithhoss please sir i'm in from western part of africa please here we have raining season and dry season which one is the best to plant onions i just want to give a try sir please reply to me.
VERY INFORMATIVE , No B.S. video . Thank you very much Sir !
You have the best gardening videos on You Tube. Period.
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Nice video, my onions that I tried to grow in the fall are looking nice in the spring. They made it through winter which was surprising to me. I wonder what the difference is growing from bulb sets and growing with the little onion plants you show in the video?
Plants will produce a bigger onion because that's coming from seed. The bulb is coming from an "immature" onion plant that was harvested early.
great information, thank you!
You're welcome!
Lots of great information! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great info! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
real helpful!! thanks! (from Penna)
Arkansas, plant in spring with everything else. The varieties we do are ready in augest and September
We've heard of folks in Arkansas overwintering like we do -- plant in November and harvest in spring. Might want to try it one year.
this is a good video. I lot of good info just what I need to know.
Glad you enjoyed it Gregory!
Good soil is helpful. We get big green onions too.
thank you! your instructions were very helpful!
Glad you enjoyed them!
Great video, thanks for tips.
Thanks David!
great job man well thought out
What date would you recommend for planting in Zone 7B? Do you also have a video showing how you winter the onions?
If your temps rarely get below 20 degrees and don't stay there for long, you can plant in November and overwinter them like we do. If you get colder than that, you'll probably have to wait until spring to plant them. We don't cover ours in the winter because it doesn't get cold enough. We just keep them fertilized and watered.
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You are really an experienced farmer cause the type of your earth and the way you make the soil ready showing it, and you are not just wanna say something for advertising. Hope see more clips and practical info. Wish you the best year and year esp. in this corona- crises situation.
We try to post three videos a week, so content is regularly being posted here. Thanks for watching!
@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks for kind attention and reply I will fully use of all recommendation and your experiences regarding new forms of planting and methods hope you consider them in your instructing as well. Please
In the Appalachians in North Carolina we cannot plant in November or northern Georgia, but if you're at sea level, sure.
thank you brother
When you plant onions in November,how long do you wait to harvest the onions?
We usually start harvesting onions in April.
Good info but I have a question is there a difference between onion sets and the little individual plants like you were planting in the video ? Thanks
There is a difference. We've always planted plants as plants will typically provide larger bulbs.
I’ve subscribed to your UA-cam channel and all blessings from Ireland
Thanks and welcome to our channel
Well done!
Thanks John!
This video is very nice it helped me a lot 😊👍
Thanks for watching!
I live in a long day area, i am planting 2 crops: one in fall and one in spring
Got containers ready and 1 raised bed. Come on spring weather. Going to minus over next few days at night in omemee. I will try beets Kale spinach. Radish and onion growing in a few days
Sounds great!
I am from Wales In the UK thoroughly enjoyed your video all the best
Glad you enjoyed it Carl!
Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
Good info, right to the root! 👍