Man those onions look great!! I’m jealous as I’ve not had a lot of luck growing them. Would love to see some videos of how you process the different produce, like how you hull peas/limas, and how you save them (canning, freezing, etc). As always, top-notch video and looking forward to Friday’s installment!!
saw my first English pea pod today. 8a I think just a little SE of Dallas, didn't start as early as you did...AND come on people give O Travis a BIG thumbs up!!!!!!
I dearly love to eat fresh green peas, but I hate to shell them. Got roped into it a lot as a kid. Handy when it comes to brute force but not so good at fine work. I can't imagine shelling eighteen quarts but having all those peas in the freezer would be a dream come true. Good gardening there, my friend. Jasmine Street Farm
Travis , I wanted a fig tree so badly , I didnt know you put them up and I watch every video .... Oh boy i will be watching for your notifications fast .... Mrs Josette Tharp Montgomery , Texas 🙏🏻
Thank you Travis , You were blessed like Mr Danny & wanda at Deepsouth Homestead along with Hollis and Nancy Homestead in Florida . They both talk about yall all the time . This was my 1st year to grow 300+ onions from hoss tools and Dixondale farms here in Texas , We got a very bad rain storm this past monday , i know over 5 plus inches as my rain detector was over 5 inches , so Ive waited a couple days , But now saw you and Mr Danny pull yalls onions. He found 1 rotten , So i dont want to wait . Thank you for all your great informative content I ringed my onions and Gave them Ammonium Sulfate 21-0-0 3 bags over the growing season . God bless you and your beautiful wife Brooklyn and family . Mrs Josette Tharp Montgomery County , Texas 🙏🏻
Question. A dear friend of mine, whom is elderly, gave me a “strawberry onion “ The story goes that berry farmers use these onions for pest control in their fields. They are super sweet and very large in size. Have you heard of these or this practice or is it some ole farmer lore. Thanks. Love the channel and your website!
I have heard of those. I've actually seen a couple of them that some folks in Florida grew. Biggest onion I've ever seen in person. Wish I knew where to get the seeds.
I grew 1015s one year and they did okay. But much like the Texas Early Grano 502, they can't compete with some of these hybrid varieties. It's not a fair fight. lol
You gonna have to show us how the winter squash is going. You certainly will have enough onions to last awhile. I would have left a couple of my favorites to seed out and save the seeds. As usual Travis another good video.
Just got the Fig tree in the mail & it looks great!! Pro packaging !!!! Looking forward to planting it this weekend!! Great job Travis! Keep up the great work and appreciate chya and all your informative videos!!!
Wow the onions look amazing! My onions never get that large. I haven’t grown shelling peas yet. Thanks for the inspiration to do so. Love your growing space. I don’t have that much space. My garden is mainly raised beds, but I would like to have my entire backyard become garden space and add some fruit trees. Still working on convincing my family. Thanks for all your hard work! 👍🏻🌺
I raised my slips this year in 162 cells I planted about 300 slips give sister a few them slips has done a lot better than buying I planted mostly candy onions I live in zone 6 however I can raise short day also I planted about 40 savana sweet this year to try last year I had half and half candy onions &Texas legends them slips didn’t even know they had been transplanted
Oh found out ... there is a guy on UA-cam.... castle hill garden.... he says look at the onions and if they have a big neck.... (base of green top) they tend to rot first so try to use them up first
Nice onions dog. We have a hard time getting big onions here in Ky. but I still eat lots of green onions. I grow hard neck garlic and the people I buy seed stock from carry some varieties that thrive on you guys type of climate. Their Creole Group variety is fine in zones 7-10 according to this years catalog. Try them out and I’m sure you’ll throw out that old soft neck once you’ve tasted the hard neck type! Gotta go I’m tryin to work my main plot today!
Thank you for explaining how to store crops without a cellar or basement. I don't have a pole barn, and I don't own this property, but with your explanation I think I might be able to fix something up.
I usually wait until the tops start falling over, and then I push over the entire row of onion tops onto the bulb of the onion beside it, in order to shade it from the Sun. If it stays dry, they will cure in the field. If it's rainy, I pull them and put them under a shed to finish curing. I usually scissor off the tops and roots when most of them are dry. I bag the best onions for storage and those with defects, such as bull necks, I use first.
The pods aren't as quite as large as Mr. Big, but I definitely think it's more productive. It's also PM and DM resistant, which certainly helps down here.
The softneck garlic should easily store until Nov so you can replant it. Once the garlic bulbs are cured, are you going to store the ones for replanting in the frig or wait until Aug/Sept to put them in the frig? The onions were impressive. Mine have been battered by the extended cold we had this year. Very unusual how cold it's been this spring. I'm guessing my onions won't be ready until mid-August or they will just be small. 500 to 1000 figs next year. That will be a nice little side business for ya.
Wow those look great what a awesome harvest, you’re shining so hope for us down here in the south. Maybe I’ll give them a whirl although I’m a little farther south than you it would be nice to try I guess. All beans must be a cool weather kind of crap I’m assuming, I have a provider green bean that’s been doing pretty good but starting to look a little rough temperatures are hitting upper 80s to 90. Also I have what I thought was Christmas lima beans, L O L but turned out to be a small version of that I guess something called a 1500 cave been. Has not done too well. Probably too hot already
Beans don't care much for the extreme summer heat. I hardly ever grow bush beans or any kind of snap beans. We prefer peas or butterbeans for the most part.
Your onions look wonderful! Congratulations! We will be pulling our onions here in Texas zone 7 b and our garlic. I desperately try to get suggestions on what to succession plant in my 1/2 acre plot.
Great Video Travis!!! I saved it to my Watch Later playlist for easy access. I’m a first year Onion and Garlic grower getting ready to harvest next week this was perfect timing. I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and your barn set up. Much appreciated!
Appreciate the knowledge you share. I don't use any pesticides or store bought fertilizers. Trying to learn the ways without the store. However I definitely will buy the top producing varieties if able. The wheel hoe and just knowing what to look for in plant health is gold.
If you cut the garlic scapes off, they will put that energy into bulb production and not flowering. Once scapes appear there is usually about two weeks to harvest time, but judge by the leaf die back. Softneck garlic in general stores much longer than hardneck. I have some varieties that last almost a year! Unlike onions, garlic should be put in the shade to cure as soon as it is harvested or it will sun scald.
Travis, I have had shallots in the ground (raised bed) since November. Seem to have multiplied but not much size . First time to grow them, getting in the 80's this week in North Central Texas....
I'm no good with shallots. I've tried several times to grow them down here. Mine would always multiply but never cure properly and they didn't store well at all. Sorry for being so little help on the shallot issue.
Hi Travis, beautiful day for a harvest. I love your shows you do awesome. I know I'm a little late on the onions but been very sick couldn't do them this year but I'm wondering if I do them now or if it is too hot I have my garlic too couldn't do them due to illness but doing better I'm missing my garden LOL. Where is the best place to buy the PLS 595 peas? Didn't have any luck with my potatoes that I planted in the ground but had amazing results in my grow bags now that I don't understand LOL but had a great bunch of potatoes. My sweet potatoes say otherwise they love the ground LOL. Thank you for all you do and your knowledge is truly amazing. Much love from South Central Florida
Too late for onions now. You'll want to get those planted in November. If you're growing your own onion plants, start the seeds around mid to late September. The PLS 595 peas come from Johnny's Seeds.
Travis great rack they’ll get plenty of airflow and spaced well. You’ll have lots of onions and garlic to last you at least for 6 months. Soft Neck Garlic actually store well, Hard Garlic doesn’t store as long, but I’m getting some Hard Neck sprouting now, ready for replanting the bulbs. Lots of peas.... Have a great day Travis, I really enjoyed today’s video very much, naturally being Onions and Garlic Once the elephant Garlic is ready and the plot is clear will you be adding a few inches of compost on the no dig before planting the next crops?
Trav I can normally grow the big bulbs no problem but for some reason this year has been terrible.... had a unseasonably cold spring..... just seems like they won't take off... like they are stuck transplant size
Maybe not that much, but it would definitely be a good bit more than it was when I built it years ago. The hardware cloth is the expensive part. Seems that cost more than the lumber when I built it.
First Rate Travis! Time seems like it is flying by in your garden! When you put up those soft neck garlics in the barn, will you have to put the ones you want use as seed in November in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks??? Thanks. Chuck in Jensen Beach.
I do like my sweet onions, but I've been trying to find varieties that store longer. It seems that only the long day varieties have a long storage time. Last year we started freeze drying our sweet onions, which works out great for having onions to cook with year round.
The round onions will store longer than the flattened ones. From my experiences, white onions seem to store the longest. Red onions usually don't store well at all.
I forgot to mention that. The round onions will usually always store better than the granex or flattened types. So we try to eat the flattened ones first and then go to the round ones.
I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be able to ship plants with soil to Hawaii, but I was wondering if you would consider selling cuttings? We can’t grow all varieties here, but I was interested in few varieties you grew. Enjoy watching and learning from your channel.
We might sell cuttings one of these days, but I'm currently devoting anything I can cut to growing plants. Although some varieties are easy to propagate, others are quite tough. Selling plants helps make the customers much more successful as opposed to cuttings that may or may not root.
Unfortunately, I was too late for the fig tree sale. Hopefully, I can get one next year. I do have a question about fig trees. I have a volunteer fig tree that is about 3 years old. When can I expect to see fruit from this tree? It has never fruited, so I am wondering if there is a reason. The tree is about 10 feet tall now. I really enjoy your content and have learned a lot and continue to learn with each video! Thank you!
It should have definitely fruited by now. Some of our trees will produce a few fruits in the first year, but they all produce fruits by the second year. I wonder if it's a dud volunteer?
A nitrogen-fixing cover crop wouldn't hurt -- something like Balansa Fixation Clover would be good. If you could then graze that clover with chickens, it would be even better!
We put Nature Safe 8-5-5 in the furrow at planting. Once the plants started growing, we side dressed with Nature Safe 13-0-0 twice, about a month apart. We also ran some Agrothrive General Purpose through the overhead sprinkler a couple times, but I don't remember exactly when we did that.
So if your cats live with the storage rack, you could call them Pole Barn Cats. I had something worse than a polecat last night to deal with. I found a dead possum up in the back part of the property. Dug a hole about 10' away in soft soil and move it. The smell was so bad I almost threw up. Couldn't go back to cover it up until this morning. Couldn't figure out if the possum got into somebody's rat poison, a cat got it, or it was just old.
Curious what's your favorite butter bean. My grandpa always grew Jackson wonder speckled butter beans so it's all I have ever grown for sentimental reasons.
Onions from seed question here... Every time I have ever grown onions from seed they just seem to take forever to get out of that first leaf stage and start growing. Is there anything special I should be doing to boost early growth?
We start fertilizing ours when those first leaves "flip" up. Also helps to trim the tops of the seedlings -- seems to toughen up the transplants and make them more durable during transplanting.
Man those onions look great!! I’m jealous as I’ve not had a lot of luck growing them. Would love to see some videos of how you process the different produce, like how you hull peas/limas, and how you save them (canning, freezing, etc). As always, top-notch video and looking forward to Friday’s installment!!
We don't do much canning besides tomatoes. We freeze all our peas, corn, and lima beans. I'm not a huge fan of most canned vegetables.
Tennessee Ernie Ford (“The Ol’ Peapicker”) sez “BLESS YORE LIL PEAPICKIN’ HEART !” ❤️
Haha!
saw my first English pea pod today. 8a I think just a little SE of Dallas, didn't start as early as you did...AND come on people give O Travis a BIG thumbs up!!!!!!
Thanks Don! Hope your English pea harvest is bountiful!
I dearly love to eat fresh green peas, but I hate to shell them. Got roped into it a lot as a kid. Handy when it comes to brute force but not so good at fine work. I can't imagine shelling eighteen quarts but having all those peas in the freezer would be a dream come true. Good gardening there, my friend.
Jasmine Street Farm
It's not too bad. Thankfully, our babysitter helped shell some of those while watching Titus during the day.
Travis , I wanted a fig tree so badly , I didnt know you put them up and I watch every video ....
Oh boy i will be watching for your notifications fast ....
Mrs Josette Tharp
Montgomery , Texas 🙏🏻
Gotta be fast! lol
English Peas and Strawberries. One of the best times of the year. My breakfast is just walking around the garden with a cup of coffee picking at them.
Solid breakfast plan!
I wasn't so lucky with my peas. The birds ate my plants. Your onions are beautiful.
Sorry to hear about the peas. Might be time for a scarecrow! lol
Thank you Travis ,
You were blessed like Mr Danny & wanda at Deepsouth Homestead along with Hollis and Nancy Homestead in Florida .
They both talk about yall all the time .
This was my 1st year to grow 300+ onions from hoss tools and Dixondale farms here in Texas ,
We got a very bad rain storm this past monday , i know over 5 plus inches as my rain detector was over 5 inches , so Ive waited a couple days ,
But now saw you and Mr Danny pull yalls onions. He found 1 rotten ,
So i dont want to wait .
Thank you for all your great informative content
I ringed my onions and Gave them Ammonium Sulfate 21-0-0 3 bags over the growing season .
God bless you and your beautiful wife Brooklyn and family .
Mrs Josette Tharp
Montgomery County , Texas 🙏🏻
Thanks Josette. Hopefully you'll get some dry weather so you can get those onions cured.
Question. A dear friend of mine, whom is elderly, gave me a “strawberry onion “ The story goes that berry farmers use these onions for pest control in their fields. They are super sweet and very large in size. Have you heard of these or this practice or is it some ole farmer lore. Thanks. Love the channel and your website!
I have heard of those. I've actually seen a couple of them that some folks in Florida grew. Biggest onion I've ever seen in person. Wish I knew where to get the seeds.
The best Georgia grown Onion variety is the one where I can throw a couple bushels of them in the back of my truck.
Hahaha!
WHOA, BABY !!!
Are you sure you’re in Georgia?????
Congrats!!!
Please say where you got onion seeds again……thanks
www.neseed.com
Dang I missed that sale on the figs trees. Hopefully next time.
They went very fast. We'll have more next year.
Great harvest of peas and onions!! Hope you abel to con someone to help with that pea shelling😏.✌🏻
It was a family effort, but we got them all shelled in a couple days -- ended up with three gallon bags full of shelled peas.
What no 1015's ? In Southeast Texas 1015's rule , I have to grow them just to keep my Aggie neighbor's happy !
Read several places 1015 is the planting date October 15
I grew 1015s one year and they did okay. But much like the Texas Early Grano 502, they can't compete with some of these hybrid varieties. It's not a fair fight. lol
You gonna have to show us how the winter squash is going. You certainly will have enough onions to last awhile. I would have left a couple of my favorites to seed out and save the seeds. As usual Travis another good video.
We'll give a little update on the next video. The plants are looking fabulous and already producing some blooms.
Just got the Fig tree in the mail & it looks great!! Pro packaging !!!! Looking forward to planting it this weekend!! Great job Travis! Keep up the great work and appreciate chya and all your informative videos!!!
Great to hear! Thanks for your order and glad it made it there safely.
Wow the onions look amazing! My onions never get that large. I haven’t grown shelling peas yet. Thanks for the inspiration to do so. Love your growing space. I don’t have that much space. My garden is mainly raised beds, but I would like to have my entire backyard become garden space and add some fruit trees. Still working on convincing my family. Thanks for all your hard work! 👍🏻🌺
Just slowly add a little more garden each year, a little at a time, and they'll never notice. lol
I raised my slips this year in 162 cells I planted about 300 slips give sister a few them slips has done a lot better than buying I planted mostly candy onions I live in zone 6 however I can raise short day also I planted about 40 savana sweet this year to try last year I had half and half candy onions &Texas legends them slips didn’t even know they had been transplanted
Growing your own onion plants is the best!
Oh found out ... there is a guy on UA-cam.... castle hill garden.... he says look at the onions and if they have a big neck.... (base of green top) they tend to rot first so try to use them up first
He's right. That's why these red onions we have probably won't store well, but we're planning on pickling them anyways so it shouldn't matter.
I just found your channel, I love it.
Thanks Jane and welcome!
Nice onions dog. We have a hard time getting big onions here in Ky. but I still eat lots of green onions. I grow hard neck garlic and the people I buy seed stock from carry some varieties that thrive on you guys type of climate. Their Creole Group variety is fine in zones 7-10 according to this years catalog. Try them out and I’m sure you’ll throw out that old soft neck once you’ve tasted the hard neck type! Gotta go I’m tryin to work my main plot today!
Sounds like something I do need to try!
I’m sorry I didn’t post the web page for ya. The web page is www.bjgarlic.com. Good luck to ya
Yay!!! I still have a chance to order some figs!!! That made my night!
Yes, there's still a chance. But it will only be around 10-13 trees, so you're gonna have to be fast!
Outstanding results.
Thank you!
I've been pondering about the best way to pick my peas. Now I know what to do. I'm going to yank the whole plant out of the ground.
That's the way to do it! Then pick them off in the shade.
Thank you for explaining how to store crops without a cellar or basement. I don't have a pole barn, and I don't own this property, but with your explanation I think I might be able to fix something up.
That is an awesome onion harvest,I just got my Agro thrive.
Hope you like it!
Excellent video, Travis! We just pulled our onions today so there’s lots of great information here. Thanks!!
Nice! Hopefully things will stay dry so they'll cure well for you.
Congratulations on an abundant harvest!
Thanks!
I usually wait until the tops start falling over, and then I push over the entire row of onion tops onto the bulb of the onion beside it, in order to shade it from the Sun. If it stays dry, they will cure in the field. If it's rainy, I pull them and put them under a shed to finish curing. I usually scissor off the tops and roots when most of them are dry. I bag the best onions for storage and those with defects, such as bull necks, I use first.
Sounds like a solid process. I do sometimes trim the dried tops if they're hanging over the racks too much.
Onions are eye-openers! Look great buddy. How Do those peas compare to the Mr Big variety?
The pods aren't as quite as large as Mr. Big, but I definitely think it's more productive. It's also PM and DM resistant, which certainly helps down here.
The softneck garlic should easily store until Nov so you can replant it. Once the garlic bulbs are cured, are you going to store the ones for replanting in the frig or wait until Aug/Sept to put them in the frig? The onions were impressive. Mine have been battered by the extended cold we had this year. Very unusual how cold it's been this spring. I'm guessing my onions won't be ready until mid-August or they will just be small. 500 to 1000 figs next year. That will be a nice little side business for ya.
Yes, I'll probably put the garlic in the fridge around September so I can have a couple months chilling and then plant in November.
Wow those look great what a awesome harvest, you’re shining so hope for us down here in the south. Maybe I’ll give them a whirl although I’m a little farther south than you it would be nice to try I guess. All beans must be a cool weather kind of crap I’m assuming, I have a provider green bean that’s been doing pretty good but starting to look a little rough temperatures are hitting upper 80s to 90. Also I have what I thought was Christmas lima beans, L O L but turned out to be a small version of that I guess something called a 1500 cave been. Has not done too well. Probably too hot already
Beans don't care much for the extreme summer heat. I hardly ever grow bush beans or any kind of snap beans. We prefer peas or butterbeans for the most part.
Your onions look wonderful! Congratulations! We will be pulling our onions here in Texas zone 7 b and our garlic. I desperately try to get suggestions on what to succession plant in my 1/2 acre plot.
Thanks Preston!
Great Video Travis!!! I saved it to my Watch Later playlist for easy access. I’m a first year Onion and Garlic grower getting ready to harvest next week this was perfect timing. I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and your barn set up. Much appreciated!
Glad it was helpful!
Appreciate the knowledge you share. I don't use any pesticides or store bought fertilizers. Trying to learn the ways without the store. However I definitely will buy the top producing varieties if able. The wheel hoe and just knowing what to look for in plant health is gold.
Agreed. Being able to diagnose what a plant is needing is a very helpful skill to have.
I can only hope I can do as good a job as you growing onions. Just about time to get them in the ground up here. Maybe this weekend
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You got this!
Question about the storage table. We are growing potatoes. What do you do about possible critters?
We have barn cats that take care of any critters.
If you cut the garlic scapes off, they will put that energy into bulb production and not flowering. Once scapes appear there is usually about two weeks to harvest time, but judge by the leaf die back. Softneck garlic in general stores much longer than hardneck. I have some varieties that last almost a year! Unlike onions, garlic should be put in the shade to cure as soon as it is harvested or it will sun scald.
All good points Steve! Thanks.
Nice I just started 150-ft row of onions and shallots got my fingers crossed
Go big or go home!
Travis, I have had shallots in the ground (raised bed) since November. Seem to have multiplied but not much size . First time to grow them, getting in the 80's this week in North Central Texas....
I'm no good with shallots. I've tried several times to grow them down here. Mine would always multiply but never cure properly and they didn't store well at all. Sorry for being so little help on the shallot issue.
Thanks
Yummy!!! They look great!!
Thank you 😋
I am up to about 1/4 of my onions already bolting. Such weird weather this year! Your onions look great, and that is quite a pea harvest!
Sorry to hear about the bolting. At least you've got plenty to eat right now!
Awesome job on the garlic!! I still have 3 months to go till mine are close. Onions look great too!
Awesome! Thank you!
Looking good and congrats on the pea and onion harvest!
Thanks Joe!
Everything looks awesome. Thanks for posting
Thanks for watching!
Just added NE seeds to my seed list of store's for next year. Onions look awesome, great job! Definitely going to try again.
They've got some good varieties!
Thanks for sharing. Very helpful and may need to try these onion varieties this fall.🙏😎🏖🏝
I think you'll be pleased if you do!
Super crop. What cha gonna do with all those onions?
Eat some, give some away ...
We missed the tree, we were at the hospital all day. Would you do preorders for them please?
Hope everyone is okay. Next year we plan on having many more so that they're not gone in just a few hours.
@@LazyDogFarm no sir? I fell like you and broke my back. L5 now we start that crazy process. Preparing for surgery now.
I’m very interested in purchasing a fig tree. I was not aware you were selling them. Zone 8b. Thanks!
Hopefully we'll have about 10-13 more that we'll release, but be sure to watch the videos as they air because those will certainly go fast.
Hi Travis, beautiful day for a harvest. I love your shows you do awesome. I know I'm a little late on the onions but been very sick couldn't do them this year but I'm wondering if I do them now or if it is too hot I have my garlic too couldn't do them due to illness but doing better I'm missing my garden LOL. Where is the best place to buy the PLS 595 peas?
Didn't have any luck with my potatoes that I planted in the ground but had amazing results in my grow bags now that I don't understand LOL but had a great bunch of potatoes. My sweet potatoes say otherwise they love the ground LOL. Thank you for all you do and your knowledge is truly amazing. Much love from South Central Florida
Too late for onions now. You'll want to get those planted in November. If you're growing your own onion plants, start the seeds around mid to late September. The PLS 595 peas come from Johnny's Seeds.
Travis great rack they’ll get plenty of airflow and spaced well.
You’ll have lots of onions and garlic to last you at least for 6 months.
Soft Neck Garlic actually store well, Hard Garlic doesn’t store as long, but I’m getting some Hard Neck sprouting now, ready for replanting the bulbs.
Lots of peas....
Have a great day Travis, I really enjoyed today’s video very much, naturally being Onions and Garlic
Once the elephant Garlic is ready and the plot is clear will you be adding a few inches of compost on the no dig before planting the next crops?
We usually only add compost in late summer / early fall. We'll be planting sweet potatoes where the garlic is now.
Trav I can normally grow the big bulbs no problem but for some reason this year has been terrible.... had a unseasonably cold spring..... just seems like they won't take off... like they are stuck transplant size
Ours looked like that from November almost all to the end of December. But they finally got going.
@@LazyDogFarm think the warm weather helps....
That drying rack is probably $1200 at today's lumber prices
Maybe not that much, but it would definitely be a good bit more than it was when I built it years ago. The hardware cloth is the expensive part. Seems that cost more than the lumber when I built it.
First Rate Travis! Time seems like it is flying by in your garden!
When you put up those soft neck garlics in the barn, will you have to put the ones you want use as seed in November in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks???
Thanks. Chuck in Jensen Beach.
Yes, I'll probably actually put them in the fridge around September so I can then plant in November.
Take care
Thanks Izzy!
I do like my sweet onions, but I've been trying to find varieties that store longer. It seems that only the long day varieties have a long storage time. Last year we started freeze drying our sweet onions, which works out great for having onions to cook with year round.
The round onions will store longer than the flattened ones. From my experiences, white onions seem to store the longest. Red onions usually don't store well at all.
savanah sweet did well for us, so did the cougar. would like to try DP sweet next season
Cougar was pretty good for us too from what I remember.
You've addressed onion size and taste but what about longevity?
I forgot to mention that. The round onions will usually always store better than the granex or flattened types. So we try to eat the flattened ones first and then go to the round ones.
Oneday, I want to grow onions. I always start them and then give up on them.
They take quite a bit of patience, but so worth it if you stick with them.
Where did u get the English pea seeds?
Johnny's Seeds
How did the cut vs no cut onions turn out?
I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be able to ship plants with soil to Hawaii, but I was wondering if you would consider selling cuttings? We can’t grow all varieties here, but I was interested in few varieties you grew. Enjoy watching and learning from your channel.
We might sell cuttings one of these days, but I'm currently devoting anything I can cut to growing plants. Although some varieties are easy to propagate, others are quite tough. Selling plants helps make the customers much more successful as opposed to cuttings that may or may not root.
Unfortunately, I was too late for the fig tree sale. Hopefully, I can get one next year. I do have a question about fig trees. I have a volunteer fig tree that is about 3 years old. When can I expect to see fruit from this tree? It has never fruited, so I am wondering if there is a reason. The tree is about 10 feet tall now. I really enjoy your content and have learned a lot and continue to learn with each video! Thank you!
It should have definitely fruited by now. Some of our trees will produce a few fruits in the first year, but they all produce fruits by the second year. I wonder if it's a dud volunteer?
Travis do you ever cut the foliage or roots off your onions, or do you just leave them be and cut it off before you eat them?
I usually just leave them be.
Is there any kinda cover crop that can help them do better next year?
A nitrogen-fixing cover crop wouldn't hurt -- something like Balansa Fixation Clover would be good. If you could then graze that clover with chickens, it would be even better!
@@LazyDogFarm I am not allowed chickens yet lol
Where did you get those sapilow sweets? I can only do bulbs around here in Central New York
We got the Sapelo Sweet variety from NE Seeds. But since it's a short-day onion, it wouldn't do well up there in NY.
Thanks for your reply. Do you have any suggestions
Which video has your fertilizing schedule? Also what you fertilize with.
We put Nature Safe 8-5-5 in the furrow at planting. Once the plants started growing, we side dressed with Nature Safe 13-0-0 twice, about a month apart. We also ran some Agrothrive General Purpose through the overhead sprinkler a couple times, but I don't remember exactly when we did that.
So if your cats live with the storage rack, you could call them Pole Barn Cats. I had something worse than a polecat last night to deal with. I found a dead possum up in the back part of the property. Dug a hole about 10' away in soft soil and move it. The smell was so bad I almost threw up. Couldn't go back to cover it up until this morning. Couldn't figure out if the possum got into somebody's rat poison, a cat got it, or it was just old.
We see a possum around here every now and then. The animals usually run them off. I bet that was a stinky mess!
Curious what's your favorite butter bean. My grandpa always grew Jackson wonder speckled butter beans so it's all I have ever grown for sentimental reasons.
I prefer the climbing types because they're so much easier to pick. We really like Christmas Lima Beans.
where did he say he got the onion seeds from?
Right here: www.neseed.com
How about intermediate onions? Which red and white do you say is best in size and flavor?
Never grown any intermediate-day varieties, so tough to say.
Travis, doesn't the humidity cause them to spoil faster?
I'm sure it has some effect, but not much we can do about the humidity. I don't have anywhere indoors to store that many onions.
Living in NE I'm not sure I've been in a house with no basement before lol
So much useful space.
Is it too wet in the south or something?
Yeah the soils are too damp.
How’s ur corn doing? U haven’t said anything about it since u planted. It hasn’t been included in ur garden tour???
Had to replant some because of the heavy rains we got right after planting. But it's looking pretty good. I'll try to give an update soon.
Onions from seed question here... Every time I have ever grown onions from seed they just seem to take forever to get out of that first leaf stage and start growing. Is there anything special I should be doing to boost early growth?
We start fertilizing ours when those first leaves "flip" up. Also helps to trim the tops of the seedlings -- seems to toughen up the transplants and make them more durable during transplanting.
You are supposed to cut the scapes off the garlic otherwise they won't produce bulbs.
I usually only add compost in late summer / early fall. We'll be putting sweet potatoes where the garlic is now.
Is there a way to cure if you don't get a stretch of no rain?
Travis did talk about this. Keep them dry and with air circulation. I put mine on a workbench in the garage for a week or 2.
What Steve said. We could basically cure them on that rack under our barn if we wanted, but the sunlight just helps speed the process.
Reserve the lsu gold for me!!
We should have two more LSU Golds available, but you gotta be quick. They're gonna go fast.
I thought you weren’t suppose to store taters and onions together cause it makes them spoil sooner.
We've never had any issues. We put them on different racks. Maybe the open air prevents any issues?
@@LazyDogFarm that makes sense