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Two problems with onions

Posted by dixielib z6/7 Ga (My Page) on
Tue, Aug 18, 09 at 19:31

First, let me admit I am a very casual onion gardner...just stick them in the ground with some bone meal and let 'em rip.

Last year I planted some little onions that were in the seed store early spring. They were a Georgia Sweet something or other. They grew to 2 or 3 inches across and were very good tasting. This year, did the same thing. About half of them got to about 2 inches across and were pretty hot tasting. The rest of them only got to about 1 inch across and are still sitting in my garden...guess I am waiting for a miracle.

Questions: what can I do to get sweeter onions? Can I save my little onions (which are pretty much sitting on top of the soil) and replant them when the weather gets a little cooler, or save and replant next spring?

I didn't do anything different this year from last, so don't know why the difference.

Thanks, Susan


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RE: Two problems with onions

Georgia Sweets is a Bonnie marketing name for The Yellow Granex, a short day onion which is one of the many cultivars sold as Vidalia onions. Onions are biennials so if you replant them they will remember their age and go to seed (bolt)in late winter early spring. Fresh plants can be planted in late winter, but late fall planting is the norm south of I 20. In the Vidalia growing area they are planted in late fall for harvest in late March thru early May. Soil and growing conditions are the major factors after cultivars. They need to grow fast and in a low sulphur soil.


 
 

 

 


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