I'm so jealous I can hardly stand it! Those look delicious!

Yup, rrrrrub it in...

;o)

Dan

I think in many ways, they can be our easiest crop.

It really does help to start them indoors because they cannot handle weed competition. Actually, they can handle it - all too well. They just "fit right in" with whatever crowd shows up! Which means, they can't grow!

Given enuf opportunity, they can and will grow!

When they are tiny, they transplant real well. If it freezes, the onions are usually just fine.

Sweets especially make awfully nice green onions during the weeks they are of that size. By planting sets as my earliest crop and growing both sweets and bunching onions also, there's a loooong season of green onions from my garden. After they form bulbs, the sweets will last until Christmas in my basement.

Other than to keep the weedy crowd away from them, about the only "secret" of growing onions that I know is to treat them like lawn grass. If you want a lush lawn, give it lots of fertilizer and water. I feed them an organic lawn fertilizer - high nitrogen.

Onions! I wish all vegetables were so easy to grow.

Steve

Steve, do you cut the tops back when you set them out?

I have David.

But, not usually . . . tho' the reason behind it seems sensible. As you can see from that picture of the onions in the snow, they were starting to get too tall before they went into the garden. However, they were out there in fairly short order after than snow.

As long as they can straighten themselves once transplanted, I don't think shearing the tops is necessary.

Steve

Beautiful! I love how easy onions and garlic are to grow here. I've got shallots in this year and they take so little effort, it's amazing.