Onions

[Maverickpro201]

When do you plant your sweet onion seed?  

[Dutch]

Late winter or early in the spring.  You have to be able to work the ground.

[ness]

Onions didn't make the cut in my garden. Tried them 2 or 3 times, from transplants, sets and seeds. The biggest were about the size of a golf ball or maybe a little bigger. Not worth it for me. 

[Johnsfolly]

27 minutes ago, ness said:

Onions didn't make the cut in my garden. Tried them 2 or 3 times, from transplants, sets and seeds. The biggest were about the size of a golf ball or maybe a little bigger. Not Wirth it for me. 

Same with us and ditto with trying garlic. Both onions and garlic are cheap produce. So not worth the trouble of growing them ourselves. Potatoes are fun to dig and find them but also we never got great yield.

[ness]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Same with us and ditto with trying garlic. Both onions and garlic are cheap produce. So not worth the trouble of growing them ourselves. Potatoes are fun to dig and find them but also we never got great yield.

We've done garlic a few times, and I'm toying with the idea this year. Yes, it's readily available and cheap, but there are some interesting varieties and the size of heads we got was decent. It's also kinda fun to have something going over the winter. 

[Johnsfolly]

30 minutes ago, ness said:

We've done garlic a few times, and I'm toying with the idea this year. Yes, it's readily available and cheap, but there are some interesting varieties and the size of heads we got was decent. It's also kinda fun to have something going over the winter. 

Good luck. I do agree about the variety possibilities being a reason to try to grow them. Ours just never got more that a few small cloves per head. We didn't have a great spot due to high shading in the afternoons and I wasn't really considering getting rid of the mature trees in our yard just for the garden. Also did have a decent selection of varieties at the farmer's market.

[Quillback]

I planted onions one time from sets, planted them in the spring and they came in well.  I planted what was supposed to be some sort of super sweet variety but the onions I got were just plain old white onions, nothing special about them.  If they had been really sweet like Vidalias I would plant them again, but as you all have noted, plain white onions are cheap at the store.

[Dutch]

I always planted yellow from sets. A 40’ row gave 2 families all we could use during the winter.