I just can't afford to buy plants to transplant any more. They are priced any where from $3.00 to $10.00 a pot. I have an acre, so I just started buying seeds. So far so good. Some are ready to transplant now.
My space is to small to do transplants so doing direct seed 🤞I do have potato starts and onion starts and have 7 large above ground beds ( I have mole issues and rabbits so I did above ground beds with hardwire in bottom and chicken wire around top of beds to keep out rabbits) growing in abundance hoping to have enough to feed my family. Doing 20 wicking tubs also hope that’s enough doing suctioning planting
I had a step dad that grew onions in our garden in New Mexico. He was a truck driver and could only stop sometimes but not regularly. Still we gave him a section for the onion and truly his onions were amazing!. He came from Tennessee and knew much more than us. I’ve still trying to figure out how he did that. Thanks for your help !
Travis, I am all in! My knees are full of wonderful smelling Amite, Louisiana "dirt". Today, we just set out six, single drilled, forty foot rows (480 transplants) of various Hoss supplied onion seed varieties. As always, we reap fantastic germination on Hoss Seeds. The rows were set at 18" spacing with 6 inches between plants. I plant on the flat. Seeds were transplanted from 338 cell trays under buried drip tape with an injection of 20-20-20 and Micro-Boost. The varieties we planted were Sweet Harvest, Plethora, Yellow Granex, and Red Creole. I can hear them growing now. The wheel plows are ready to roll. Garlic and leeks awaiting too. Fantastic video!👍
Fantastic content Hoss! Thanks so much; you really helped me - I live adjacent to a salt marsh in zone 8b - near the delineation from intermediate to short - day. Not a farm; I just enjoying gardening. Greetings from Virginia Beach, VA. 😊 All the best to you!
I live in 7a/b. My onions are going in the ground this week and plan on using row covers when the temp drops. We had 20 degree temps for nearly 60 hrs, 2 weeks ago and all my cauliflower and broccoli survived using row covers and incandescent string lights. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
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@@workphone4210 what ever! I WILL puke before I eat a can of winter peas out of a can. I will eat fresh. I refuse to hide in a cave eating canned goods. Me and whoever will just have it out and it will be over quick either way.
Can't believe I drifted away from this channel. I have ordered from HOSS. I will be ordering again. Really enjoyed the video Travis thank you for all of your helpful knowledge and insight.
Had a lot of success last year with my onions using your technics Trav, I'm hoping for even better results this time with a year of knowledge under my belt.
Thank you for this very helpful, much-needed video. I appreciate that you provided a map on where to grow short, intermediate and long day onions and listed on your new website which onions to use. I just love your new website! It has so much information and much easier to navigate. You make it simple for the small, beginning gardener with all your experience.
Found your channel recently when looking up the heavy duty trays. I'm glad I found it since you and your father give excellent information and advice to help anyone from a novice gardener, homesteader, or novices looking to get into farming. Look forward to seeing a lot more of your videos.
Even an old gardener like me can learn something new. I didn’t realize I was trying to grow long day onions here in Northeast Oklahoma. In my defense, I spent so many years in Wyoming, it just didn’t occur to me that the same onions I grew there wouldn’t perform well here. Guess I’ll be visiting your site to get some different seeds. LOL
This was a learning thing for me too this year. I had no idea about long day and short day onions until I started researching the varieties I wanted to grow. I recently moved from a long day to short day growing zone so I'm relearning a whole lot! I can't wait for my onion seedlings to look as good as his! 🙏
Wow, you schooled me well. I'm a happy camper. 'll be growing onions for the first time this coming spring...short day onions for my zone 8a here in Central Texas. Thanks for the great info.!🙂
Getting ready to plant mine next week. I’ve been following your guidance for over 3 years and the difference is undeniable. I’ve got to tighten up my fungicide program however. I’ve got the stuff just need to get on it earlier and stay regular with it. Great video Travis.
Thanks you for sharing your experience with Onions. you explain almost perfectly about growing Onions. Thanks you for helping us to grow our own food. This is a great video.
Moultrie ga. here have grown onions for years have 375 sweet onions in the ground now. Just got me my first. 32 rack greenhouse my garden is 50 yards by 100 yards. This year I planted my onions 14 inches apart to give them a lot of room and do not like grass in my garden. I have a semi deep well with a good irrigation system . I grow more than we cam put up. Love ya show.
Wow! You really lay out some great info! And you get right to the point; no messing around. Glad, too, that I found a source for 20-20-20 fertilizer. Enjoyed every minute.
I’ve grown onions both by seeding into trays and buying plants and you are spot on, the self grown plants take off a lot quicker. I’ve been trying without success to grow Cippolini type onions at my latitude (34 degrees) where I can only grow short day onions.
@@gardeningwithhoss Yeah, I was afraid of that. I’m guessing you guys are at about 32 degrees latitude, worse off than I am when it comes to onion growing. Closest I’ve come is with “Flat of Italy” a purple. variety that yielded about 10% bulbs and 90% were straight as a board, no bulb whatsoever. I’ll keep trying until I find something that works.
We bought one of your planters this winter. I can't wait to try it out. Our traditional day to plant our early garden is St. Patrick's Day. I usually buy onion sets. They seem to start much quicker than dried out onion plants.
Egyptian Walking onions can be planted any time the ground is not frozen, and do fine over winter. I am in zone 6b, and they do great year round. I wish they were strong flavored onions though.
This is a really great video. I realize that you are selling your stuff but...you offer great and honest advice regardless if someone is going to buy from you or not. It's great to see your integrity compared to todays fast shuffle and slight of hand selling presentations the public endures today. I wish you great success. You are doing a great service for those who view your channel.
I’m a first time grower and just Bought candy onions. Because of above and under ground critters I plant everything in fabric grow bags and doing the same with the onions (even though they don’t like them anyway) so any garden you plant, how do you keep the critters from eatting underground roots? I have it all. Squirrels chipmunks moles voles gophers and now deer. Great channel with tons of info and advice. I’m new so you probably covered this on other videos…sorry if you did. Thank you.
Hello. Thanks for the video. I'm in Ohio and have tried to grow onions from seed and got only green onions. I also purchased onion starts from another company and those onions grow a lot faster and gave me a fantastic crop. The onions I grew from seed took a really long time to get going. I believe they were started in March indoors. I fed and watered them both of the onions at the same time. In my zone, It's best for me to grow long day onions because of how much sunlight they get during the day. There are still some onions in my garden as of today. They purposely were left there as an experiment to see if they will grow into a large bulb this year or turn to seed. Those onions are the size of green onions and are also the ones I started in March of last year. It is now January 2024 and they honestly have not grown very much.
Hands down as always great in depth video. I have yalls 162 and 338 trays I got some of yalls short day onion seed . I got 100 % germination on the cougars and Savannah sweets. Also got 30lbs of yalls ammonium sulfate
Central Ohio here, just planted the onions and garlic that sprouted in the vegetable bin; will overnight them in the garage in the flower pots that used to have mums from last fall. Not a gardener but now that I'm retired, think it might be fun to pretend I know what I'm doing!
I got my onions from Rural King. They had several big bags that had some starting to spoil so they put them on clearance. I literally got two bags with over a hundred bulbs in each for ten cents each bag. A couple hundred good onion sets casted me less than a quarter lol. Keep checking the stores and you can find deals on plants and seeds.
Such a complete video. You did such a good job. It’s March 4th here in North Carolina and I’m planting my onions today. Next year I’ll go from seed. Appreciate such a good instructional video.
Best onion video EVER! And I’ve watched lots out here on RU-vid. Thanks for the link to the onions tha will do well in Georgia, I’m ordering some for sure. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙂🙂🙂
I bought two bundles of green onions from the store to plant for harvesting the green tops to eat with meals. When they finally bloom you get a ton of seeds. I have leeks and purple onion seedlings growing now. The leeks are looking good but they`re still only about 6 or 7 inches tall. My hobby used to be collecting various wild onions/garlic which included purple and green walking onions when I traveled playing in a band. I planted all these varieties in the same patch and got some strange hybrids from them. I had to leave the patch behind when I moved. There are no wild onions around my lot now. I can`t afford a car so I`m stranded here.
I look forward to getting all 3 variaties onions, I purchased from yall - oh boy 150 onions 1st , I'm amending my dirt getting it prepared for delivery & planting my garlic also , Thank you so much , I got my seeds I ordered SUPER FAST , YOU SURE ARE A GREAT COMPANY! God bless yall Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
I just found some Walla Walla onion seedlings at the market this morning. So excited, as I've never found them in NZ before. Then found this video. I'm sure hoping it's the right type of onion for this area! Have subscribed. You were so thorough and informative. Thank you!!!
Got a new sub neighbor.! I'm north of you in Dawson County. Been growing flowers of all kinds for decades but just now have a sunny spot for a kitchen garden. Boy, do I have a lot to learn! I've developed a spot by siting a poplar trunk across the slope, laying heavy cardboard, wood chips, chicken manure & alfalfa pellets. Then I got 2 1/2 yards of landscape mix over this 18'×8' area. Rabbit fence going up this w/e & sent a sample to extension for testing. Jumping in w/ both feet here, wish me luck!
Thank you for using the Southern term { OKRIE } ....Its next to impossible for me to call it OKRA! From the time that I was old enough to talk, I’ve known it to be Okrie! 😃
I’m in zone 3a, I’ve had some onions that I’ve missed picking in the fall, and they’ve managed to start growing again in the spring, I haven’t tried to plant my onions in the fall, I still plant in the spring
Green onions are the easiest to grow...Just buy some organic green onions...cut off the green tops & place the white bottoms in the ground. You'll have green onions growing in 2 weeks. U can do the same with onions. U just have to cut the bottom part off that have the roots on the bottom. Put those in dirt and they will grow onions it will just take a lot longer probably 6 months. You can take celery bottoms plant those and it will reproduce celery stocks. I also plant my potato peels plant those & yes potatoes will grow from potatoes. I think there's about 10 veggies you can buy from the grocery store and replant. that will reproduce. I live in San Diego and grow veggies all year around in our garden.
I've had the same green onions growing for 4 years now in a 5 gallon bucket. Bought them from Walmart produce section. Haven't bought anymore since. Can't kill those bastards either. I cut what I need, and in a week it's tall again.
Thank you so much ordering my Sweet onions for my state in Texas, God bless yall Found you through Texasprepper2, and Deepsouth Homestead Mr. Danny & Wanda... Be safe Preparing my 1/4 acre . Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
I have old onion's that I have purchased from! the market, and that have already started to grow, so I am going to plant them when the weather gets right, in my raised bed garden. Thank you
7-10 days is one of the shortest germination times I'm aware of for popular garden veggies. I think the more valid (validder?) reasons for starting indoors are that onions do not do well against competition (weeds). You touched on that one. Another reason is for us in the north, using long-day onions: We can't start them in the fall/winter, since they might be killed off by severe cold. They're hardy, but not THAT hardy. Therefore, given onions' long days to maturity, we need to give them a head start indoors so that they've grown enough topside to support the bulb development triggered by 14 or 16-hour day lengths once that sweet summertime has finally settled in.
Excellent video on growing onions. I learned the variety I should be concentrating on, the time of year to plant seeds and how to feed the shoots once they’ve germinated. I definitely will be looking forward to learning from your other videos, especially how to grow elephant garlic.
Great video. I will receive my onion plants from Dixondale in a couple days. Texas Legend. I’m in SW Fla. I’m looking forward to seeing your results on the eight varieties. I may try to grow my own onion plants for fall of next year. Again, thanks for sharing your knowledge on growing in the south.
I just put them in a container, just because we don’t always use onions so just a few like 5 or a little more is fine for my family… first year though growing onions & from seed… this will be my second year though growing vegetables… thanks for the help with this video it’s very much appreciated!
How do you deal with fungus knats on your onions? I grew some two years ago from seed and was a total loss. Had relatively good results from onion sets the past two years. I never quite get the big bulbs I’m looking for. Maybe I’m just using the wrong type I will check and see if I have been growing long day onions. Thanks for doing such an in-depth video. 👍
Haven't had any issues with fungus gnats one they're in the ground. Some folks have issues with them when growing the transplants, but that can usually be solved pretty easily by covering the seeds with perlite in the trays.
I know I used the miracle grow seed starting mix. Possible the larvae were in the soil. I have heard that if you cover the seeds with vermiculite it will help. I will give this a go this spring and see if I can get some nice onions from seed.
Granular Mosquito bites, 2 tablespoons jn a gallon water let sit overnight strain, water top of soil gnats are only down in first 1nch it should take 2 applications 7 days apart
I don't know what you mean by plant but I just bought five lb onion bulbs and they had a huge variety and I got a pound of each they were $2 a pound I didn't think that was too bad but I do like the idea of growing from seeds and I might just do that next year but I'm planning on planting these this year and I'm going to listen to you to try to get some insight on the best way to grow them cuz I do want them softball-size if it all possible thanks for the video
Very informative sir! I think you covered it all! Folks, don't ignore stopping that fertilizer when bulbing starts, thinking you are doing them a favor! You ain't! They have what they need by then. That's going to be a heap of beautiful onions!
I like buying flowers.thry so pretty! And I like growing veggies and strawberries by seeds and the bare roots for strawberries. I tryed strawberry seeds and did not germinate
It is very informative, can you also tell me more about the seed starter mix ratio, what is the substrate (peat moss + perlite or other minerals) and what is the percentage mix, kindly tell about the entire seedling process to get to the level of this video, have you done chopping of the leaves before getting to this level, a little more information about the seedling would be a great help. Thanks in Advance, Satish...
My onions overwinter in Michigan. Granted, they had been growing since early summer, had not yet bulbed up - planted from bagged sets. Large enough to harvest this spring.
I watched hollis and Nancy from Catalina and grew big wala wala.i bought some and I grew softball size onions which is very unusual cause I live outside of houston.very unusual I no maybe I just got lucky.
I get my onion local that a guy plants at his house. They are always awesome. He says he gives them several hair cuts before I purchase them from him. He uses a ice cream pale and just plucks and counts them out . Do you trim yours back too? I never realized they grow back .
