We use self-rising cornmeal for our fire ants, works great. They eat it and kaboom, they are finished! Hope that will help because you have helped me so much. Thank you for all you do. 💕
MY grandmother would cut the bottom off where the roots are and let it dry just a little and then planted that. It grew into a decent size onion. That's how she kept a crop growing.
Great looking onions Danny! We did some trials this year with onions we grew from seeds and plants we bought. And like you, the ones grown from seed just seem to do better. The Texas Legend always does well for us over in here in GA, and we like it because it stores a little longer than some of the flatter, granex onions. However, the Sweet Harvest variety did produce the largest onions from any of the varieties we planted.
@@DeepSouthHomestead I have a cart full im ordering in the morning , it says they will start shipping the onions in Nov I believe , just disappointed I can't get Strawberries here in Texas , they won't ship here ( Strawberries) do you know another company that would Danny ? God bless you 🙏🏻 Planning on planting Garlic & onions for the 1st time all because of you & Wanda... Thank you so much , the prices keep rising each day , it's horrible... Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
Danny those onions can you let a couple of onions go to seed to save the seeds for next year. With the crazy times we're heading into. I'm looking into saving seeds and not relying on the feed store.??
@@creinicke1000 You are welcome! Also, if you don't know, if you live in USA your local County Extension Service is a wealth of knowledge and most services are free to the public. All County Extension Services are a partnership between a State Agricultural University and County Government.
Those are some amazing looking onions, Danny! Glad to see you're gonna get a fabulous harvest from them. Thank you so much for sharing. Mine are going out this weekend. Much love and blessings!
Morning y'all, boy it looks like that row cover did it's job, just getting ready to put our onions out, believe we'll give this a try... I hate weeds ..LOL ! Thanks.. May God Bless!
Thats some nice size onions, wow!! I do believe Im gonna try growing ours with the ground cover, thanks for sharing yet another great video. Blessings Yall
Diatomaceous Earth - food grade DE - is supposed to be very uncomfortable for ants and can be put right on the soil under the cloth. It is a fossilized algae and the microscopic shards get all into the insects' hard bodies and cause them problems, but people eat DE as a dewormer, for the same reason. The food grade is food safe.
Have you tried DE and or Boric acid. I’ve seen a number of borax based ant bait videos as well. The best control of ants I’ve had was mixing boric acid and cornmeal. The ants take it back to the nest and it kills the queen.
Very nice onion's. My dad would bring Walla Walla sweet's home every fall when he went hunting. They got as big as grapefruit's. Best onion ever. So glad/happy that you 2 haven't had any damage from the tornado's. Prayers for everyone that's been hit already and for everyone from tornado's in the future. Stay safe and healthy. God bless.
Ya know that black fabric is a form of Eden method without the wood chips. Paul Gautschi said as long as the soil is covered that's what important. To protect the top soil. Now the way he does his builds the soil over a long time. Even so as long as it's a cover on it, anything will work. Now those fire ants ain't no joke. I sat in a nest of those in a tobacco patch when I was a kid. Lesson learned 👍
Down here in Texas we also have fire ants pretty bad. The secret is to apply a good amount of dried molasses over your affected area. this works from gardens to suburban lawns. they hate the stuff and will get away from it as fast as they can. you can find this at alot of feeds stores. I hope this helps. orange oil and water works too but will burn the roots of whatever its near
I’ve been following y’all for 4 years now and I can vouch for y’all that those are the biggest y’all have grown. I have 1015 sweet onions that are bulking up nicely too but I think I’m going to try those from Hoss from seed for next year. Please do a taste review when you slice em.
If I have just a few plants I want to protect from ants (like a few watermelon hills or a plant I'm growing for seed) I'll put cinnamon around them and it helps.
I came up in SeTX and have spent a fair amount of time warning my northern and west coast friends away from fire ant mounds when in their territory, then explaining myself at length. Usually a small nearby stick comes in handy for demonstration purposes. It's always wild to see the look on their face when I describe how fast we learn how to strip when we're 'in ants' especially once they see how fast those boogers can swarm. Those onions look fantastic, and impervious to your fire ant invasion, thank goodness. ~
I may have to try that. I grow many wonderful things in the garden, but never onions. They look healthy, the get huge beautiful green tops, and when I pull them up they are the size of peas. I've tried every variety I can find, and I planted them every way I can think of.
Try old fashioned grits, not the instant grits. But sprinkle those around and those ants will eat the grits and when they get drinks of water those grits swell up inside them and kill them. It worked for my family when we lived in Florida and had to deal with those god awful fire ants. Alot of natives swore by it and we tried and it worked. Beautiful onions
Just cut a 1inch slice sideways and pull that beautiful onion through. I had great success with B2E in Georgia. My greenhouse did have trbl with ants but I gave a dozen chickens access to keep them controlled.
I totally get your fire ant issue. We have them here too. Tried back to Eden and had the same problem, also with piles of manure and mulch. I will be watching more of your garden videos. Love y'all from here in North Alabama.
We had given up on onions after having them go to mush in our raised beds. These make me want to try again. Despite the ants, we have done well with this cover product also - did our Danny corn, okra, beans and even sweet potatoes with it last year and everything did well.
Just trim the tops back on the broke over ones and they will do fine. Same with the Texas ones trim them all back a good bit and it will kick in the bulb growth. Only thing you loosing is some green and you can chop that up and put in freezer. Plus I'm sure you got a stash of green onion growing anyway.
I've grown in woven plastic for a couple of years, with great success. I garden a good hundred miles North of the 44th parallel. Our saving grace is that during the growing season we have a much longer amount of daylight. My Celebrity tomatoes did exceptionally well in plastic. With your suggestion, I'm going to plant my onions in plastic. It'll be around Memorial Day before I get to plant. We're heaving heavy frost almost every night.
Those are some pretty onions Danny and Wanda! Mine didn't do too good but it's no wonder. I started out thinking I could grow them any ole time so I planted my sets in the spring. I think ya gotta do it in the fall and harvest in spring, like garlic.
Im really looking forward to trying weedless next year. I did my first 6x12 onion bed this year and its by far my most useful crop :) To keep them from falling over I was thinking of tightening up the spacing, and in a perfect world setting up a scrog above them. Thanks for sharing.
The onions look so good!!! About the ants, I have heard they don’t like cinnamon. Also, I saw on RU-vid a lady pokes skewers down into their tunnels and that makes them leave. A friend of mine put baking soda on the den and poured vinegar on it. I’ve heard people put rice on the dens. After they eat the rice they bloat and die. Who knows but might be worth a try.
Danny, I tried what Leadfarmer73 showed and I saw one from Louisiana where you take a shovel full of fire ants from one area and take to a 2nd. They fight and kill each other off. I live in Mobile where those pesky ants thrive too.
New to your channel. Thanks for this. Last year I was able to purchase the same fabric material with holes already in it - about 4 across. My onions were so big I had to cut slits to expand the holes to get them out. I did use some drip irrigation under the fabric. We have to grow long day where I am. Copra seem to do the best and store really well.
Amdro is probably the only chemical that I use in my yard. I can't do the fireants. I have nerve damage so I get seriously ate up and usually don't know until my foot and leg turns black. Not good.
Amdro is the only thing that actually kils them. Other ,methods just cause them to move over a few feet. Amdro works. I hate to use it at all, but I've no choice. We grow organic, but I can't abide Fire Ants.
Danny i found a wsy to kill fire ants naturally. Medina's Pure Orange Oil. 2 tbsp of oil to a gallon of water...Saturate the mound at dusk especially the high point in the mound where the queen lives . Works everytime. The oil is a bit expensive at $32.00 for 32oz but completely worth it. I use it in a garden sprayer to ensure i saturate the mounds. Hope this helps
@@DeepSouthHomestead Thank You very much. I just ordered those seeds. I followed your sweet potato videos and got a bumper crop last year. I will give the onions a try. Thank You again.
Thanks for sharing you can use hand soap under that roll cover. Or just in between isles non toxic and it will help and believe it or not it wont taste like soap either someone told me you could just put it at the end of the rolls on poles but i never tried that
Chickens do wonders on ants. We have biting red ants here in the central valley of California. My tried using poison and it would not work. Then one year the neighbor's chickens came over and started on one end of the yard and worked their way around the shop to the barn. No more ants. Now we have some chickens and no ants.
Oh, the fire ants are truly unbelievable!! You are right !! I pulled back my black plastic to find dozens of vole/mole holes, ant colonies and a couple of snakes! My dads garden where I planted onions is pretty much sand, I think so my onions aren't doing well! Sand dries as hard as concrete around them and nutrition washes away every time I put fertilizer on them it gully rains😩 mine have to go in beds next time! No joke though, mutant ants and mosquitos, in the south!
I only have a small back yard garden and when they hill up in it, I keep messing with the hill which seems to make them move location. It is all I can do because I'm not using ant killer in my garden.
We start any wars. You take a shovel full off the top of one hill and put it on another. They kill each other. Try to do hills that are far apart. Works ok all natural and free.
So did you start your onions in the greenhouse? If so when? Or were they directly sowed in the ground ? If so when? We live about two hrs north of you.
You have heard of French onion soup. Well I make American Onion Soup. Here is how; cut 4 large onions into chunks and put in a dutch oven with 2 T of butter, a pinch of thyme and 2 bay leaves. fry until they start looking translucent then add 1 cup of sweet red wine. simmer this almost where all the liquid is evaporated. take out the bay leaves and add 2 T of flour and cook that stirring for about 3 minutes. Add turkey broth. simmer for 20 minutes. Now I don't put the bread on top with cheese but I do serve with very crunchy bread. you will be amazed.
Danny we live in Georgia and I've always used grits. Just sprinkle a nice amount and they will take it back to the nest and die. Nice done this for over 20 years. I only do natural and this is no fail. Its worked both on fire ants and regular. I used to also live in Mobile, Al. Hope you can try some good ole "dannycorn" southern grits for new use. God Bless.
Onions look great those are really nice big onions really like the row cover seems nice and thick we have ants here to I try not to let him bite me laugh out loud
We have a minor problem with fire ants. We drown them out every day for 10 days. That works for us, but we do not have more than 5-10 colonies to deal with at a time.
