Do you plant broccoli and cabbage in the spring, or only in the fall? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 0:45 Checking the Frost Damage in Our Raised Beds 2:17 The Secrets to Growing Big Onions 7:39 Installing Drip Tape for Planting 9:17 Cabbage and Broccoli Transplants 9:49 Planting Cabbage and Broccoli in the Spring
If you are in Nebraska I have had great success with planting onions the week of April 17th. Heavy fertilizer and lots of water like you said when they are bulbing = huge onions! Happy Gardening!
Thank you for the timely reminder to watch your top tips for growing onions as I’m about ready to start planting mine down here in the Southern Hemisphere 🧅🧅🧅
We're a bit north of y'all in Va, We're just now getting our spring stuff in. We tried onion seed , starting in January inside, not sure they'll make it, but bunching onions look alright and we bought some sets to put in as well. Just planted onions this past weekend. Broccoli we'll get in ground this week and get carrots in . Our warm weather stuff like pepper's, tomatoes and melons won't go in til mother's day. I appreciate all the tips on onions cause normally we just plant green onions, so I'm listening to all your advice on bulbing onions
North Florida here, we are growing onions, potatoes, broccoli, and peas right now. I have okra, malabar spinach, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, starting in seed trays right now.
I'm right there with you, Travis. I planted out broccoli, cabbage and kale. They might make - They might not. Either way, I'll have some greens to feed my chickens!
I've never had any luck growing brassicas in the spring. Lettuce either. My lettuce is already bolting. Broccoli would bolt before you could even tell it was broccoli I've been in the south over 20 years and I still can't get used to having salad in the winter instead of the summer lol. Wish there was a variety of lettuce I could grow in zone 8b during the summer
My red onions are the only ones bulbing right now, I planted all my onions the same day, so I should start seeing something with the yellow and white ones soon.
Impressive onions. I guess I need to fertilize more. Mine are starting to bulb, but they are nowhere near as big as yours. I planted mine 11/15. They got hailed on too. I'm just hoping they don't bolt like they did last year.
I had the same problem w tiny garlic huge onions here in 7b. This makes me feel a little better since youre my yoda travis...... I did seed and bulb on both onion and garlic and im sold on seedlings.
My garlic isn't doing too well this year too. That late December blast really knocked them back because it went from 70 to 5 degrees in 24 hours here. They didn't like that and never fully recovered. Only now are they starting to look a little better with me over ferting them --- but I know that I am not going to get bulb size I normally get.
Might try Tropic Giant Cabbage to see how it grows in South GA during spring and summer. I did start my dutch type cabbage from MI Gardener in Dec and Jan forming heads now.
Travis I live in kern county, California you never get to crops of cabbage, broccoli, or cauliflower here heat comes on too quick, or any other cool season crop
Hey Travis. I just put out a video today with my overachiever onion. It was 1.62 lbs! It was most likely a 1015Y (or Plethera). I am growing Chianti also based on your recommendation. Mine look just like yours. Huge but bulbing is slower than the yellows. Anyhow, love watching your recommendations for veggies.
I feel your pain on late brassicas too! Just got mine in last weekend. 21 degrees the week before spooked me. I completely lost my garlic this year, for the first time ever, due to the artic blast. Those onions are looking great!! Looking forward to seeing that harvest. Mine will be average I guess.
My onions are doing O.K. here in Gainesville, FL, but, like you, my garlic are smaller than usual and bulbing too soon. We had an unusually warm winter except for the Christmas arctic blast. I was once told that garlic starts bulbing in the spring when the soil warms up, and I think the soil warmed earlier than usual this year.
I love onions, I used to eat them like apples when I was a kid.. I've never had much luck growing onions though.. They grow and bulb up ok but they are always way to strong.. Even the sweet onions I've tried growing over the years turn out strong.. I guess there's just something in my soil that brings out that strong onion flavor..
Started a strawberry patch & stuck in some more onion starts man I wish I could grow onions like that! Maybe this year I following your advice so fingers crossed, love the channel 🙌
You have some nice onions in that 1 st batch. Hopefully, your brassicas do just as well. My onions will go in this weekend and brassicas in mid April. The Imperial broccoli has done really well and I have had near perfect germination rate with it. Even with 1 year old seed.
No more cool season crops for us in the southwest desert. Just planted cantaloupe, sunflowers, basil and zucchini. On to spring and summer. We have had a very cool spring here in the desert and my peppers 🌶 are really slow taking off. Fingers crossed 🤞 for my 11 peppers.
lol, you guys are picking onions before we get em planted here in Nebraska. still snowing here but have got half in the ground now, the rest will be after the newest snow melts.
9a here, had a successful harvest of onions by planting sets first week of January. First time planting onions on 6 mil black plastic. Had a consistent baseball size yellow onions…never fertilized and only watered 3 times. Only 3 out of 500 bolted. We’ve grown larger but they required daily watering and a great deal of fertilizer. I’ll be trying out some of the varieties your growing…just need to get my onion seed starting game on.
I planted out some DP Sweets seedlings around November 1st, then another round of the old Granex onions around December 1st. Both are doing about the same today. None are as big as yours though. Probably need to water a lot more.
I’m just getting started on the VA/NC line because our last freeze date is March 15 and the last frost date is May 5. I got some potatoes in the ground yesterday and Monday I will be putting in onions, broccoli, cabbage, peas, tomatoes, peppers, and some lettuce varieties. I am going to succession plant everything and see how it goes. I don’t have a lot of experience with it but I have been improving my clay soil for years and I have had some success with some things in the past. I’m hoping that this will be a good year but the weather is so crazy and I don’t have a good water source. My well runs out in about 30 minutes or less and takes a couple hours to recover and that makes it tough. I have to figure something out but I live on a very limited budget so it makes it tough as well. 🤷🏽♂️
I'm struggling with onions this year. The original onions that I planted in October got obliterated by the Artic Blast. I only have about 10 plants of the originals remaining. I started more seeds in December and planted 140 starts at the end of January. Then we got into a rainy pattern. About 40 of my little plants turned to mush. There is a size difference in the originals and the second planting. I am hoping for big onions, but time will tell.
Your onions look so good Travis! My onions are taking a while too. I was suppose to plant peppers after them but my peppers have outgrown their trays so they've been uppotted to 1-2 gallon pots. I've got a couple questions that I hope you can help with. Every now and then I get some onions that seem to split in two, like htey're growning two seperate heads. Is this a variety thing or is there something I can do to prevent that from happening? My other question is when you get a tomato plant that ends up with multiple main stems, do you cull one of the stems? (indeterminate)
I always get a few onions that do that too. They don't seem to store as well, so I always try to eat those first. I do try to single stem my indeterminate tomato plants because it makes them much easier to trellis.
I plant both spring and fall. Thank you for the content. I just moved to zone 8a 2 years ago and I had no knowledge on how to grow here. But watching you has given me confidence on how to be successful because you are. Thanks a lot Travis. Do you have any content or suggestions for mustard greens and field corn?
Our favorite mustard greens are a variety called "Savanna." We haven't grown much field corn over the years, but this year we'll be growing a blue variety called McCormacks. Should be fun!
We're midway between lowcountry and Midlands of SC. Trying for a round of brassicas this spring. Got the transplants in about 2 weeks ago. That last frost got my taters Just put some more in to see if we can get some before it gets hot. 🤞... then we had 3 days of pouring rain. 😑 Might be a dud on taters this spring.
LMAO I'm in Nebraska, and we are just NOW getting to the point where *maybe* we can put onion sets or starts in the ground. Ours won't be ready until mid-summer. Winter onions here aren't a thing when we get -20F and 50 MPH winds.
Travis. Could you plant the watermelons in between the onions then harvest the onions as they are ready or do you still have time to just wait till the onions are gone.
I might could do that once the onions start showing some signs that they're getting close. But I wouldn't want to do it too soon -- otherwise the watermelon plants will be all amongst the onion rows.
I've been wondering if you ever did anything with Cajun Bs multiplying onions in the fire ring? Maybe in the future you'll have some root stock available on the site. Curious how they compare to my Texas heirloom nesting onions
Yeah I need to give a video update on those. They did okay, but I didn't give them near as much attention as I should have. I think they're probably very similar to yours if not the same thing.
Our Onions got planted last spring about the same time I planted our Watermelons. In fact, in the same raised bed and the watermelons did amazing. Even the onions seemed happy, but they never bulbed up, so i over wintered them and they are just now starting to look like they are going to make. Getting thick around the base and putting on more leaves but they still haven't started to bulb. Starting to wonder if they were the right variety for the south. My wife ordered them, but shes not sure now what she bought. Is it short day or long day that we in the south can grow? I'll have to research it more and make a purchase soon myself so I know what we have going in the ground.
Definitely need short-day onions for the south. Depending on how far south you are, you might not have long enough days for the long-day onions to ever bulb.
Good morning Travis, I'm in Gwinnett in Zone 7b, but really close to zone 7a. I planted my onions on Jan. 28th. They started bulbing on April 30th (13 1/2 hrs day length). My question is, how long is the bulbing process? Thanks
My onions got blown over in a storm, the stems were not broken, they are just all leaning over. However they are starting to bulb, do you think they will be ok and continue to grow?
We didn't have a hard winter here in zone 5a but the dang squirrels ate my winter garlic down to about 6 plants. I'll be replanting garlic this week. Never know what a year will bring. Thanks for the video 😊
I'm in 5a in the Great Plains and we're having a winter that won't end. 4 inches of wet snow yesterday and a high of 34F today. Last year, I was running the harrow through the garden beds two weeks before now.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I ordered the Chianti onion seeds, started them indoors and planted outside when they were about 6" high. However, some have gotten a little bigger but I have nothing like the huge bulbs you have! I don't really have bulbs! Did I not fertilize enough or what? I've planted onions in late Oct/early Nov. in North Georgia but I still struggle to grow bulbs like yours and I've tried several variety of seeds and sets.
To the best of my knowledge, there's not a variety of onions called "strawberry onions." In Florida, they grow onions amongst strawberries and that's where they get their name. They're growing short-day varieties similar to the ones we grow.
I live in the Nortwest Florida zone 8b. I have just put out another round of broccoli and cabbage. Already seeing pest issues, what pest control would you recommend?
It's just fun to see how big they'll get. Big is a relative term though. Some gardeners struggle just getting onions that are baseball size. Others want softball-sized onions. So hopefully our tips will help either of those groups grow bigger onions.
Those short day onions sure have some robust foliage. LOL My intermediate day onions are just starting to take off. I have a short window for rapid foliage growth before bulb enlargement begins. I side dressed and laid them by a few days ago.
