On the topic of mulching onions... My approach the past 2 years has been to plant cover crops where I intend to plant onions and garlic, terminate the cover crops and cover with a silage tarp, remove tarp and plant onions/garlic into mulch that was created by the cover crop mix. Keeps the soil covered and is completely seed free. I've been using the warm season soil builder from green cover, and it makes a really nice mulch material.
Your advice gave me huge onions last year, I'm zone 5b well 6a for new zoning in nebr. I just started all my onions seeds to put in the ground in late March. Good luck with this crazy weather.
I loved that…….”show me someone who trims their onions and I’ll show you bigger onions”😂! Always stop putting the juice to your hard neck garlic once it scapes. I always use a balanced fertilizer first and then add nitrogen as needed, I like to use urea diluted down to about the same level as miracle grow for any nitrogen additions (spoon feeding). Urea dissolves really well in water and is used in commercial agriculture by people with central spigots! I think this is my favourite gardening channel now! Klaus
I'm glad I saw this...I had mulched my onions to help protect them from this upcoming frost and I just side dressed them with Ammonium Sulfate on them for an initial boost (and the sulfur) and was looking for a good organic fertilizer to follow them up with for the longer term. I was thinking of Chilean Nitrate because I already have it but I guess I'll take that straw off and go get some blood meal too. 👍
January 13!! Guess you know about the Arctic front coming!! Around 5 degrees coming to East Tennessee. If I cover my short day onions will they have a chance??? This will be several days! They will get very little light for these days! I guess it’s temps first and light second!!
I sure do agree with the weeds and synthetic argument. I use Peters 20-20-20 and although I don’t get alot of weed the quack grass is an enormous pain in the butt.
Travis I haven't watched your videos for a while and I was really surprised to see your single row of onions. I'm used to seeing double rows from you. I learned double row planting from you years ago on your dad's website and that's the only way I plant beets onions things like that even my carrots it's such an energy saver.
One thing to consider is that mulch helps keep soil cooler. So if it is a warmer drier spring, mulch may be useful. I have mulch on my onions, some look okay and some look great. I think the mulch helped with the hot fall we had. Truth is that I am learner to grow onions from you. I did buy my seeds from you. thanks again.
Well, I absolutely learned that I have to improve drainage. My onions were planted right around the same time as yours, and I'm north of Milledgeville. Mine are looking a little puny compared to yours, and I'd bet it's the soil moisture. We've had some decent rain over the past few weeks. Thanks, Travis!
Just found you on RU-vid, love your channel! I am starting my garden venture back up. I am in Effingham County ,btw. Subscribed!! I like that chicken coop!
I just watch video early they said to cut the onions half way through. I never grown onions, but just planted some in garden few days ago to give them a try. Glad ran across your video.
You can plant the roots from green onions in your garden and they will reproduce. I do this all the time. Saves time and money. Buy a good 4 to 5 bunches and plant those roots.
Hey, you are the Onion guy. I love growing onions. Hey I can buy nice beautiful onions in the store year round, but they are just fun and rewarding to grow. Outside of some little weeding they are maintenance free and easy to grow. We had a wet year last year. I picked mine at the right time. Except I noticed they were juicy. And I used mine as I needed them. Do I really need to cure mine more? You ever get juicy ones? I used 5-1-1 fish fertilizer. And triple shredded wood chips as mulch/weed control.
Came back to say, my elephant garlic has started to show really yellow leaves this winter and seems quite unhappy right now kind of hoping it pulls through the rest of dormancy and takes off.
I didn't cover mine during the Christmas freeze of 2022 it got 17 here Thomasville GA, I not going to cover mine this coming week hence it will be 20 degrees next Saturday.
@hardstylzz5024 Thank you this is my first year growing onions and they look really nice so I didn't know. I haven't covered them so far this year and we've had a couple of freezes but no long stretches of cold. I appreciate the advice
We had 6 inches of rain in that last front that came through. I actually had to poke some holes in one of my raised beds because it had water sitting in it. Is that cold front that's getting down to 17 one night and below freezing for 5 days straight going to kill onions the size of yours? I'm asking because mine are the same size as yours. I'm going to put frost covers over mine for the 17% night especially and might keep them on for the 25% nights.
I have about the same weather forecast as you. I think I will cover for 17deg. my onions and kale. I don't think it will kill them, but might get some burning on leaves.
East of Atlanta is forecast to be 14 degrees on 1/16. Healthy and well established onion plants are supposed to be hardy down to 18-20 degrees. I plant in double rows, so it's easy to cover with a polyethlene tent.
Hey Travis, when you set up your irrigation, why did you decide to use drip instead of 1/4” soaker hose? The soaker hose can still go sub-surface and you could get more water out to the plants quicker it seems.
Im a first time grower of onions(this spring). Im in zone 5b Illinois. This is the first video of yours ive watched. Ive ordered onion seedlings already. My question is when do i fertilize my onions? At the time of planting? Do i add it to my bed & mix it, or do i side dress as you demonstrated in this video? Also, i use blood meal & not bone meal? Also, the same for garlic? I apologize for so many questions, but like i said this is my first time & im a little anzious about the whole onion growing business. Thanks in advance for any & all informantion you may provide.
Use a balanced fertilizer at planting. We put it in the planting furrow. Then once they start growing good, that's when you'll want to side-dress with a high nitrogen fertilizer like blood meal.
Talking about feather meal, I try to use all the parts of my broiler chickens when we slaughter them, and all of the feathers go straight into the compost, and they compost down amazingly fast, entrals and heads go in the black soldier, fly larva bin, and we eat literally everything else, including the feet. if you're gonna raise chickens, do try the freedom ranger broilers you will get a 6 pound tender butchered chicken at 10 weeks old and they actually are healthy up until butchering not like the Cornish crosses which are very sad to grow
I was going to ask if you ever had onions rot when seedlings. Then you said you did when you put hay mulching around them. Last year I had it happen for the first time had to replace several and they sat doing nothing for a long time. They rotted in ground as well as in my raised beds. I can only figure it was because it was still pretty warm in November last year which encouraged rot. I've never had to worry about being too wet only too dry. My onions didn't get near as big either. I did bury rows of chicken manure over here called coop poop under where i planted the onions and wonder if it was too much.
Last year, over the course of two days all of my onion and garlic leaves fell over. Turns out it was two huge box turtles doing what they do in the spring. LOL
Thank you for all of this great onion information! Have you used fish emulsion as a nitrogen fertilizer, to water with? Thank you again for guidance - take care with this winter weather!
Watched a Yara Liva video and it showed the onion nitrogen uptake curve to be 60%-80% during bulbing. Everybody says to stop fertilizing once bulbing starts, but that seems to go against the “curve”.
Travis, when should I start onion seeds in order to plant for my Spring garden? Forgot to say I'm in zone 9 according to the new zoning map. South Mississippi.
Hi Travis, my newly planted onion starts took a pretty good hit from some recent hail and storms. The greens have a lot of damage. Do you think they can recover?
I’d like to know what’s eating the tops of my yellow onions? I’m in California East Bay. I have them in grow bags. Only planted about 10. So far it ate about 2 inches. What could it be? First time planting onions too 😢 I’d also like to add that they’re covered with mesh cloth.
Travis, I live and grow in Arkansas. I am trying to over winter onions and garlic for the first time this year. The have been in the ground a couple of months and look ok. Should I cover them up with some kind of mulch or frost protection through the coldest parts. We will get ice and some snow.
Ok this years freezeagemon i picked all i could..am letting all but my onions and.garlic die...bye bye peas..all brassicas..lettuce...heck i still have basil out there i need to pick...and tons of peppers...oh well Im sure the dill is a gonner too...aint no way im doing heroics except for my onions... Now ill just dreamnof spring and after this freeze start my tomatoes...and peppers..and perhaps another round of peas. When i went to get milk and eggs i went to walmart and thwir christmas was 90 petcent off...so i bought a bunch and did notice they had all the 2024.seeds on display...should be able to get some peas..
Will the cold and frost damage garlic bulb if the leaves are damaged? This year I mixed blood meal in the soil and the garlic is growing like crazy. I have a mountain of mulch and covered them with landscape cloth, but it's growing out of the cloth. I live in N,C. Zone 7b. If I'm doing wrong please tell me.
Imagine a cow standing in a field that can talk. She says, “I have heard some people complain about us cows farting as we eat vegetation..that’s just like just like the Vegans!”Lol For fertilizer, rabbit manure won’t burn. Apply directly.
@@LazyDogFarm I have a 12 x12 foot plot for sweet corn that I have planted in double rows.I did FAD system.But I realized my baby corns were not going to be close to my 8-5-5 for awhile.I thought if I put 855 in same furrow I planted my corn might benefit quicker, since it would be directly above it..FICAP. Furrow,Irrigation,Cover,Amend,plant, for all double rows. It is raining hereI don't have a lot to do !!
hold up you said do not cut your onion tops but then you said show me some one who is cutting their onion tops and ill show you a bigger onion, i do not understand, isnt a bigger onion better? so we should cut the onion tops to get a bigger onion or what am i not understanding because you said not to cut them? thanks in advance for your answer brother love your gardening style!
My onions are happy, but my garlic has gotten rust from weeks of on and off rain where it literally rains for 3 days then its like 65 degrees and fungus is going nuts, I sprayed it with copper fungicide it started to spread and ive hit it with actinovate a biological fungicide that is capable of killing rust.
the other thing that has always blown my mind is you side dress, instead of top dress. Then I've seen you discuss the efficiency of the siding over top dressing. Why don't you just top dress less and get the same or more nutrients to the plant? It's just crazy A$$ things you do that make no sense.
Probably has a lot to do with my previous experience using synthetic fertilizers. I'm always scared to get it on the leaves, even though I'm not using synthetics anymore.
Yeah your dog will eat blood meal bone meal and feather meal. The get protein from those. Your dog might need some raw eggs, give your dog what it needs and shelve you MEALS where your dog has no access.
