Hey everybody, I am really trying to grow bigger onions this year. But now I'm fighting some cold weather, so I figured I'd see if what I read was correct. I'll make a follow-up video and let everyone know how it comes out. Thanks for watching.
Maybe I would have tried just a few plants exposed rather than the whole bed, unless you still have time to replant some more.....just my thoughts.... Grizzly .
i put my potato onions out in the begining of februar, safe to say they havent done mutch, but they havent gone soft either,mulched them with some leaves and sea weed,2-3inch. planted one type in december i belive, not sure, they were sending out sprouts, so i plantet 3 in a gallon pot and put them into the sout facing wal on my house, they have done well and have nice sprouts now, egyptian.walking onion,welsh onion and ooerprei looks like they dont mind frost at all,and have ben growing tru the winter.my garlic starts to kick of now also,looks like stuff picked up some after 20 mars:)i have heard that cepas kan thake down to 6-celsius but not for a long time,i guess cultivar, also play a role. anyway im at 60 degres north, at a iland group, caled austevoll, close to bergen\west coast norway, seems like the only place in the world not heating up for the moment! i would love a couple more degres, ewery day, tru the year up here:) the nigths didnt reach 10 celsus before june here last year,and we had a average of 14 celsius tru summer, i envy you guys that acidental grows nice winter squash in your compost pile:)
I could not imagine trying to garden in that cold of weather. If anything, my problem is that it gets hot too quickly for peas and lettuce. I'm curious, can you grow things like tomatoes or sweet corn outside. I would think it would be almost impossible. Thanks for the comment. And good luck.
@@jonbussey5353 have tried a couple of sesons with tomatos and corn, no great sucsess, with a green house, tomatos is posible, and i think if i figure out a way to cover\shelter the corn from the north wind i think it will be posible, orderd some seeds from baker creek last year, so i have fishers earliest and a burro mountain to try out, but i dont know if i have place left this year for corn or squash:) 1\3 of the garden is full of garlic, have a pea and bean prosjekt i want to run, and i need some place left for my potatos to:) its fun to play around, but the stuff i know grows well fils the pantry, squash and corn take fair bit of area, and if it dosent grow to anything, its not so fun in the end, but im not giving up, have even started 4 cultivars of chillies this spring! but im not expexting great things there either, but hopfully i get some i can save seeds from, and maybe those seeds will do better in 2025:) the last 2 years i have been growing burley and virgina in my back yard, started the seeds in mars and planted out in june, fist year was bad, last year i got a harvest and a lot of seeds, so stuff are posible:) timing the planting and feeding the diferent stuff, is always a learning curve with new types and cultivars, but failing one seson, makes me read up and try a littel harder next seson,and it seems to work:)
Bill, that's good information. I'm fairly confident these will be okay, I guess we'll find out pretty soon. I'm just not used to planting something this early in the year. Thanks for sharing.
Honestly, I had every intention of covering them up after I saw the forecast. When I decided to leave them uncovered, I didn't think about trying it with just a few. I think I still have time to replant. But if I had done what you said, it could have actually been a better experiment. I'll keep this in mind if I try something like this again. Thanks for the comment.
I usually put mine out early and they do fine. I tried to push the limits this year with some of them and now I know…. 20s…. Are too low 🤣 but mine do fine with temps in the 30s, a light frost is ok
