You don't want the part of the neck where the leaves grow away from the clear sheath to collect soil or water down between the young leaves, or they can rot. Set plants 1 inch deep, so that their roots are well covered with soil but the top of the plant's neck is not buried too deeply. For mounded rows, mix a 3-inch layer of compost or aged compost-enriched Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics® All Purpose In-Ground Soil into the top 6 inches of soil. Fill raised beds with a soil designed to be just the right weight and texture for raised beds, such as Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics® Raised Bed Mix. Raised beds or raised rows made by mounding up soil are ideal, especially if your soil is heavy clay. Growing onions requires abundant sun and good drainage, and they grow best when the soil pH ranges between 6.0 and 6.8. For great results, start with Bonnie Plants® onion slips, strong plants grown by a company that has been helping home gardeners for over a century. For the mildest onions, start with a variety known to produce sweet, mild-flavored bulbs such as Texas Sweet (at southern latitudes) or Walla Walla (at northern latitudes). Most gardeners want sweet onions, and the sweetness of an onion is determined by both nature and nurture. Onions can be eaten at nearly any size so harvest when they're the right size for your next culinary creation.For best results, keep your growing onions fed with a continuous-release plant food. Water whenever the top inch of soil becomes dry. Onions aren't great at taking up water, so it's important to keep soil moist so their shallow roots can drink up.Improve your native soil by mixing in several inches of aged compost or other rich organic matter.Grow them in a sunny spot that has fertile, well-drained soil with a pH of 6.0 to 6.8. Space onion plants 6 inches apart in rows that are 12 inches apart.In-ground gardens and raised beds are both excellent options for growing onions. Plant onions in early spring once the ground is workable.Keep them in a cool, bright place but out of direct sun until you are ready to plant. If you can't plant your onions right away, remove their bindings and place them in a bucket with 2 inches of moist soil in the bottom. Most of our onion varieties are sold as little seedlings in bare-root bundles each plant will start growing within days after you plant. Growing onions is simple: If you can poke a hole into the ground, you can grow an onion from a little plant.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |