Vegetable & Fruit Gardening : How to Grow Onions

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Hi I'm Jarrett from Stone Soup Farm and this is how to grow onions. Onions are a cold weather

crop. They are extremely cold hearty and they can be planted well before the first frost.

If you have the ability to start them indoors in flats that is always good but you don't

actually have to. In the Spring as soon as the soil can be worked like this you can get

out there and put onion seeds in the ground. If you have a common garden seeder like this

that could be really helpful and then you can get the plate for onions and once the

Earth is nice and tilled and fluffy like this you can go over it and this will plant seeds

at a very even spacing throughout the row and if you don't have one of these then you

could use a garden spade hand held like this one to mark out the rows. You are going to

want to sprinkle seeds in there like this about one per inch on average over the course

about a half an inch deep and then when you're done cover it up again. Make sure to water

them in and keep them well watered for the duration of the season until they become nice

and big. During the middle of the Summer they will bulb out and they'll create the onion

at the bottom. They are ready to harvest when the tops start to flop over and they'll just

do that on their own. It doesn't mean it is sick or dying or anything it just means it

is ready. At that point pull the onion out, put it into a dry and preferably warm area

and the tops will shrivel up and the bulbs will become hard and with a papery skin around

the outside. At that time you can clip the top off and you've got yourself a nice storage

onion. I'm Jarrett from Stone Soup and that's how to grow onions.

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