How To: Grow Onions
Hello, my friend, hello again; today we come together to talk about How To: Grow Onions and hope the blog can help you.
You really need to “know your onions,” as the saying goes, to avoid planting the wrong ones for your zone at the wrong time of year.
When you’re learning how to grow onions, keep in mind that they can be started from seed, purchased seedlings, or sets (bulblets). While sets progress fastest, they unfortunately also bolt most easily and generally make smaller onions than seedlings do.
Gardeners in zones up to and including USDA Zone 6 should grow long-day types, which require 14 to 16 hours of light per day, and plant them early enough in spring so they mature during summer. Southern gardeners should opt for short-day onions, which need only 10 to 12 hours of daylight, planting them in autumn or winter so they mature before summer.
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