How to Grow Onions in Containers & Raised Beds

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8 ай бұрын

Who plants onions in Fall and who plants onions in Spring? Well, it depends on where you live. What kind of onions do you plant? Well, it depends on where you live. Can you grow onions in containers?? YES!!
I'll break down how to grow onions to a simple formula in this video. Plus because onions take a while to produce, and in the meantime take up valuable garden real estate, you can interplant to save space in a small space garden.
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00:21 - Last year's huge onion harvest
00:35 - Past failures
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02:45 - Onions from seed, onions from transplants or onion sets?
03:13 - How to grow onions from seed
03:58 - How to grow onoions from transplants
04:28 - Onion growing requirements
05:07 - How to plant onions in containers
06:00 - How to plant onions in raised beds
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@MichaelRei99 8 ай бұрын

I can only imagine the size of the burger you’d need to put a slice of that onion!!

@gwendolynwebster7722 8 ай бұрын

😂

@aileensmith3062 8 ай бұрын

We have always purchased onion transplants form out local seed store. We have also had pretty good results. This year we are going to try and start our onions from seed in the house. So wish us luck!

@fatherdowling1 3 ай бұрын

Last year, I grew onions for the first time, and I used sets, and they grew beautifully. A few started bolting, but most didn't. They averaged the size of a large baseball.

@lettyschlieper7410 8 ай бұрын

Lovely onions. Just an FYI, you decide to plant clover, remember, that deer love clover and will travel a long way to get clover. Hunters use clover, soy beans, and, corn fields to attract deer. So, if you have deer living close by, be aware of them coming into your garden. Also, deer can jump pretty high fences.

@Mrs.Patriot 8 ай бұрын

The problem with sets is they are 2nd year, and all they will do is go to seed. I used to buy sets and could never get bulbs; just split underground, and send up flowers. Don't waste your time or energy or money. Seeds are much cheaper anyway, but keep in mind onion, garlic, and chive seeds are only viable for one year. I'm watching this video again!!

@johnlord8337 8 ай бұрын

All alliums (the onion family of 600-920 species)- onions, egyptian (walking) onions, green onions, garlic, shallots, scallions, leeks, chives ... wild ramps (onions), wild ransoms (garlic) ... flower lilies (day lilies, tiger lilies et al) ... (yawn). All have the same categorical needs for sunlight, grow zone, and growth requirements. Ever wonder why you can't grow onions and flower lilies in your zone - wrong species for your grow zone ! Something that the seed companies or retailers have in common - they don't know, or they won't tell you. Same as mis-selling yams as sweet potatoes. Main bulb onion categories : red (purple), yellow, white, and sweet. Some are mentioned as Spanish red, yellow, and whites. Smaller pearl onions, spring onions, and cocktail onions are just harvested young white onions. Short day (southern grow Zones 7 - 11, latitude 25 - 35 degrees North). Plant in Fall, grow through Winter, harvest in late Spring. Intermediate (day neutral) (grow Zones 4 - 9, latitude 32 - 42 degrees North). Grow in any moderate temperature zone, sunlight hours not a factor). Plant in early Spring in northern colder regions. Plant in Fall in southern warmer regions. Long day (northern grow Zones 3 - 5, latitude 37 - 47 degrees North). Plant in (post-frost) early Spring as soon as the ground is workable. Harvest in mid- to late- summer. Bulbing is triggered after the summer equinox (June 21) in most northern regions. Search out the many onion (et al) grower-supplier websites for all of the many different varieties that can grow in your area. 100s to know and understand.

@hoosierpioneer 8 ай бұрын

Never got anything out of sets. In a long day area. Sets are hugh sellers here, I think eternal optimists buy them.

@nicoler3269 8 ай бұрын

October to July !! I have garden commitment issues to let something grow that long before harvesting LoL 🤣🤣 so I plant bunching onions & I even get those from my local nursery as starts! … but your last onion harvest was beautiful !! 👩🏻‍🌾💚

@michellewelch6013 8 ай бұрын

Sets are great for feeding the neighborhood pests. Never seen one grow to harvest. Ive finally bought short season seeds and im going to get them started this week. Also i have a constant supply of green onions from the Egyptian Walking onions my sis in law shared with me 15 years ago. Love them! Thanks for the timely post!

@jaylewis8789 8 ай бұрын

I forgot about walking onions. I need to get some.

@johnburk9157 7 ай бұрын

I planted yellow onions from sets. What caused about half of them to divide into 2 halves?

@elsafischer3247 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for how you explain about the onions

@santaanaroadwildman3614 8 ай бұрын

Great funion vid! SO easy to plug & tuck the seedlings in anywhere. I'm in the Monterey Bay area so I need intermediate day

@yokennedy3610 5 ай бұрын

Just bought some bulb sets....thinking twice about planting them now. I have seeds also, so will try those too and experiment with both. Thanks for the information, very helpful!

@kathygedamke2167 8 ай бұрын

Last year I put a bunch of yellow onions in an old recycling bin. They did fantastic! Not quite as big as yours, but pretty decent size for my first attempt.

@user-xj6hx3ku6e 8 ай бұрын

Wow, by the sounds of it, I think I have been lucky. I have always used sets and had great success. As long as I manage the weeds. I used seeds for green or salad onions.

@marthakratz7877 8 ай бұрын

I grew a long day onion variety called Ailsa Craig by seed (zone 5b) and I was real pleased with the results this year until I saw your massive onions. Now I have to go back and listen to the rest of this video. 🤗

@DebRoo11 5 ай бұрын

I sewed my onion seeds almost 3 weeks ago including that variety you mentioned. All of my seeds came up except for that variety not even one germinated 😢

@stephendaurie9344 8 ай бұрын

used to have great harvest with sets until a few years ago. I believe they changed the variety or something. now they either rot in the ground or don't size up, tried seed this year and got sets. been having no luck with onions lately

@helenmcclellan452 8 ай бұрын

I grow sets in the winter, but they don't grow into large bulbs. However, I grow them and dehydrate the leaves & medium bulbs and blend for powder.

@desertedenblooms 8 ай бұрын

TRIPPLE MATINEE! oh im soooooooooooooooooo spoiled! tank you!

@NMWriterofWords 8 ай бұрын

I use seeds, I refuse to buy and onion to plant an onion. I might as well go to the store and buy onions. Sets have never worked well for me either. I'm in Southern NM on the border with Mexico. We have a pretty long growing season but with temps in the triple digits for over 45 days of that season. Our winters aren't as bad as the North of course but we do freeze regularly and get down in to the twenties and teens at times.

@aileensmith3062 8 ай бұрын

We are in Southern New Mexico as well. So who knows as to how far we are from each other? As mentioned the transplants have worked good for us for many years. This year we are going to start from seed in the house and to be transplanted in mid February or early March. Do you know of any semo local KZfaqrs from our area on here? We follow a few of these people. Then all of them are in a far different climate than we are, Thank You!

@vonheise 8 ай бұрын

I once grew onions successfully in my younger days, but since I went to raised beds, and containers, I have had little success in my tomato containers or alone. We live in Tennessee now.

@user-ex2fq4or7i 8 ай бұрын

I have only tried to plant onions one season, I'm a new gardener. I used sets and it was a complete failure😢. I will get some intermediate sun onion seeds this year. Thanks for the education!

@craighalle7892 8 ай бұрын

I found out that I could grow seeds on the plants during the second year of growing them in the garden. They flower, make seeds and are still edible. I also planted shoots from store bought onions but never got huge onions. Harvested from a different zone, right? This year my seeds did not sprout well and last long enough to plant. Maybe I didn't water them enough? I will still try again to grow them even though now due to a hospital stay last year they don't sit well with me, but I like to grow them. I guess in Northern Illinois, I need short term onions, but I have never seen that on the seed pack. Thanks, Brian. Another great informative video. May the Lord keep blessing you and yours.

@jo-annjewett198 8 ай бұрын

This year I started onions, leeks and scallions all from seed. Short day. Germination was good but despite the special self watering seed starting trays a lot died out. I have started more seeds but also ordered a bunch of short day sets just to be safe. Also started Louisiana shallots and Egyptian walking onions. They are doing so so.

@lindysmallwood2039 4 ай бұрын

Failed in the past and starting again ❤️🌺

@carriebeard9926 8 ай бұрын

Those would make some great onion rings!

@91210paige 3 ай бұрын

Just planted Sets since were having such a mild winter in the NE. I have some seeds starting under the grow lights. Hopefully they will make it to live outside and show me what's better Sets or seeds.

@joycebovee5818 8 ай бұрын

I grew onions last year, and I really didn’t get a good harvest out of them. They were small, probably about 2 inches around. I think that’s because I broadcast them and they were growing on top of each other so I tried to separate them out a little bit. This year I’m planting one or two seeds in the different areas around my garden, particularly around the brassicas.

@monicamacauley3750 8 ай бұрын

I just planted short day Madalyn onions. So cal 9b. Hoping for the best. My sets were a disaster last year.

@marvinmulford2536 8 ай бұрын

I planted onion sets four times last year. We had crows that pulled them up with their beak. I covered them with a wire frame until they got started.

@pjsviking 8 ай бұрын

Your failures becomes our successes - thank you!! This video explained my years of onion failure - excited about next spring (Zone 5a) In answer to your question, until next spring :O), I have used the sets :O(

@sjohnson1876 4 ай бұрын

I have just started growing onions. I had more green than onion bulb this last year. I have trouble “curing them”. Also spacing was a little problem.

@91210paige 3 ай бұрын

Sets are hit or miss for me. I think it's more of the fertilizing I did. I've never seen an onion almost 4 lbs OMG. I would be happy with hardball size.

@monicamayer977 8 ай бұрын

Crazy! My daughter gets really nice onions. She grows from sets By the way, watch The Dimming!

@michellewelch6013 8 ай бұрын

What is The Dimming?

@kerrycoyle8930 8 ай бұрын

I've never had much luck with onions either... I always have a lot of green onions to enjoy with meals but not any for slicing :-( Based on my growing zone I need Intermediate type onions but I've had difficulty finding many of those varieties.

@janetcahill4645 8 ай бұрын

I’m interested in how you freeze dry your produce. The price of home units are high, so I appreciate your reviews/comments. I’m also interested in storage and rehydrate uses.

@anetteridleyrodriguez 8 ай бұрын

The first time I tried growing onions, 2 years ago, I interplanted it with lettuce. Unfortunately, I densely planted the lettuce, which towered the onions and blocked the light. No success there. Last year, I did everything right, I fertilized and directly sowed neat rows. A couple of days later, my dog had jumped the fence blocking my bed and dug everything up, trying to eat the granular fertilizer I had placed in the bed. This year, I'll be adding a higher fence around my U shaped bed to keep my dog out. I want huge onions like the ones you harvested! 🤞

@robinblount9300 8 ай бұрын

I have an 8x8 ft square space of garden I had sweet potatoes in and harvested. Im in SC. Plan to grow cabbage, lettuce, onions and kale in there. I usually use rain bird copper drip irrigation but looks like you can do closer plantings with the black strip irrigation tape in your video. What product is that strip of irrigation? Will it connect to my black rain bird conduit tubing?

@annsfrench 7 ай бұрын

I’m trying shallots this year. It seems like getting the seedlings to get large enough to transplant out it the hardest part, whether I plant seed or six-packs from the nursery. 😢

@gardenimperfectplants 8 ай бұрын

Hi, in one video you were talking about the gophers. How would you protects the pumpkin seeds/ plants from gophers, If I wanted to start them from seeds in the ground?

@MagicHeide 8 ай бұрын

Minimal sulpher yields sweeter onions, too.

@elizabethhostetter1946 8 ай бұрын

do you know if intermittently harvesting the tops of bulbing onions affects the bulbing? i love onion in all forms . . .

@JenniMBE 8 ай бұрын

I grow long day onions from sets as I'm in the UK. Sets work really well for me. I have tried growing from seed but the season wasn't long enough. I lost this year's crop to onion leaf miner which was very annoying. Leaf miner only arrived in the UK 15 years ago but it seems to be everywhere now. I don't know how to get rid of them.

@helenmcclellan452 8 ай бұрын

How often do you water weekly, and do you fertilize monthly?

@GardenIdeas01 8 ай бұрын

This year i try to Grow Onions again because last was fail seed germination .

@verawallace9055 8 ай бұрын

I tried winter sow and got a lot of seedlings, the onions were medium the soil wasn't the best

@juneramirez8580 4 ай бұрын

I keep buying onions and forgetting to eat them. Next think I know they are sprouting so they get planted. I have no idea if they are long or short season. The red ones seem to do well. First time trying yellow onions.

@janeprescott980 3 ай бұрын

I planted sprouting onion from market. plant looked like an alien. Two branches with bulbous growths on each side. Haha then frenamy came And took it away.

@DatKrazyKook 8 ай бұрын

Unrelated question, what are those plants behind you in front of the canna lilies.

@verawallace9055 8 ай бұрын

Impatiens

@patkrueger7353 8 ай бұрын

I tried direct sowing seeds in my raised bed last year. Didnt work. I will try growing seeds in the trays first this time. I am in pa zone 6 so i will have to wait. Hope it works. Has anybody tried walking onions? Was just wondering what they were like.

@cameronjohn7472 8 ай бұрын

Hey this is Cam from Idaho what is a good thing to use on aphids and spider mites at least that's what I think it is

@NextLevelGardening 8 ай бұрын

Neem oil

@cameronjohn7472 8 ай бұрын

How long does it take to do its thing I brought my Reaper plants in for the winter to try to keep them going and read that they won't produce anymore peppers but boy howdy on the heat mat and under grow lights they are doing great

@lynnmoore7438 8 ай бұрын

I have only grown green onion.

@marionwinter7777 8 ай бұрын

I try from seeds but they are not very big, I'm in Zone 8a and had the short day seeds

@craigcook7589 8 ай бұрын

hi my onions don't go further than seedling stage

@charlenequinilty7252 8 ай бұрын

Sets don’t work for me. Have used transplants and have started using seeds also.

@maryzwierecki5646 8 ай бұрын

I thought Texas Grano was long day??

@jenniferallred9367 8 ай бұрын

No it is a short day onion

@maryzwierecki5646 8 ай бұрын

@@jenniferallred9367 I swear I looked this up. They sell these seeds in our Home Depot. Ok no more texas grano. They were small. I could use them still. I thought it was because I planted alot close together.

@LoveMoreJudgeLess 8 ай бұрын

Anyone else notice the text on his shirt seems like they keep moving around and are “ lifted” off the shirt itself? Might be my laser projector needing to be adjusted.

@abesterbean9024 8 ай бұрын

HOW ARE THE PUMPKINS??

@karend8575 2 ай бұрын

I am kind of angry with Home Depot. I didn’t know about the long day, short day onions. Why would they sell long day onions in So Cal? I planted these last Oct. First time I have attempted onions. So…I now have giant green onions that are bigger than the largest leek you have ever seen…with no bulb. 😳😩😡 My question is… I can still eat these right? I can chop them up and freeze them, or cut them and put them on tacos and in soups? Next year…ordering slips from a reputable seed company. Suggestions appreciated.

@NextLevelGardening 2 ай бұрын

You can eat them. Unfortunately it's not just home depot