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The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

186: Onions - What Can Go Wrong?

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

4.4734 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

I planted over 300 onions this year!  Today will will talk about what can go wrong and how to avoid these mistakes.

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How to grow onions for big bulbs

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0:00.0

Hey there, can you guess the number of onions that are currently growing in my garden right now?

0:06.7

Well, I'll take a guess with you because I lost count at about 300.

0:10.9

I think there's probably between 300 and 400 if I'm not mistaken.

0:15.6

And yes, that is a lot of onions for a family of four.

0:19.8

But onions are always a huge part of my garden plan because

0:24.0

we eat onions. Like a lot of families, we eat a lot of onions. The onions that I grow and harvest from

0:30.6

my garden, they will store for a couple of months whole, but then they also freeze well,

0:35.8

and I have learned that I really enjoyed dehydrating them.

0:39.3

If you were on my webinar last week, then you know we talked a lot about onions,

0:44.0

and then if you listened to the podcast episode last week, preserving obviously is a huge

0:48.1

part of the reason I grow my garden.

0:50.9

My goal has always been to have a year-round supply of onions, and so far I haven't quite been

0:58.7

able to make it, although last year I came the closest than I ever have before. You would think,

1:05.1

after hearing me say that I have 300 or so onions growing in my garden, that I've got this onion

1:10.3

thing figured out. But in fact,

1:12.4

it's quite the opposite. The whole reason I grow that many onions is because I can't be

1:18.3

guaranteed that I'm going to have the harvest that I want. I am still every year on a quest to find

1:24.9

that perfect key that unlocks the perfect onion harvest.

1:29.4

I've got a lot of crops dialed in pretty well.

1:32.4

Tomatoes, peppers, okra, the list could go on.

1:36.0

But I'm being quite honest with you and that onions are ones that I'm still trying to figure out.

1:42.4

Maybe that's why I thought onions would be the perfect next installment in our What

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