What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're talking about one of my favorite crops in the kitchen and also a crop that I enjoy growing although I don't grow as much of it as I do other types of crops and that would be the humble onion. So if you've ever

planted onions and you ended up kind of just like with a weak harvest of small bulbs

or it didn't really work that well, it may be the case that it's your growing technique and something

you did in the growing process.

At the same time, you may have started with the wrong type of onion and you just were doomed from the start. And so that's what we're talking about today,

the three different types of onions and why you would choose one over another.

Because each of these are kind of better suited for a certain area of the country or a certain climate and locale.

So if you plant the wrong one you just might not get much of a harvest and there are relatively long season crops so you really don't want to make that mistake. Let's go ahead and get

into it. The first thing we have to talk about is how onions grow in the first place.

They will bulb up in response to the length of the day. So when the number of daylight hours reaches a certain amount,

that's what triggers onion plants to start bulbing.

So that is what the determination on the types is really circling around.

Long day onions need about 14 to 15 hours of daylight to form a bulb.

Short day onions need 10 hours,

and then there's something called the day neutral.

Those form bulbs regardless of how many daylight hours

and they will perform well pretty much

anywhere that you grow them.

So as soon as the day length will hit the 10 hour mark,

that's when a short day onion starts to form a bulb.

If you're in a situation where the top of the plant,

the vegetative growth, there isn't enough of it up top, that means

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