This year as I am at the Epic Homestead and I've got land on land on land now I will

be attempting to grow a significant amount of the plants that I love the most and I'm talking onions baby

I love myself some alliums any allium that exists unless it's inedible I guess I will eat it and I will

enjoy it and I will sing it from the mountains and

tops so the the secret then how do you grow massive onions well the problem I

hear all the time is that my onions just won't bulb up, they're not large, they're kind of pathetic,

and really the biggest mistake you're going to make in growing onions is selecting the wrong

onion to grow. When onions grow, they will grow their

leaves first. Those leaves produce a ring, the ring around, like all those layers right, the more layers than an onion, that

classic phrase, the larger the leaf, the larger the ring will be. Fun little fact. The

perfect onion has 13 rings, so they say, and the goal is to create 13 leaves

before the onion starts the second stage of its life, and how does it do that? What it will do is it will transfer the

carbohydrates that are in the leaves to the rings, aka it will bulb up. Once

the bulbing process begins, you're not going to get any more leaves.

And so the key to producing a large onion bulb is to grow really nice foliage at the start.

Now how do you do that?

You have to select the right onion varieties. You need a short or an intermediate or a long day onion type and that's based on like the name implies it already tells you it's the day length of the onion so for me you might imagine

I'm a short day onion in the north let's say you're in Washington you're probably going to be

growing a long day onion now if you're probably going to be growing a long day onion.

Now, if you're in that central band across the US,

from a latitude perspective, that's going to be your intermediate day onions.

So, the next question is, do you grow it from a seed? Do you grow it from a

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