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What is a good overwinter onion?
Hi All,
What is a good overwinter yellow onion? I am zone 6c. Many thanks, -T |
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On Monday, October 9, 2017 at 3:59:43 PM UTC-4, T wrote:
Hi All, What is a good overwinter yellow onion? I am zone 6c. Many thanks, -T Hi, T. I asked my wife, who has been working with overwinter crops for some years now. Here's her reply: "Territorial sells a yellow multiplier onion that has been overwintering for us for years. They are small and make doubles.They also sell seed for supposedly overwintering regular large onions, but none have thrived for us: we're in 7B, Maryland. I'd have thought that would be similar to Oregon's cli= mate where Territorial is, but apparently not." She also said that the multiplier onions are good when harvested as green onions for salad. Paul |
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On 10/09/2017 07:36 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Monday, October 9, 2017 at 3:59:43 PM UTC-4, T wrote: Hi All, What is a good overwinter yellow onion? I am zone 6c. Many thanks, -T Hi, T. I asked my wife, who has been working with overwinter crops for some years now. Here's her reply: "Territorial sells a yellow multiplier onion that has been overwintering for us for years. They are small and make doubles.They also sell seed for supposedly overwintering regular large onions, but none have thrived for us: we're in 7B, Maryland. I'd have thought that would be similar to Oregon's cli= mate where Territorial is, but apparently not." She also said that the multiplier onions are good when harvested as green onions for salad. Paul Thank you! |
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T wrote:
Hi All, What is a good overwinter yellow onion? I am zone 6c. i don't really know what you mean by overwinter onion. i suppose i could look that up, but imma not in the mood for that... for storage or left in the ground? here onions grow ok and if not careful will spread like the garlic and take over. i have thousands of seeds from some of the bulbs that have flowered. i only plant a few. they need to be thinned properly to produce well. if i took those and scattered them around i'd have more onions than i could possibly ever eat. for an arid climate water is always the limiting factor on producing good topsoil and any veggies it will grow. mulches, wind breaks, some shade during the worst of the season may help increase size of bulbs. we grow the large yellow onions known as sweet Kelcey or something like that. they get very big and are not super strong. for storage i pull them when they're done and cure them and they keep for several months. we usually use them all up long before they go bad. songbird |
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On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 8:41:30 AM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
T wrote: Hi All, What is a good overwinter yellow onion? I am zone 6c. i don't really know what you mean by overwinter onion. i suppose i could look that up, but imma not in the mood for that... for storage or left in the ground? Meaning left in the ground over winter to start growing again in the early spring. here onions grow ok and if not careful will spread like the garlic and take over. i have thousands of seeds from some of the bulbs that have flowered. i only plant a few. they need to be thinned properly to produce well. if i took those and scattered them around i'd have more onions than i could possibly ever eat. for an arid climate water is always the limiting factor on producing good topsoil and any veggies it will grow. mulches, wind breaks, some shade during the worst of the season may help increase size of bulbs. we grow the large yellow onions known as sweet Kelcey or something like that. they get very big and are not super strong. for storage i pull them when they're done and cure them and they keep for several months. we usually use them all up long before they go bad. songbird |
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On 10/11/2017 05:40 AM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: Hi All, What is a good overwinter yellow onion? I am zone 6c. i don't really know what you mean by overwinter onion. i suppose i could look that up, but imma not in the mood for that... for storage or left in the ground? here onions grow ok and if not careful will spread like the garlic and take over. i have thousands of seeds from some of the bulbs that have flowered. i only plant a few. they need to be thinned properly to produce well. if i took those and scattered them around i'd have more onions than i could possibly ever eat. for an arid climate water is always the limiting factor on producing good topsoil and any veggies it will grow. mulches, wind breaks, some shade during the worst of the season may help increase size of bulbs. we grow the large yellow onions known as sweet Kelcey or something like that. they get very big and are not super strong. for storage i pull them when they're done and cure them and they keep for several months. we usually use them all up long before they go bad. songbird By "over winter", I mean to plant them in the fall. To me "over winter" is CHEATING!!! What do you mean by "cure them"? -T |
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T wrote:
.... By "over winter", I mean to plant them in the fall. To me "over winter" is CHEATING!!! that is actually how many onions would grow naturally, if you notice how they set seeds and drop them. they start growing in the fall when the rains come and then wait under the snow until it warms up enough to keep on growing. if they get big enough from the previous season they will flower the next. if they aren't large enough then they just form a bulb and wait until the following year. this is why when buying onion sets you don't get ones that are too large. What do you mean by "cure them"? after harvesting, i take the roots off and then leave them to air dry for several weeks so the bottoms won't rot if they get stacked together. pretty much the same approach is used for garlic (but the garlic doesn't like being left in the sun, onions don't seem to mind as much). note though that we do not get really hot here in the fall normally so leaving them in the sun is ok, but because of rains i usually just keep them set out on a table in the garage until they get used. the squash are pretty much the same too. we set them out so they can cure before we stack them in a bin for storage. songbird |
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On 10/11/2017 2:53 PM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: ... By "over winter", I mean to plant them in the fall. To me "over winter" is CHEATING!!! that is actually how many onions would grow naturally, if you notice how they set seeds and drop them. they start growing in the fall when the rains come and then wait under the snow until it warms up enough to keep on growing. if they get big enough from the previous season they will flower the next. if they aren't large enough then they just form a bulb and wait until the following year. this is why when buying onion sets you don't get ones that are too large. What do you mean by "cure them"? after harvesting, i take the roots off and then leave them to air dry for several weeks so the bottoms won't rot if they get stacked together. pretty much the same approach is used for garlic (but the garlic doesn't like being left in the sun, onions don't seem to mind as much). note though that we do not get really hot here in the fall normally so leaving them in the sun is ok, but because of rains i usually just keep them set out on a table in the garage until they get used. the squash are pretty much the same too. we set them out so they can cure before we stack them in a bin for storage. songbird That's what I thought he meant. After I dried them hanging on the deck, I removed as much of the trash as I could and put them in mesh bags, like you buy them in, to hang from the basement ceiling. They kept for months. |
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On 10/11/2017 11:53 AM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: ... By "over winter", I mean to plant them in the fall. To me "over winter" is CHEATING!!! that is actually how many onions would grow naturally, if you notice how they set seeds and drop them. they start growing in the fall when the rains come and then wait under the snow until it warms up enough to keep on growing. if they get big enough from the previous season they will flower the next. if they aren't large enough then they just form a bulb and wait until the following year. this is why when buying onion sets you don't get ones that are too large. What do you mean by "cure them"? after harvesting, i take the roots off and then leave them to air dry for several weeks so the bottoms won't rot if they get stacked together. pretty much the same approach is used for garlic (but the garlic doesn't like being left in the sun, onions don't seem to mind as much). note though that we do not get really hot here in the fall normally so leaving them in the sun is ok, but because of rains i usually just keep them set out on a table in the garage until they get used. the squash are pretty much the same too. we set them out so they can cure before we stack them in a bin for storage. songbird Thank you! |
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On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 10:03:46 AM UTC-4, T wrote:
On 10/11/2017 05:01 PM, wrote: Our growing season is from June to October. Do you start many vegies indoors? I try to in the garage, but I need a growing lamp. I can't gown in the house as a member of my family is super sensitive to the molds in dirt. Have you tried making a cold frame? I made some by attaching left-over polycarbonate from the greenhouse construction to 2X2 frames. They're 3' by 4' by 1.5' high. My wife uses them to start plants outdoors early in the season when it's too cold for them to grow unprotected; they work very well. In the linked picture, they're the white cubes out in the garden. http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...tml?sort=3&o=0 Paul |
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On 10/13/2017 06:17 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 10:03:46 AM UTC-4, T wrote: On 10/11/2017 05:01 PM, wrote: Our growing season is from June to October. Do you start many vegies indoors? I try to in the garage, but I need a growing lamp. I can't gown in the house as a member of my family is super sensitive to the molds in dirt. Have you tried making a cold frame? I made some by attaching left-over polycarbonate from the greenhouse construction to 2X2 frames. They're 3' by 4' by 1.5' high. My wife uses them to start plants outdoors early in the season when it's too cold for them to grow unprotected; they work very well. In the linked picture, they're the white cubes out in the garden. http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...tml?sort=3&o=0 Paul I am not sure I am up to it. I have zero spare time between the business and the family. We also have hurricane force 1 winds. Two years ago, up to 130 MPH. Leaves blew into chain link fences and made them solid, blowing them across the highways. |
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