White Rot:This very serious disease starts with infected plant material. Avoid transplants grown in soil-based compost. Stick to starting from onion seeds, onion sets, and bulbs bought from inspected producers. With white rot, the foliage will yellow and wilt; below ground, white, fluffy fungal...
If you are interested in growing real onions and not just their tops, buy onion sets. These are small, dry onion bulbs that have been grown the previous year. They are very easy gardeners to grow. Just press the small onions into the soil up to their tops, barely covered with soil 3-...
Onion sets are small, dry onion bulbs grown the previous season but not allowed to mature. Grow your own onion sets from seed. It is not difficult, does not require much time, and can put you ahead in both time and money. Planted in the second season onion sets produce an early crop...
Onion sets will produce earlier onion bulbs. The time saving is considerable – you can have bulbs growing from sets in 40-60 days – about half the time as seed started onions. Why are my onion bulbs small? Generally, if your onions are small when it is time to harvest, there are a...
For the first time, we show that the extent of fungal infection determined by real-time PCR in onion bulbs is related with VOC emission.doi:10.1016/j.postharvbio.2019.02.010Wang AimeiMd. Nahidul IslamAnders JohansenMinna Lissa Haapalainen...
If the soil remains dry during the period when the bulbs are forming, the bulbs will split or double. Harvesting You can expect harvesting onions when the onion plants send up flower stalks. This means that the onions have stopped growing and this is the best time for harvesting. ...
If you are purchasing bulbs from a local garden center, make sure the bulbs are firm, like an onion, and free of soft spots and discoloration. Avoid any that feel squishy or have dark mold spots on the surface, which could be signs of rot. Paperwhites are the most fragrant members of...
be it in a bed or in a container. Choose an airy commercial mix (ProMix HP -HighPorosity is excellent) or create a mix with half sand, or with 50% Perlite and 25% sand. These are natives of the famous Namaqualand in South Africa where many annuals and tender greenhouse bulbs grow....
Despite their name, daylilies are not “true lilies” and grow from fleshy roots. True lilies grow from onion-like bulbs and are of the genusLilium, as are Asiatic and Oriental lilies. In the case of daylilies, leaves grow from a crown, and the flowers form on leafless stems—called ...