When planting green onion seeds, they should be sown ¼ inch deep and one inch apart. They can be thinned to one to two inches as they mature but do not need to be. In fact, we recommend planting your green onions in clumps as young plants can be easily knocked over; growing in ...
Continue to sow the seeds every few weeks. You can sow them all the way through the fall–in some parts of the south, the prime time for growing onions from seeds is fall through early spring. Make sure that the seeds you use are no more than one year old. Onion seeds lose their ...
Small immature onion bulbs, called onion sets, are planted in the spring to produce large onions in the fall. How you intend to use the onions determines the proper planting technique. Large sets planted closely produce tender green onions, while small sets planted deeply produce the best onions...
Onion seeds will need a long growing season to produce bulbs; sometimes they produce a bulb the second season they are in the ground. Sets are only available in spring. There will be a greater selection of varieties if you shop for seeds than in sets or seedlings. If you live in a...
Sow turnip seeds directly in the garden in early spring 2 to 3 weeks before the average last frost date in spring for a late spring or early summer harvest. Make successive plantings every 3 weeks until midsummer. For a fall harvest, sow turnip seeds about 9 weeks before the first expec...
Outdoors, sow seeds as soon as the soil is workable in the spring. They can take a few weeks to germinate, so don’t panic!For the best germination and growth, the temperature of the soil should be between 60º and 70ºF (15º and 21ºC). ...
Sow too early, and the plants may be ready to leave the pot before it’s warm enough. Sow seeds too late, and they won’t have enough time to reach maturity. We’ll provide some tips as well as a chart on how many weeks to sow indoors before last spring frost. ...
in advance of moving the plants outside into the garden. To make matters worse, onion seedlings are also slow growing. So, if you want to grow onion seeds indoors undergrow lights, you should start them 10 to 12 weeks before it’s time to plant them into the garden in early spring. ...
Start to pick your green onions as soon as they reach a usable size. The best time to harvest is when the bulbs are white and have a diameter about the size of a pencil, but even smaller seedlings can be harvested. In fact, it’s possible to sow onion seeds and harvestonions as mic...
When we start onion from seed, really we’re growing our own baby onion plants to transplant later. Start onion seeds very early in the year – in the Maritime Northwest,January isn’t too early. Sow them lightly in a tray filled with potting mix. Something like a take-out food tray ...