This is the best gardening instructional video I have ever seen. I'm serious. Cheers from South Carolina.

@wholefedhomestead

6 ай бұрын

Well thanks so much, I really appreciate that!

@annettevanderklippe1653

4 ай бұрын

I agree! So helpful 😊

@SugunaMahesh-cu1yt

3 ай бұрын

I agree too❤

Now that's an efficient, well designed video. Right to point instruction, the whole process in 13 minutes.

At last a good and complete explanation of what to do.....I tried tour method😢!..! I had big and healthy onions. Thank you very much! Greetings form northen Italy.

@wholefedhomestead

25 күн бұрын

Love hearing that!

Total garden newbie here and I learned more from this one video than hours spent watching others. I feel much more confident about starting my onion seeds and can’t wait to see how they turn out.

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! And good luck!! 🥰

This is my first year starting onions from seed. Just finding your video, but I think I am on track. I am glad to see how you personally planted. Hopefully, we will plant next week.

I have had difficulty with growing seed onion. This video is so helpful and learned a few things I can try. Thank you so much!

Wow.. you are really detailed.. this is what mine needed.. thank you❤❤

Just found ur vids, they’re amazing! Luv the step by step details ‼️

Can’t wait to see part 3 of this really informative onion series.

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

Coming soon!!

This video is great!!! Such good instructions without giving too much complicating unnecessary info!

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! 🥰

This is by far the best video on how to grow onions. Thank you so much for this! Out to the garden I now go! ❤

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Happy gardening!

Thank You So Much! These are the BEST videos on Onions that I've watched. You are so specific & I love the time lapse so we see the whole process. Very excited to try it this way next year. I've never had an onion bigger than maybe a baseball. Also your voice is very soothing/calming to listen to. ❤😊

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks! 😊😊

I'm afraid to trimming onions Wasn't happy first trimming try At 10 days, you're double the size of mine 😮 My seedlings mixture I added worm casting . My garage LEDS isn't equal to your so I should expect half the growth speed. I didn't see your planting video I've got to check out the planting seedlings video Very good looking seedlings 😮 Thanks

Honestly I have been binging on your videos this morning. I believe you have made me a video addict! Very interesting content! Jim in California

@wholefedhomestead

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Jim! 😊

Thank you for this helpful video! First year starting onions from seed here and so far so good!

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

I stopped using onion set several years ago and now only plant onions that are started by seed. I’ve been having the best onion crop ever since.

So helpful! Love this series of videos. Last year my onions never grew past the thin seedling stage. I'm following along with your videos and hope to have better success this year!

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! And good luck!!

Great tutorial on trimming the seedlings! I tried growing onions from seed back in the 1970's, but gave up because it seemed like an exercise in futility. So, like most gardeners I planted sets, which are short day onions I believe , not the long day onions I started some long day onions this year in early Feb, and trimmed them to 5" or so, and was hesitant to keep trimming them to 5". After watching your video, I'm going to give my onions another haircut. Best video I've seen yet on maintaining onion seedlings! Thanks for posting!

This was my first time watching this video, but I learned a lot about onion. I have been buying the green onions out of the store and setting the bottom part out. I notice how the green top flops over. Now I know to trim them like you do. I am in Texas, where it gets extremely hot in the summer. I have a package of big root yellow onion seeds that I am planting either last of February or early March.

This grower came up with almost the exact same method I have used for years. When you do the bulk trimming, you can grab a bunch of the onion tops with one hand and cut the entire handful at once, then put those tops in a bowl for cooking later. Those tops can be added to soup, or mixed with an egg and fried - I usually use one large handful of tops, plus a few cloves of chopped garlic, mixed with one egg.

Excellent! I have been a fanatical gardener for half a century and I keep learning. This is the best most detailed video on onion growing I have seen. The only thing I will adapt from another channel is using vermiculite after sowing. It works beautifully to prevent all sort of mishaps, especially when dealing with fungus gnats.

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that, thank you!

Thank you for these videos! My onion seedlings were a huge fail this summer. Looking forward to next spring!

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

Good luck! 🥰🥰

Very detailed video, just what I needed, thanks.

Thank you for your video. I have only ever grown onions from sets but now I have bought seeds and I am ready to sow these just as you have instructed. I shall follow your videos that’s for sure.

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

Good luck!!

Thank you for showing this. I have struggled with getting good roots on my onions from seed. I will follow your suggestions. Your onion starting tutorial is the best I have seen. I see what I could be doing better. Happy gardening.

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Good luck!

Easily the best series of videos on starting thru harvesting onions that I have been able to find on KZread. Thank you for your thoroughness. Maybe next year I will actually get some onions I can use. 🤨

@wholefedhomestead

9 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that, thank you! 🥰

I am so glad that I came across this video, since I am just about to start planting onions from seed for the first time. This is the most comprehensive video that I have seen so far. Thank you so much. Now I am also going to watch the Part 1 and Part 3 and save all three of them for future reference.

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

This was fantastic. I started my seeds about 2 weeks ago in small modules and wish I'd used your method. Next year. Excellent video. Keep up the good work.

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!! 💗

i pretty much do almost the exact same routine, your method, too. However, I've only trimmed my onions once per season. Never knew that you trim it that much before transplanting outside. (Zone 6b/7a New England - Long Day!)

I'm excited to grow onions this year after feeling defeated last year!! Thanks for the great instructions!

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Good luck!

I have just come a crossed your onion videos and have found them very helpful 👍🥔🌱

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that! 💗

I’m looking forward to following your videos and have a great crop. Thanks so much for your advice and keep the videos coming.! They are great!

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Good luck! 💗🌱

Just viewed your videos on onions, love it!!! On to part 3!

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Best video iv watched just going back to growing from seed, had bad results last few seasons with sets 👍🇬🇧

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!! Best of luck!!

Good Morning from the UK, I have learnt quite a lot from your videos. I have always grown onions from seed, it's so simple and compared to the price of sets it's an obvious choice. I didn't know that they are biennial, now you have explained it makes a lot of sense. We pay extortionate prices for our electricity and so there's no way I could use the fan or a light. I'm hoping this year to have some ready for our village show along with some of my other veg and flowers. I'll have to build a drying grid, that's a brilliant idea. I'll let you know if your help wins a rosette.

Just found your channel and subscribed. I've been starting my own seeds for about 5 years. I've never tried onions. I'm in North Texas and we plant ours in late January in the garden so I'm gonna start mine about Halloween. You do great job on your videos.

@wholefedhomestead

11 ай бұрын

Thanks- I really appreciate that! 🥰

Such a helpful video. I started onions this year but the seedlings all died, not once but twice! My other seedlings did great but the onions were a disappointment. I've already added a note to my planting spreadsheet to come back to this video next March when I'm ready to try again. Thank you for pulling this together with such clear guidance!

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

Better luck next year!!

Oops. I just watched and commented on your previous video, passing along a tip about rinsing the roots in water to untangle the roots.

This series is so helpful thank you!

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that, thank you!

Simply Brilliant - thanks !

Following your advice this is the first time ever after four years of failure my onions from seed are healthy and doing excellent, I'm shocked. Thanks so much for your advice and help.👍🏻❤️

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

Yay!! Love to hear that- good luck!

waiting for part 3

I cut the roots back to about 1/2"-1" before i transplant them. This keeps from planting the bulb too deep and also helps keep the transplant sturdy. Works good.

I bought cheap $2 onion seedlings from Walmart last year and it was a hot mess, onions in tray like this but they flopped everywhere. But separated them all out when I planted and got a few big onions that I planted with my strawberries. This year I’m doing exactly this and growing my own seeds. So far so good and hope I can get a few big ones again. Thank you for this video.

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Best of luck!!

Amazing! Thank you! These have been so helpful.

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

So glad to hear that! 💗

I've tried growing onion sets and they just don't get big so this year I bought onion seed. Going to get planting those soon and have fantastic information to help me along the way thanks to your videos.

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Good luck!

Great video on growing onions! In my trials I have found the same issues. You are right that the seed is finicky. I did not trim, but again you are right on in their growth process. The reason I started growing my own is that the starts are so expensive. This season the starts I purchased molded do to me not paying attention, we had an unusually rainy spring, the box was left outside in the rain and by the time I discovered my error $ 300.00 of starts were ruined. I am looking forward to Starting onions from seed next February.

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

Best of luck!!

WOW! what a brilliant video! I agree with the other posts that you have a gift! Subscribed :)

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, I really appreciate that! 😊

Very nice instruction. Thank you! Even better, please indicate your location/zone, as well as the planting dates. Love your videos.

Well explained and learned alot.thank u so much!!

@wholefedhomestead

9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Excellent video!! Im a bit late but Im going to sow my onion seeds today!

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Happy growing!

Great information, well done 😊

@wholefedhomestead

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Very much liked this 3 part onion series, once planted in the ground how did you fertilize? Thankyou.

Hi I’m from Newfoundland, Canada and love your videos on growing onions from seeds! This is my first time doing it and they are off to a good start thanks to you! I didn’t have e soil that fertilizer added so when would be a good time for me to give them a little and what kind and how much do you recommend? Thanks so much!

Very information, thanks

Very nice.

Excellent

Wonderful info. Bestestest!! Please advise your Zone and your last frost. Appreciate.

@wholefedhomestead

3 ай бұрын

Zone 4/Mid-may

Awesome trio of videos. Growing from seed for my first time this season. Did I miss anything about feeding? I did not remember if you mentioned that. Thank you

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

I don’t feed them, but you may consider it if you have poor soil.

I watch The Seasonal Homestead. She recommends your Freeze Fresh book. Decided to subscribe to your channel.

@wholefedhomestead

11 ай бұрын

Thanks and welcome! 🥰

Yeay finnally found a channel for my zone ! Im in southern Mn. So you dont chop the any roots And we hope this will not be another drought year as in 2021 2022 and 2023

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

I have a bad feeling about another drought year coming, but fingers crossed! And no I definitely don’t chop the roots.

@Jane-ez7yl

4 ай бұрын

​@@wholefedhomestead Thanks, I have a feeling too the la Nina weather pattern is coming back I heard. yes this year my onions are going in ground not raised bed it doesn't work for soakers hoses cause of gravity , plus i had onion thrips last year and changing their location . But Good luck with this year gardens everyone!

😮 you do t like to hear a fan at night. lol I could not sleep with out one

I have enjoyed part 1 & 2. Onions are the one thing I CANNOT grow! No success. But I have learned so much from these two videos I cannot wait for the end of January to start my seedlings. I feel like I can do it now. lol 😂

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

You can!! Best of luck!!

@callyscraftycorner2463

8 ай бұрын

Same here, nothing in 3 years. I was even looking at purchasing transplants, but I’ll give it another try. Thank you.

Her voice sounds just like some videos I watched when the family was planning a trip to Disney world.

New here. Awesome video🌱 thanks for sharing 😊

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! 🥰

@SashasGarden38

5 ай бұрын

@@wholefedhomestead You're welcome 🤗

I purchased a tray of seedlings from an organic market gardener and he sowed them very heavily. Would you recommend thinning out but cutting some out completely or would you re-pot to achieve the lengths you have by offering more space in this early growth period?

Liked, suscribed. Your video had a very good and straight to point information. Thank you.

Excellent detail...you should teach classes!

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Aww thanks!

Q? What is your zone and frost date? We are recommended to put onions out end of March 4 weeks before last frost.. zone 6a. Four season long winters. They are cool season hardy. Long day onions. Might that be the reason you hesitate to put yours in, due to different requirement🤔

Becky from acre homestead sent me here! I live her and so happy to have found you too. These onion videos r so helpful! Thank u!! Also I'm curious what growing zone you are in? Thanks again!

@battleground5384

4 ай бұрын

I love her* not live...

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

So glad they were useful! And Becky is so kind to mention me! 💗💗 We are zone 4 Wisconsin.

Great videos! Not sure if I missed it, did you say if/when you take them off the heat mat?

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

Right after they all sprout!

Never trim there in the uk mine end up 1 inch thick at bulb end

This is how I do my onions only I keep all my greens I trim off and use them as chives

Can you eat the onion bits that get cut off with each trimming? I do when I trim sets, but I figured it was worth asking since I’ve never done sees before. Thanks! Amazing info in the video! I can’t wait to start my seeds this year!

@wholefedhomestead

8 ай бұрын

Yes!! 😊

Excellent work! My problem has always been that the planted onions do not bulb up. They do well in the basement, but never seem to grow on when planted.

@wholefedhomestead

6 ай бұрын

Are you growing the right day length type and starting them early enough?

Never heard of trimming onion seedlings before.

My seeds have sprouted..Yay! Does this same method work for leeks?

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

I haven’t grown leeks, but I bet it’s similar.

Anyone know if this technique works with leeks as well? I.e., Trimming the of tops seedlings and outdoor plants?

? After the seedling are at stage 2, is 50 to 55 degrees too cold for them to grow indoors. I normally only keep my indoor grow room at about 55 degrees until march. This will be my first year starting onions in January. I did a test run in may this year with a tray. I will be using a heating mat and doom to start the seeds.

@wholefedhomestead

6 ай бұрын

I would think that would be okay, but I haven’t firsthand tried that so couldn’t say for sure.

Great series. Thank you. What does "an inch a week" really mean. How do I DO it?

@wholefedhomestead

21 күн бұрын

That's a good question and not one I'm the best to answer.... we don't typically have to water our gardens here because it rains every week.

The trimming is a great additional knowledge, but does it makes the onions grow bigger or it’s just to support the leaves ?

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

It does make them thicken up, yes

I followed your Instagram story for growing onions this year before this video was out. My onions did not get strong stalks and roots like yours, and they were babied. I’m thinking it’s because my seed starting cells were not as tall/deep. Do you think that has a big impact? I’m planning for next year and what I can do differently to help them.

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the deep pot helps a lot. Strong light, and starting early in the season. Good luck!

What did you you use to fertile your onions and how often did you fertilize them?

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

We don’t fertilize them!

Hi! How long was it from the sowing till they go in ground in the garden? Like 2 months? Thanks1

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Yes, about 2 months 👍🏻

About how long between planting the seeds and when the onions are ready to be planted outside?

@wholefedhomestead

4 ай бұрын

10 weeks or so, give or take

I have a question concerning your lights. Are they T5? I use T5 4 bulb lights and they get pretty hot. I read that onion starts should be kept at 60-68° so I'm kinda reluctant to use them to close to the plants. How far away do you keep your lights. This is the first year I'm starting onions indoors so any info would be helpful. Great video series on onions probably the best on YT. Thanks.

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes they are T5 and they are warm. I keep them at least a foot or more up typically.

@kansasgardener5844

5 ай бұрын

@@wholefedhomestead Thank you..

Last year my onions never bulked up. I wonder if it's because I planted too deep or covered with too much mulch. Can you talk a bit more about how deep to plant as well as the mulching issue, please?

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

Oh bummer! I did talk about how deep to plant in this video. And we don’t mulch- I do think it helps if they’re not buried. Also make sure you have the right type of onions for your latitude.

@jklin2987

Жыл бұрын

@@wholefedhomestead I know you talked about planting depth but I couldn't see exactly how deep you went. I'm giving it a go again this year, minus the mulch. Thank you.

What will you do with the leaves after harvesting?

@wholefedhomestead

8 ай бұрын

Check out the 3rd video in the series for that info!

where are you located in Wi?

CAT-A-CADE!!!!!!!!! CRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can someone share the link of part 1?

@wholefedhomestead

9 ай бұрын

Check the video description for the links to other videos 👍🏻

Great video. Thanks for making

@wholefedhomestead

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

when did you start seeding?

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

End of February or beginning March

Good info…. But I’ve always put my seeds right in the ground in late spring with the same results. This just seems like a lot of extra steps.

@wholefedhomestead

11 ай бұрын

What is your growing zone?

All my onions have flopped none of them stand up

@alekseyl

2 ай бұрын

So are mine, I presume that I didn't water them good enough: I was watering them frequently but with too small amount of water - didn't know that their roots are apparently grow very deep. I'm also wondering if trimming was important.. But mine are non dead yet: all of the first leaf are laying on the ground, but there are a couple of the "second generation" ones.

Waiting for part 3?

@wholefedhomestead

9 ай бұрын

Posted!

Well, part one and two of onion growing were excellent videos. Sadly, you mentioned a part three; yet, it does not exist. I bet if you had down it, it would have been as great as one and two, unless they died?

@wholefedhomestead

11 ай бұрын

I haven’t harvested my onions yet but will be putting that video out soon after I do…

Excellent