Well, I see where I screwed up. I pruned mine before it rained and the weight of the water collecting in the tubulars caused all of my onions to crimp. Make sure it doesn’t rain for a few days before you prune.

The tops are also great as green onion substitutes. I cut mine into thin slices and freeze them on cookie sheets. Once frozen I pop 'em into a big freezer bag. Instant garnish for miso, any Asian dish, soups, rice dishes, anything really ,o.k. maybe not ice cream, but whatever floats yer boat eh? Great resource, don't miss out! 🧅🥗

We planted around 500 onions! I do a lot of canning with onions every year. I did this to my onions in 2 of my 8 beds. They did close up but it took about a week. You also shouldn't do this if it's going to storm or rain that week. Your onions will get water inside the leaves. A few of mine didn't do well after I had done just what you are doing. Make sure you are feeding your onions every few weeks and watering them everyday whenever it is extremely hot out. Or water them every other day because onions need a lot of water to grow! I grew softball size onions this year for the very first time and I started mine from onion starts not sets! I also ordered a pack of Walla Walla onion seeds from you and they are still growing. I also did four different kinds of soils in my garden beds. Six are raised beds and and the others are in my garden. The beds in my garden are in the ground and the onions did much much better there.

@marlenepopos12

2 ай бұрын

What do you feed your onions?

@marlenepopos12

2 ай бұрын

When you say extremely hot what temperature are you talking about?

@ichorousmedia

Ай бұрын

@@marlenepopos12 Don't ever let the soil dry out

I’m so glad I came across this. I have 500 onions and they started falling over. We have moved to a new location and this year my greens are falling over like yours. I thought it was some sort of diseases in the new soil. So, I pruned them all back pretty heavy like you did. I figured I was hurting them, but wanted to do what I could to save them because I know bending means bad news. I’m relieved to know I did the right thing! Praise The Most High!

LOL! I was actually pruning my onions to encourage bigger bulbs! I was sneaking out there to snip the outer greens for cooking during the growing season, and I thought I was hurting the bulb development. Good to know that I don't have to sneak anymore!

@chadd990

4 ай бұрын

Me too. We were inadvertently helping the bulb the entire time lol

@nadyatheis8514

3 ай бұрын

Same here!😂

@Rocco25.6

2 ай бұрын

Okay NOW YOU CAN MAKE A SALAD AND THE ONIONS WILL GREEN UP AGAIN AND YES YOU CAN KEEP REPEATING THE PROCESS TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND IF YOU PLANT A LOT YOU CAN USE SOME OOF THE ONIONS IN ALL YOUR COOKING ENJOY!!!!!

My friend did that last year, but kept the tops, dehydrated them, and they are great in soups, dressings, etc., love this! Thank you!

I take the leafs chop them up and use in baked potatoes instead of green onions.

I'll attest to dehydrating the tops! I just snipped them like chives and dried them on a cloth-lined rack. Great in soups or you can rehydrate and use in stir-fry. Blessings! 💜

@MyPeacefulGarden

11 ай бұрын

I chop mine up and freeze them. I have bags of them and use them in soups.

@grannysweet

11 ай бұрын

👍

@asimhusain8087

3 ай бұрын

Great tip now I'll be able to make better soup but however the top is where the seeds are

@trishthehomesteader9873

3 ай бұрын

@@asimhusain8087 you won't get seeds until it flowers. That stalk is more woody than the rest. I may try leaving 1 or 2 for seed next year.

This is the best video on onions I have ever seen. Thank you, I did not know that you could prune onions. I can’t wait to try it as I just planted for this spring.

This is brilliant! My tops never stand up. This will absolutely help. Thanks Luke!

Thank you, Luke, for sharing your advice on growing bigger onions.😊

Am wanting to plant onions for the first time in the spring. Will keep you helpful tips in mind!

Oh wow, I never get tired of your great tips, will try this on my next batch of onions

HOLY COW! Thank you So much for the tip on what to do with the onion tops. SO genius to dehydrate them.

Love watching your videos …so educational

Great tip...thanku

Thank you!

Thanks for sharing. I will try this.

Awesome tip! Makes so much sense. I’m a pretty new gardener, 3-4 years, but going on 2nd year growing onions. I have been devouring gardening content but never heard this and I love it. Thanks!!

Thanks, this was right on time Luke!!!

Thanks, will do that in the morning

Thank you for the tip.

Thank you so much! I’m trying onions for the first time so this is super helpful!

Thank you, thank you! I know now why my Walla Wallas stopped growing and what to do next year. Love ya, Luke!

I always trim back my onions……..great tip! Thx 🇨🇦

All i can say is AWSOME TIP !!!!!!

Thank you so much for this helpful tip! I did not know to prune my onions. I have many of them in my garden with very long leaves. I know what I'll be doing this week. Thanks Luke!

I’ll definitely try this year

Thank U 4 the Super, tip. Happy Gardening.

Thanks I was just wondering what to do about my onions and this helped immensely. God bless you.

Very helpful video! Thank you.

I was not expecting the “whip your hair back n forth, whip your hair back n forth” 😂😂

I learned a lot from this video. Thank you for teaching us all this!!!

Wow! Thank you.

Had no idea about this. Lost about half my onions now. I started with 72 red, 65 white, 40 yellow. Next year will be different. As always thanks for the info

Thank you for this! I had no idea!

Definitely going to try this next year. I just. harvested the rest of my onions yesterday. Looks like this is another video that I'm going to have to save on a playlist!

I mostly grow onions for the green tops. They are my favourite parts. I will try these tips for the actual onions. I wasn’t sure how to tell when they were ready before your video. Thank you. 😊

Thanks so much!!!

This is super helpful! Thank you!

Thanks for the information I just started going Onions this year

What a beautiful garden! Thank you for the advice!

Thank you so so much!!!

New info! Thank you 💚🌞

Thx

Great tip. I’ll try it this year.

Ooh I'm going to do this tomorrow!! My onions are behind. They are planted behind peas and are in slight shade and I was worried my onions would not bulb. They are just starting to right now. I think this tip will save my onion crop this season! Awesome ☺️

Then I would dehydrate and powder those green stalks. Great for all kinds of uses. My favorite being green onion dip.

Great tip! I had no idea!

Good tip. I just fertilized my onions last week, think it’s time for some love. Bone meal on top, light pruning and water. Don’t have much more time, the days are shrinking and so bulbs are growing.. so it’s water, warmth and fingers crossed for some decent onions.

Tks for this great onion gardening tip!

Thanks.

Thank you! You answered my question of weather I could prune them.

Great advice! Thanks!

I never knew this, thank you!

This I will test,thank you

Wow what a wonderful tip. Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you so much

I had no idea. Thanks!

Thanks, you are the man

I’m so glad your channel came up in my feed. I needed this information. 👍🏻

I just topped my onions on Monday 😊 Hoping for big bulbs to come. Eastern Colorado 5b

Take your clippings, course dice them and dry. Makes a great addition to soups. If you powder them, add to mashed potatoes while cooking. Yumm.

really great tip ........love it

Thanks a lot

Thanks Luke! I've always been afraid to cut the tops off my onions. I'll be fixing them now! Always great videos & tons of information!

@heatherpfeil2939

11 ай бұрын

Same. Off to find my pruners! ✂️

Thanks a lot for the pruning tip... I had NO idea!

I will definitely try this next year. Most of my onions are harvested this year. I'm going to add this note to my gardening notebook so that I remember it for next year. Thanks. Luke!

@utubemouse

11 ай бұрын

Need to follow your example of keeping a garden notebook!

@carmenlamanna5391

11 ай бұрын

@@utubemouse Best thing you can do!

@callikohl5698

11 ай бұрын

I keep a notebook, too. Best thing I started for keeping information.

Great tip about onions!

grew onions for the first time this year, and yes they were quite small. will try this tip next year for sure. dry those tops with herbs and dried tomatopells, grind up and use as seasoning

Onion pruning is on my to do list for fall gardening in Houston community garden.

I just saw this video. I didn't know about pruning onions! I do now and will follow this practice.

Love the tip! I have saved some onion seeds for the first time. Hopeing to have an epic harevst. This tip will help with that. Grow Bigger!!

Looking forward to making use of this great information Next Year! In the meantime, I am enjoying my harvested “little” onions! 😉😁

"I'm so inspired by your gardening skills! Can't wait to try some of your tips! 🌱🍅

This worked well last year for me. This year I didn't have as much time. I did however plant them a little closer together. The plants seemed to do a good job of supporting each other and the size was decent. Except for the ones on the edge that didn't have as much support and fell over sooner.

Great video! Straight to the point with useful info

Great tip! I did not know I could do this, but I will from now on. :)

Thanks for the great information!

Okay... thank you! i was getting nervous about pinching the longer ones, but will carry on..

Thanks Luke, Thought I knew everything about onions until I watched this. Top Man!

I've completely topped my garlic before and it did well. I'll try it with my onions.

I was just wondering what I could do to get bigger onions. Thanks for the tip!

Something I learned as a young lad, a good use for the green onion top is that they also taste good with a cold biscuit. Might not be to the taste of everyone, but to each his own.

I've been following this method for a few years now, but here are some things I have learned. One, cutting that leaf can make the onion more prone to disease, and sometimes snails can hide in the open space. Second, a commenter on KZread said that if onion leaves are falling over (in less windy conditions) it is because they are underwatered. This is the first year I have been testing that theory, in addition to pinching folded leaves as well. Overall there are less folded leaves with constant watering AND less disease, and they're not done quite yet but they are looking bigger than normal.

Great information

Great video......I learned quite a bit.

Wow those are some great ideas there. I just came back from my garden but I'll go again tomorrow morning and do exactly that ( I have a community garden plot about a mile from my home).

Thanks for the tip! I have a storm coming in a couple of days so I will anxiously await being able to prune some of mine back!

Yeah!

I found my smallest tops produced the smallest bulbs. My large/strong tops had the biggest bulbs. I didn't trim any. I will for sure do this next year

Thank you for all this information. It will be well use this summer. I also have heard that you can make onion top pesto and freeze it.

Thank you so much for that reminder about cutting the onion tops. Last night l went out in the garden and started cutting them and received a basket full. I am going to make green onion powder with them.😀

So its not only ok to hack the tops for eating but its beneficial. Awesome

The neck of all my onions fell over early. I believed that they wouldn’t grow much bigger and picked the majority of them. Well those I left in ground continued to grow bigger despite the neck being soft and bent

@JohnWood-tk1ge

11 ай бұрын

Was following your tips on onions including pruning then we got 8 plus inches of rain in twelve hours and all my tops were knocked over. Pulled them and put fall gardening stuff in that bed.

@brg2743

11 ай бұрын

We pulled onions that did that one year, dried them and used them for onion sets the following spring.

Great tips 👍🏻😃

I will try this with my next crop!

I think using very clean sharp shears would help with trimming, but I think I would trim all of the by lifting all the leaves of each onion and trimming. Love your top on what to do with the trimmed leaves! No waste!

I 've been looking for the answer about trimming your onions...now I know....thx...

There is some controversy about pruning onions, some people say don't. I don't prune as heavily as you but I do prune when I plant and later I prune bent blades. I usually cut after the bend though to keep the blade closed.

@origmainstmama2455

4 ай бұрын

Hmmm. You cut after the bend so the tip stays closed? That’s thinking outside the box! Coloring outside the lines… Very creative. 👍

@MynewTennesseeHome

3 ай бұрын

@@origmainstmama2455 Aww, thank you.😊