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Planting some onions!

Brendon-KS

Brendon-KS

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Location
Goessel, KS
It felt like spring today in central Kansas and I figured it was time to get some seeds in the ground. Here's a picture of planting onions with my Deere #71 planter and vegetable hopper kit. The kit consists of a special frame and drive system to allow mounting a #33 vegetable seeder hopper onto the #71 frame. It's not an attachment you see very often - for me it has more "collector value" than anything but it is fun to use it now and then. A Power King 2418 garden tractor is doing the pulling.

The ground is a little cloddy due to our severely dry winter. I had moldboard plowed in the fall but the ground dried out before the freeze/thaw cycles so the clods never mellowed. We finally got moisture this month and now these clods aren't quite as hard as they look in the picture.
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Onions?! Wow. How many do you plant? We have tried seeds but never had any luck. We usually plant onion sets. But not enough for a tractor to be involved! Lol.
 
I only did two 100-ft rows. If they do well there will be plenty to give away! Using the planter and putting in so many is basically just an excuse to use my old farm equipment!
 
Hi Brendon, I like your planter have been wanting to find a JD 71 planter unit to adapt to my Power Kings but the are priced to high for me here in MN I did get a nice Cole Planet JR seeder/planter and made a 3 pt hitch for it looks good behind the Power King but from the looks of things here in MN it will be another 4 to 6 weeks before it'll see use
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I've grown onions from seed several times with reasonable success. An important thing is that we don't get a hard rain before they're up since our clay soil can develop a hard crust and the spindly seedlings have trouble poking through. I set the planter to drop a seed about every 2 inches.
 
Nice setup! Nothing wrong with keeping collectables in usable condition. ;-)

Just planted 2 40' double rows of red/yellow sets here in Va last weekend. Love spring onions!
 
We never had success planting from seed either...just buy the 'wintered' plants in bunches from Dixondale out of Texas. Just got our order, sweet Candy yellow onions...they get up to 3 lbs pretty easy in our soil. Still eating the ones harvested last July.
 
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