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growing onions from seed?

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kyplowboy

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Get'n cabin fever pretty bad and thinking about the garden a good bit. We always grow green onions from sets and have great luck with them but I never have any luck growing onions from seed. They never seem to come up good and seems like just as they start come'n up we get a real hard rain and they just kind of set ther. Was wander'n if any one started seed inside and them put them out after they were up? Seems like this would give them more of shot at do'n well. Thanks in advance.

Dave
 
I never tried onions from seed but I did buy onion plants and they did much better than onion sets If you can get onoins started from seed and trasplant them you will be ok
 
Just grow dope and sell it in Michigan..Oughta round out your baccer operation pretty good. Betcha wouldn't have any trouble finding help to harvest it.

Dave
 
Hello Dave,
Tried some from seed last year and it worked pretty well seeding them in a water bed along with the other garden transplants. I transplanted them when they were about 3 inches tall, sort of spindly but they grew out and made decent size onions. You raise tobacco so you are familiar with water bed culture so no explaination is neccesary. Good luck.
Joe
 
We grow about 600-800 onion plants a year from seed. My sister does most of the care of the seedlings, but she grows them in plugs and we transplant them at about 3-4" high, usually in April here in northern NY. We never had good luck with sets, but they ones from seed do very well, and it's cheaper.
Zach
 
Thats what I was thinking. I have been starting stuff in a tray like peppers and tomatos but never tried onions. One of these years I am going to try some sweet corn, change the cogs around on the old Holland, bum a tractor with a creeper gear and corner the early early sweet corn market. If I keep on I am going to have a bigger veggie bed than backer bed.

Good news is found out yesterday I did not get another cut on my backer contract so I won't have to shorten my big bed again this year. :)
 
Thats what I was thinking. I have been starting stuff in a tray like peppers and tomatos but never tried onions. One of these years I am going to try some sweet corn, change the cogs around on the old Holland, bum a tractor with a creeper gear and corner the early early sweet corn market. If I keep on I am going to have a bigger veggie bed than backer bed.

Good news is found out yesterday I did not get another cut on my backer contract so I won't have to shorten my big bed again this year. :)
 
only way i ever get onion seed to sprout is scratch it in with a lawn rake and loop a soaker hose over the bed...when ya see sprouts,turn hose off.
 
I have never seen onion seeds when an onion blooms you have a bunch of small sets that are in a ball on top of stem . I have started onions from them.
 
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