Home Garden Course - Growing Onions

“Neversink Farm, Gardening Basics” is a series of videos intended for backyard gardeners growing food for the family and for enjoyment. Follow along as I use my many years of experience as a farmer to grow vegetables in my family garden.
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Conor Crickmore quit his job in the city and moved to the country. There he started an organic farm from scratch and never looked back.
His farm became successful due to his simple systems. He now works to help small farms succeed. His a well known educator throughout the world in small scale market farming and has been very successful at earning a good living growing vegetables on a small plot. He farms without tillage and uses mostly hand tools.
He also designs tools and hosts online courses in farming and gardening.
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[@squintps]

Keep this up and you'll be a bigger gardening legend than Charles Dowding

[@anyat8115]

trim the roots, never thought of that but it makes so much sense!

[@rickjay4639]

I'm enjoying your longer videos. Thanks

[@DanielSmith-us3dz]

Definitely the best onion video. Great job

[@janiewhyman3245]

I learn so much from you. Been gardening 35 plus years but something new always 😊

[@hebrewhomesteadupdatewalee8303]

Righteous man!!!!

[@earthmike532]

These videos are so helpful I've been terrified of onions. I've read to do all these things but seeing it done makes so much more sense

[@NeversinkFarm]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tinadigiovanni3889]

Thank you.

[@NeversinkFarm]

You're welcome!

[@marjoleinvanweersauthor]

Great video! I am going to try this method next year!

[@jasontucker3295]

best onion video Ive seen

[@doncook3584]

You skipped from sprinkling on top of tray to trimming. Did you cover seeds and wet soil? Then at 4:11 you spoke about another round of fertilizer but I didn’t see when you added first round. Growing seedlings and keeping alive long enough to plant out is very difficult for me. Mine get leggy tangled and few survive. When do you fertilize first time and do you bottom water with fertilizer when still in tray? Hope someone can answer all 3 points

[@janiewhyman3245]

Awesome

[@jasonhatfield4747]

I finally had my first successful onion crop last year for our own consumption. The main problem I've had the last couple of years though is the curing and storage. I lost more than I'd like to rot in storage. This year was much better though. I think the problem is I don't have a cold place to put them other than our basement which stays around 65 or so.

[@jasontucker3295]

Yes, that is not cold enough. a couple months tops probably.

[@simonesmit6708]

I have the same issue. I am planning to dehydrate a lot next year as that seems to be the best option. I like pickled onions as well but not in soups and stews.

[@DustySplinters]

Good Video, We are relatively in the same growing region as you. What variety of Yellow Long storage onion have you had the best success with? I have never planted or even used Shallots.

[@Rymorin4]

Go talon for yellow storage and conservor (both organic seeds) they will crush it for more northern climates

[@bramblewood8]

I just found you!! I am really enjoying your videos. My onions were very small last year. What kind of fertilizer do you use?

[@fouroakfarm]

Have shied away from bulb onions because of the challenge but am going to give it a go this year. Need to find a good intermediate-day variety, any recommendations? Thanks for the info!

[@johanneskroeper8641]

I have grown Calibra, which is a intermediate-day variety, with great success!

[@elsbeet396]

Guten Tag... Evtl. habe ich es überhört...welche Art von Dünger wird der Erde zugeführt wenn die Zwiebeln bereits gepflanzt sind? Was ist zu empfehlen? Danke für die umfangreichen Informationen👍🧅😋

[@johanneskroeper8641]

Welche Art von Dünger wurde im Video nicht erwähnt. Ich habe letztes Jahr Knochenmehl benutzt da es viel Phosphor hat.

[@grahamthomas411]

Just sub here in England some gardener's put 3seeds in one hole what's your thinking 🤔 thanks for your time 👍👍👍👍

[@kmm8742]

can we use neversink blend fertilizer for onions? TIA

[@NeversinkFarm]

Yes, you can

[@charlescoulborn1544]

Once the onion is established in your beds do you ever cut the green stems again? Asking out of ignorance.

[@Rymorin4]

no

[@katipohl2431]

Hi from Germany and you encouraged me to seed my onions now. Please don't talk about inches only but give measurements in centimeters too. Stuttgarter Riesen are my onion variety.

[@squintps]

You can't use google to convert inches to cm on your own? Or simpler, an inch is about 2.5 cm.

[@waynebusse6376]

one centimeter equals .39 inch so just under 1/2 '', so just a little over double which is close enough in the garden. Six inches is 15 centimeters but 12 is would be fine for spacing as no one would get out the tape measure in the garden. Here in Indiana we plant out around 5,0000 Candy onions each spring and I've found that planting them in individual cells of 72 to 162 count trays gives the onions less shock not having their roots disturbed when transplanted. To prune leaves in the flats I use a battery powered hedge trimmer to speed the process. We get $ 1.00 for a medium onion and $1.50 for large ones so it's worth the extra space starting them in individual flats.

[@katipohl2431]

@@squintps Bigger channels should try to be more international to attract viewers. Coming out of their cognitive and environmental bubble....

[@katipohl2431]

@@waynebusse6376 Thank you for your kind advice and happy gardening.

[@audreybarnes6527]

I'd focus on the gratitude.

[@lunkerpond9765]

What variety of red and what variety of yellow do you grow? I'm not looking to have anyone else answer this.