WE GREW A 3 POUND ONION! | How Did We Do It?

[@markoliver-ww9ld]

This channel should have more subs, out of all the gardening channels i watch, this is one of my favorites.

[@Life-ch8rj]

Thanks for teaching this Georgia boy how to grow those MONSTER onions.

[@TalkingThreadsMedia]

Hi, Travis. Looking at all your onions makes me feel like Pavlov’s dog - AFTER the bell has been rung! What a beautiful harvest! Congratulations! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/8/2023.

[@anyat8115]

Quite impressive, Travis! Thanks for all your videos...

[@Maria-ql3fc]

Wow! You certainly have bragging rights for those big onions.

[@jennifercaudle8826]

To make my onions store longer, I chop them like I will use them in recipe and freeze them in large freezer bags and just break off how much I need each time I cook with onions.

[@tribesc8762]

Best garden channel on KZbin … I’m in Columbia, Sc and it’s awesome to have another Deep South garden who understands our growing conditions !!!! Great job!!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks!

[@ColRubyDimplesManacha]

Whooooa Nelly! Those are some biggunions!!

[@marksexton1340]

I would love to see a video on your storage methods for onions as well as potatoes.... Here in the Mojave desert, we struggle with this.

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

What gorgeous onions! A couple of nice steaks and a big mess of fried onions would be a great way to celebrate that awesome harvest!

[@miltonwelch8619]

Good job! Thanks for the fertilizing info.

[@tommathews3964]

Fine job, brother!

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Looks like it’s time to make you a big ol’ batch of onion moonshine, Tickle!

[@LazyDogFarm]

I've missed your "Tickle" references. Glad to see you're back at it!

[@shadyacrefarm1005]

Travis growing onions big enough to do dumbbell curls with!

[@sandraoconnor5700]

How are the boys and baby girl doing❤❤❤Miss seeing them gardening with you ❤❤❤❤

[@LazyDogFarm]

Doing great!

[@whitestone4401]

Just WOW!

[@tamararoberts9307]

I've been gardening for many years and just started bulb onions 3 years ago and you still have me beat on size 😮

[@priayief]

Wow! It is so cool to see that you're harvesting onions at this time of year, as well as planning for a warm-weather. follow-up crop for the rest of the season. I'm from the north, where we grow the long-day variety, and I'm lucky if I can plan a follow-up crop once my onions are harvested.

[@MrCorvettegirl2]

Hello Lazy dog farm Your garden is beautiful 🤗and your videos are enjoyable!!! Thank you Brenda

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Brenda!

[@waynec3121]

Travis congratulations on growing monster onions great video

[@Mstymntntop]

Congrats on those onions! It would be really cool if you could do a progression video that showed you panting and feeding over time. There is a KZbin channel, Hollis?? that does these types of videos. I think they are the most informative as it condenses everything for a specific crop to a whole season of growing. I know I could go back and find all of your updates, but lots of people want to see a start to finish product in one video.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I've thought about doing that. It would take quite a bit of editing time, but I think it would nice to have it all compiled.

[@James-ib2kp]

Great video on onions, not to mention great looking onions.

[@bobbun9630]

Melons won't be planted this year, for me, until I harvest wheat, likely sometime in the middle of June. Onions... I have a fair number of perennial onions, so I'm not as concerned about harvesting them to make space for something else. The biennial onion I planted is "Cabernet", which is a "late intermediate" type adapted for 35 degrees and further north. I'm at 36N. It hasn't started forming bulbs yet, but it is beginning to put on some nice top growth now that the weather has begun warming up. This is my first year planting this variety, so I guess I'll find out how it does. Nice crop of crabgrass and smartweed, by the way. 🙂

[@LazyDogFarm]

Crabgrass grows great here! lol

[@bobbun9630]

@@LazyDogFarm It grows great just about everywhere! Technically the seed is edible as a grain, but I have a hard time imagining anyone going to all the work to make that happen. I need to do more tarping, timely pulling, and deep mulching to get mine under control.

[@dand7056]

I have used your tips to grow some nice onion 2 years in a row. This year i tried DP sweet, timon and Chianti. All did well but i had more like 40% splitting of the DP sweet. Does watering too much cause splitting. I even have some triplets. But they will saute the same 😂. I am gonna try the white phantom onion next year if they store longer and more timons since my wife likes the round onions better. Says they peel easier. Everyone who has tried these onions wants more and comment on how much better they are than store onions. Thanks again.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Seemed like my DP Sweets were already split before I started really pouring the water to them in the bulbing stage. Not really sure what causes it.

[@stevefromthegarden1135]

You got some really big onions out there. Monster size is about right.

[@mutantryeff]

I pull the dehydrator out to keep some dried onions on hand for making different things that don't demand a fresh onion when I have no option. They can even be rehydrated and dropped in a bit of grease if that is needed for the recipe.

[@steveno87]

Thanks!

[@jameskiley4182]

I declare you ONION CHAMPION OF THE WORLD!!!!.

[@backwoodscountryboy1600]

You did good, them onions are beautiful.

[@pamelaroden5513]

WOWZA!

[@jo-annjewett198]

Today I harvested all my bunching onions and replanted a few babies. Dehydrating it all. They we’re starting to flower. My big sweet Texas onions are just starting to fall over here and there. I have onions bordering almost all my raised beds and will harvest as I need them until I have to harvest them all.

[@kimberlybenienministries2715]

I am very excited about your successful onion harvest and hope to try them as well. For the storing some might consider freeze drying them. All the flavor and nutrients.

[@tammyohlsson7966]

I hope you get to a sponsorship from the onions and can sell starts next year. I’m in!

[@gardeningsimplified]

This year we are having to harvest our onions in two stages. A 9 degree freeze killed about 60% of the crop, so we grew more transplants to replace them. The common rule is, the sweeter the onion, the shorter the shelf life. I think it has to do with the water content.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I agree about the sweeter the onion, the shorter the storage. Probably has to do with water and also sulfur. The more sulfur an onion has in it, usually the more "bite" it has.

[@scotthunt9529]

Hi Travis, might be getting time to construct a root cellar.

[@gregleach5833]

Some of my Chianti onions did start to flower . I didn’t think they were quite done growing but when I noticed a few of them pushing up flower stalks and buds I went ahead and got them all just to be safe .

[@jackiehester2648]

Wow! 🤩 that’s going to make one heckofa blooming onion 🧅!!! 💕🥰 👅 Thank you for all the information and tips! ♥️

[@JeanneKinland]

Congratulations! That's a beautiful harvest.

[@GrowWhereYouArePlanted]

Impressive onions!

[@catladynj]

I'm soooooo jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤😊

[@palmsandsand]

Onions look great!

[@joycemarie487]

I store mine in a cardboard box in and put them in my laundry room. We kept our til November of last year and ran out without any of our yellow varieties going bad.

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

What a great onion haul, I would be very happy with any of those. A freeze dryer would sure come in handy for preserving all those onions. I fed mine enough nitrogen to grow five acres of corn but none of them are as big as yours. The artic blast killed off quite a few of mine and I replaced them with younger plants and they won't have a chance of making a big bulb. If the good Lord keeps me able and He hasn't taken me home you can bet there will be lots of chicken manure in my raised beds for the onions.

[@dewainkoester1026]

Hat's off to you man!

[@TheSHOP411]

I find my hang up is the seed starting. I get pretty weak seedlings. I transplant them and get some good onions, but nothing close to those big ones. I will fet it right some day.

[@scottwhite4645]

Your category should be called “BFO’s” Would “intermediate day” varieties work? Trying to extend the season with more of a storage type onion.

[@jo-annjewett198]

Beautiful onions!❤

[@patriciaplummer1280]

Hey Travis, glad i found your KZbin. I live in nc how do you keep from your onions blooming?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Seems to be more of a variety thing IMO. Since we started growing the varieties we grow now, I haven't had many issues with blooming. But some of the older varieties we used to grow were bad about it.

[@LazyDogFarm]

What's the biggest onion you've ever grown? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 0:40 When Did We Plant These Onions? 1:00 When Are Onions Ready to Harvest? 2:53 How to Cure and Dry Onions 5:59 Comparing the Best Onion Varieties 10:53 Which Onions Store the Longest 14:00 What's Next for This Garden Plot?

[@tater357]

Glad I watched this video, because some of my onions are starting to go to seed. They haven't opened yet, so I might as well go ahead and get the onions pulled tomorrow if it don't rain. Funny thing that I've noticed, they are starting to form buds the same time as my potatoes and the same time as my first harvest of squash. Rose bush is all bloomed out also.

[@raytaylor582]

Great info in your videos will those kind of onions grow in upper Alabama

[@LazyDogFarm]

They would, but not sure you'd be able to overwinter them like we do unless you had a way to cover them when it gets below 20.

[@papawsplace]

I'm going to have to come up with a game plan if I'm going to have the slightest chance at this next year. 🤔🤔🤣

[@LazyDogFarm]

Bring it on! lol

[@papawsplace]

What Variety are we growing for the bragging rights, so I can plan ahead? I don't want to be late to the party. LOL

[@LazyDogFarm]

@@papawsplace You can grow whatever variety you'd like, but I'd highly recommend you grow DP Sweet.lol

[@papawsplace]

I'll be waiting for the challenge come seed starting time. LOL

[@TomBean-qf6zv]

Good crop of onions there Travis. The wife and I just pulled up ours last week and had a good bit pegging 2.5 lbs. each, chicken manure something else ain't it. Looks like your going to have a good haul of cabbage and broccoli as well. Y'all have a good day now.

[@williamcobb1408]

Great video

[@DeeSixHomestead]

I just love your channel, we are a little jealous that we don't have the option to pull giant onions to plant something else in our short season up here in Saskatchewan Canada. Thanks again!

[@trippnbilly7130]

Thanks to you....I'm making Taters!!! I followed your steps.. And my Onions are just now swelling up

[@mattpeacock5208]

Which ones are best for onion rings? Same question about onion soup!!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Any of them would be great for either!

[@dgc940]

video makes me hungry for a order of onion rings or a awsome blossom from chillis

[@harveyrousejr.2069]

Travis; I've been trying to locate some of the pelletized organic fertilizer like I see you using. I'm in Eastern (coastal) NC. I have Lowes, Home depot and a couple local farm and garden retailers. Any suggestions?

[@michellegreenspan2866]

Will the onion sweeten up as the cure? I just harvested some red onions and was going to pickle them but I’m wondering if I should wait until they’re cured

[@mutantryeff]

I just noticed that a couple of my 2nd year old shallots are going to bloom. Time to get them out.

[@baneverything5580]

They`ll make seeds.

[@sonnyamoran7383]

I'm in central Florida. How do you store your onions? And where? I didn't get a great harvest, but this was my first time growing. I'm expecting a much better harvest next year. Thanks for all the tips.

[@jeffsullivan3362]

Good information, nice onions. I'm in Michigan and your weatherman must be a lot better than mine. They can't forecast 24 hours in advance.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haha!

[@jarvismoore8320]

Just got my seeds from you! Im in 7b North Mississippi! Gonna grow them a 4x16 raised bed! Is it too late to start them in trays or do i just need to direct sow?

[@jarvismoore8320]

I got your email bud

[@mutantryeff]

I finally made my first gallons of iced tea for the year. My standard tea is no longer available, so I am using a Darjeeling/Ceylon loose leaf blend from Upton Tea. It isn't a good hot tea, but I've figured out how to make a really nice iced tea with it. Ordered a kilo bag of it.

[@Maria-ql3fc]

Be careful that iced tea is addictive, my family has been hooked on it for generations. There’s only several teas here in the south that my son (the major tea consumer in the house) really likes and it’s Tetley, Lipton and Red Diamond, all especially blended for iced tea. I lived in Europe for a couple years and trying to make a good iced tea out of their hot tea blends never worked so good so I gave up iced tea until I was back in the states. If you like hot tea the Europeans have the best (so they say)

[@markware4933]

Yeah, Upton tea is very high quality, but in Lazy Dog country, iced tea means sweet tea. Let the debate begin, at least until the Duke's mayo controversy comes back around.

[@Maria-ql3fc]

@@markware4933 yeah it does mean sweet tea, but some people like myself don’t like it to sweet. Just enough sugar to taste but not overwhelm the flavor of the tea.

[@Justme-sb8mn]

Those look awesome

[@lindamckeown2830]

I just have to say that every time you say you're going to put something under the barn I picture you putting it under the foundation of the barn. If I said I was going to put something under my porch I would be putting it under the floor of my porch. I guess that's because I don't have a barn but do have a porch. I'm still waiting on my onions to bulb up. I'm in 7B and planted in Nov. I'm getting a little worried.

[@justhappy2behurr]

Trav, when i tried to dry my onions in my raised beds in the sun, they seemed to get sunburned and turned mushy. the soil and weather was dry. what did I do wrong?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Not sure. I always have that happen to a couple, but usually not many.

[@lsuman38]

Are you in the Vidalia region of Georgia?

[@LazyDogFarm]

We're a few hours away from Vidalia.

[@jamesbuquoi2990]

Prause God and his blessed son Jesus for such a great channel!!

[@rogerspaulding6569]

Have you tried Tex 10-15? They have worked well for me in Mesa, Az.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I did grow that variety quite a few years ago. It did okay for us, but I like some of the hybrid varieties more.

[@rickthelian2215]

Amazing Onions Travis😊 How did they go in the Raised Beds?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Didn't plant any onions in the raised beds this year, but I do want to try that.

[@rickthelian2215]

@@LazyDogFarm yeah that would be good to compare but you had some real good results, really Happy 😆

[@americanrvnomads39]

Can you show how you store them?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Next Monday's video we'll show that.

[@melissakingery4393]

Travis the same goes for Shallots?? Mine are browning and starting to fall over?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I've never successfully grown shallots, but I believe the process should be similar.

[@rivercrockett343]

Here's my sad story...I sowed Candy onion seeds in December (zone 8a), planted 48 onions out in 4 short rows in a flowerbed on February 19th. Planted them sort of close so I could pluck green onions and still have some left to bulb up. They were looking mighty fine and good enough to start pulling some when, the day before Easter, I noticed all but about 10 left on the outside row were missing. I thought surely someone came along and took them for their Easter dinner. Then several days later, I went out to pick some of the ones left, and most of them were gone except for a couple of nice ones and a few puny ones. So I just pulled the remaining ones. Pulling them disturbs the soil, and the soil wasn't disturbed where the onions disappeared, just a little depression there, as if you lightly poked your finger into the soil. These were planted over a known mole run, but I thought moles were carnivores? Google says voles are herbivores, but I've never seen a vole. All I know is I won't plant onions in the ground any more, just in pots from now on. This was my first time to sow from seed, and I discovered that's the way to go. Anyway, your onion crop looks great, and I'm jealous!!!!!!

[@LazyDogFarm]

I've heard of voles, but never seen one. Not sure I've ever seen a mole in person either. I was 25 years old before I saw a chipmunk.

[@that9blife465]

Already had a couple bowls of leak and tator soup my man. Yummy stuff ! Your turn

[@episodefromthegarden]

Thanks for your videos, I’ve seen a few of them on onions. I grew some red onions, intermediate day- here in the Bay Area California. I planted them back in October. Most of them barely bulbed and are now starting to bolt. Any ideas what could be going on?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I'd plant short-day onions if I were going to overwinter them. Could be a variety thing as well.

[@episodefromthegarden]

@@LazyDogFarm thanks

[@simmonds6063]

I'd be curious if some of those split onions might would divide like potato onions🤔?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't think so. Those potato onions usually split into more than two. All of these just split into two pieces.

[@williefreeman6892]

Do you have to cut your onions when they start to get top heavy

[@LazyDogFarm]

Never. Let them grow.

[@shaunlloyd5724]

I cannot believe I have watermelon in the ground before you. I’m in Maryland, they have been in the ground since the beginning of April. Are trying to hide that giant butternut?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Not trying to hide it. lol We'll show you where we planted them on the next video.

[@Buckski00buckshot]

Chop in small pieces, put in gallon bags and freeze them.

[@davidlucas598]

Most of my onions bolted I guess very cold weather stressed them

[@carolynmoody9460]

❤❤❤🕊️

[@karengilmore362]

Pulled my onions and we got rain last night! 😩 what do I do now?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Just put them under a shelter so they can dry out.

[@waynespringer501]

How in the world did you grow those big onions WITHOUT a copper antenna? Danny and Wanda's Copper Antenna onions on today's video were the size of golf balls. I'm really surprised you haven't gotten a freeze dryer yet so you can store those onions (and most everything else you grow) almost indefinitely.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I've been offered a freeze dryer by a company, but I don't have anywhere to put one.

[@waynespringer501]

@@LazyDogFarm As someone who just freeze dried their entire pantry last winter, I can verify you will gain 50% "more room" once you freeze dry your canned items as 50% of all the canned items in your pantry is the water you are removing. Something to think about. Another aside is that when you vacuum seal your freeze dried mason jars, you can reuse your canning lids unlike after you pressure can saving you money every year.

[@thedomestead3546]

We grew a three pound mustache...how did we do it? Find out

[@jamesbuquoi2990]

I would love to work with you so that i can learn first hand!!!

[@rachzor]

Am sure he needs the help. I still wonder how he manages it all by himself with his wife and small kids.

[@markoliver-ww9ld]

​@@rachzor I would come work for free if he put a keg of beer in the field, he might get 3 hours outta me. 😂

[@ethanbrown5268]

Are you no longer affiliated with Hoss tools?

[@markoliver-ww9ld]

I like Hoss tools, recently I un-subbed from the Veggie Boys, the show sounds like a broken record.

[@LazyDogFarm]

No. I resigned from there over two years ago.

[@ethansimmons111]

Why not let a few go to seed and not buy each year?

[@LazyDogFarm]

We plant hybrids, so not possible.

[@charlottetrembley982]

When are you going to dig your taters? We really like your channel.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I'm going to try and wait until the plants die all the way back. They're still looking pretty nice and green now.

[@victorsimerson1095]

Hoss Jr whats up why did you stop show and start your own

[@LazyDogFarm]

Long story, but I resigned in early 2021 and started this channel shortly after.

[@ivahihopeful]

Do rats and raccoons eat onions?

[@baneverything5580]

Hogs will.

[@ivahihopeful]

@@baneverything5580 luckily, no wild hogs around here :)

[@baneverything5580]

@@ivahihopeful Goats ate everything in my garden one year. They even pulled up my strawberry plants and ate the roots. Pole beans got pulled up too and my peppers and tomatoes. But they left my green onions and mustard greens.

[@ShalomShalom-d5c]

13min mark, you havent told us how you grew them so big. Click bait title

[@sislertx]

Your always inspiration with REAL TIPS.... not CLICKBAIT from so so gardens...many big ones reminds me of those channels claiming to grow things in three days or rooting cuttings in a potatoe and of course the electro idiots and one u fell for...the alphafa scam.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I think the alfalfa pellets do work. I just haven't needed to do it much since we started using the chicken tractor. When we did apply the alfalfa pellets, a soil test a few months after showed that those plots were very high in nutrient content.

[@miltonwelch8619]

Good job! Thanks for the fertilizing info.