Planting Onion, Shallot, and Garlic Sets - Dave's Garden
Oct 16, 2017 · However, if you’re planting in zone 4 or lower, you may want to wait until the spring to plant your sets, or at least until the ground thaws enough to work the soil. Shallots can handle some frost, but extreme freezing temperatures can negatively impact their growth. As with onions and garlic, shallots prefer well-drained soil.
Happy Together, A Guide to Companion Planting - Dave's Garden
Apr 21, 2011 · Leeks improve onion growth and repel carrot flies; Chamomile improves the flavor of onions and enriches the soil with calcium, potassium and sulfur; Beets improve production of onions. PEAS: Carrots, Cucumbers, Corn, Turnips, Radishes, Beans, Potatoes, Aromatic Herbs: Garlic, Onions, Leeks, Shallots
Egyptian Walking Onions - Dave's Garden
May 19, 2009 · Growing Walking Onions . Growing walking onions is not difficult like some other vegetables. You can start a new plant from the bulblet sets or from the basal onions. Plant in fertile soil just as you would plant any other small onion, about ½ to 1 inch below the surface.
Companion Planting with Squash - Dave's Garden
May 25, 2015 · The Native Americans had a practice of planting either squash or cucumbers with corn and either peas or beans in a circle. With the corn planted first in the middle, it gave support to the peas or beans that were planted around them while the squash or cucumbers planted on the outside gave a shade that prevented most weeds from growing and ...
Scallions from sets or seeds - Dave's Garden
Mar 16, 2009 · Begin planting sets anytime in the month before your final spring frost. Onions like an organic soil, good fertility and adequate steady moisture. Press the onion sets an inch or so into the soil with the pointier end towards the sky but buried. I'll venture to say that almost any garden can provide a suitable spot for green onions.
Unusual Pregnant Onion: Ornithogalum longibracteatum - Dave's …
May 8, 2014 · It grew from one slim leaf to several long, arching, lily-like leaves. The tiny bulb swelled from a pea to a walnut, and without help from any other onions, became pregnant. Pregnant onions start to reproduce at a somewhat tender age. Baby onions develop right on the sides of the mother plant's bulb, near or above the soil level.
Explaining Vegetable Families: Alliums (Onions, Garlic, and More)
Feb 13, 2013 · For a major crop of onions, a gardener must consider planting location, climate, and each onion variety's "day length." For example, a table for choosing cutivars of onion in North Carolina shows that onions of various "day lengths" can be grown there, but each must be planted at a particular time of year to make a good crop.
Beginner Gardening:planting onion seed - Dave's Garden
Feb 1, 2009 · I am planting onions from seed first time this year also, got some Walla Walla that I winter sowed, just barely beginning to sprout! I'll watch this thread to see what kind of advice and experienced tips we get, Whitewidower!
Texas Gardening:Taters & Onions
Dec 27, 2009 · It's getting close to planting season (hooray!), so I'd like some input from those of you fellow Texans that have had success growing onions (from plants) and taters. What varieties do you recommend? I know I'm going to get some 1015 onions, but would like advise on other varieties. What about potatoes? What kind do best here?
Onions and Garlic- do they come back? - Dave's Garden
Mar 15, 2007 · The garlic bulb consists of cloves that each grow a new plant the following Spring. You could carefully divide these and plant them several inches apart. If you do this now, you will have a nice round garlic bulb for each plant. If you leave them to grow in a clump, each bulb will be smaller and misshapen.