Posts Tagged ‘august’

Onions!

It’s getting to be that time of year, to transplant onions.  I am going to do it during the later part of October here (zone 8).  I have already started thousands of the little guys in flats (although germination was erratic due to high temps).  I started the first flats around the 15th of August, and plan to give them a couple of months to grow out before transplanting.  The rule is, transplant before they’re the diameter of a pencil or larger.  These transplants will mature to be huge onions come may/june.

This year I seeded onions (and leeks) in the greenhouse in january and transplanted them in late March.  they matured by August.  Although they weren’t really big, like over-wintered onions, they have been really nice.

I am probably going to buy some transplants from Peaceful Valley to Plant out come end of October (I’ll have some gaps to fill in, I can already tell).

Andrew