grow_my_own
Deeply Rooted
Maybe it's the soil where I was living until last year, but I've always done onions from seed. Put seeds in ground. Water. Wait. Eat onions. It really was not hard.... not even kinda.
I have never tried, but have read they are difficult, I'm not taking any chances. I did however purchase seed packets from fedco and will try my hand at them. I will order plants for a back up. If they all end up growing they won't go to waste. My sons love homemade french onion soup. I use LOTS of onions in a year.grow_my_own said:Maybe it's the soil where I was living until last year, but I've always done onions from seed. Put seeds in ground. Water. Wait. Eat onions. It really was not hard.... not even kinda.
I know Im late on this post but at Burlin Seeds you can get onion plants at,r4eboxer said:Wow, I just ordered my onion plants from dixondale farms and I have to say that was the easiest ordering process I have ever had with ANY seed company. They didn't even charge me shipping and I got 15 dozen plants for under 27.00. Yippee!!
I had the same experience as you - placing the order was very easy and I received my order very quickly. Also, when the plants showed up, I found that I received WAY more than 60 plants per "bunch."r4eboxer said:Wow, I just ordered my onion plants from dixondale farms and I have to say that was the easiest ordering process I have ever had with ANY seed company. They didn't even charge me shipping and I got 15 dozen plants for under 27.00. Yippee!!
They are a great company, I plan to use them more often. I have to say that my order for seeds from Fedco was a day long affair. But dixondale farms was a breeze! I do like fedco too, the catalog gives a lot of great information, but the ordering process needs some tweeking.Waylon05 said:I had the same experience as you - placing the order was very easy and I received my order very quickly. Also, when the plants showed up, I found that I received WAY more than 60 plants per "bunch."r4eboxer said:Wow, I just ordered my onion plants from dixondale farms and I have to say that was the easiest ordering process I have ever had with ANY seed company. They didn't even charge me shipping and I got 15 dozen plants for under 27.00. Yippee!!
Wow! I can't believe how many different varieties of onions there are! Thanks for sharing this.Chickie'sMomaInNH said:here's something i found that might be of interest on different onion varieties and their background of where/when they were produced.
http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/onional.html for the A-L cultivarshttp://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/onionmz.html for the M-Z cultivars