I went shopping yesterday for my seed potatoes and also picked up some onions.
Onions happen to be the thing that I've NEVER gotten to grow in my garden. I did some research on youtube in the off season and found a video that described 3 types of onion growing and the pros and cons. There's growing from seed, which you have to start around October for a harvest in July. I have never tried the seed, but might do that this fall and see how that works out for the 2021 season. There's also the sets, which I have tried 3 or maybe 4 times and never had success.
The sets are where you pick up TINY little onions that are apparently a year or more old and don't have roots attached. I saw some of those yesterday:
Those have never gotten big for me and produced large onions. At all.
The third way to grow onions are apparently getting the "onion bunches", which I found and got some yesterday. These are live plants that have roots still attached and have just been taken out of the ground and the dirt shaken off.
I got two varieties, a white and a red.
We shall see if I have luck this time. I'm cautiously optimistic.
I also picked up (my main objective) lots of potatoes. I only got 2 varieties, but I think I got enough to do a bed of each.
The dark red norland apparently have a quick turn around time, so I'll have to watch that and harvest appropriately. With the world situation, having potatoes that will grow and be harvestable in short order sounded like the way to go. It's possible I'll be able to harvest and then be able to reuse that bed space for a late summer planting of something else.
How are you doing on your garden preps for 2020?
See my other Gardening and Homesteading Posts
I do the Mittleider Method, see my Mittleider Gardening Posts
- Mittleider Gardening
- Mittleider Book
- Deer Fence
- Mittleider Trellis System
- Twine for the Trellis System
- Mittleider Watering System
- Benefits of the Raised Bed System
- In the Garden Greenhouse hoops
I also have tried the Square Foot Gardening Method
The Harbor Freight 6x8 Greenhouse
Various Techniques and Equipment
- Pressure Canning Green Beans
- Hand Pollinating Squash/Zucchini
- Roma Tomato harvest and Water Bath Canning
- Potato Harvest and Pressure Canning Potatoes
- Black Eyed Peas - Harvest and Storage
- Small Scale Irrigation System
Harvesting Posts/General Updates
- Garden Update - Indoor Seedling update - 2/29/2020
- Garden Update - Starting some seeds for the 2020 gardening season indoors - 2/17/2020
- Garden Update - Broccoli update - 2/12/20
- Garden Update - Broccoli status - 11/5/19
- Garden Update - Broccoli seems ok - 10/12/19
- Garden Update - Planting Broccoli maybe too late? - 10/11/19
- Garden Update - Garden Harvest - 5/17/18
- Garden Update - 5/6/18
- Garden Update - 4/22/18
- Garden Update - Mittlieder irrigation system - 4/2/18
- Garden Update - 3/10/18
- Garden Update - More potato planting, Agribon and in the garden greenhouse construction - 3/5/18
- Garden Update - Planting Potatoes - 2/25/18
- Garden Update - preparing for planting - 2/24/18
- Garden Update - Broccoli Harvest - 1/1/18
- Garden Update - Cabbage Harvest - 12/6/17
- Garden Update - Final Summer plants - 11/9/17
- Garden Update - 11/5/17
- Garden Update - 11/4/17
- Garden Update - 10/10/17
- Garden Harvest - 10/4/17
- Green Bean Harvest - 9/24/17
- Fall Garden Update - 9/23/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/23/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/20/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/18/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/17/17
- Garden Harvest and Food Donation - 6/15/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/16/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/7/17
- Tomato Progress - 5/31/17
- Garden Harvest - 5/30/17