General Onions
Type: Annuals, once the onion is harvested it is gone. There are three perennials you might want to consider: Egyptian onions, Potato onions, and shallots.
Description: Yellow or white, makes you cry, sweet
When to plant: Check seed packet
Level of difficulty: 5
How to plant: There are many onion plant varieties, so most of the directions you need must come from your seed packet. Long day onion varieties grow best in the Northern States, short day varieties grow best in the Southern States.
Tips/Facts/Uses:
Description: Yellow or white, makes you cry, sweet
When to plant: Check seed packet
Level of difficulty: 5
How to plant: There are many onion plant varieties, so most of the directions you need must come from your seed packet. Long day onion varieties grow best in the Northern States, short day varieties grow best in the Southern States.
- Fill up a medium pot with potting soil and sow your onions indoors ½ inches deep 6-8 weeks before the last frost of the season.
- Keep soil moist.
- Place onions in a spot that gets 6-8 hours of sunlight a day. Check your seed packet to make sure your variety doesn’t/does need partial shade. Germinating seeds need cooler temperatures where as bulbs need hotter temperatures to form so it is suggested to leave the container outside once seeds germinate.
- Refer the rest to your seed packet.
- Once your onions have yellow tops and fall over, bend the tops downwards. Once the tops turn brown pull off each bulb and lay them out to dry. Handle gently, bruising them can lead to rotting.
Tips/Facts/Uses:
- Make onion powder and dry onion flakes.
- Cut up onions and freeze them for later.