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I took an onion that was sprouting,that I had gotten from the grocery store,and planted it in a fabric planter and got about five medium onions from that one onion!! I was amazed and will do it again next year bigger!!! I will do like you though, and order mine! Thank you for sharing! Not a fail at all!! I wouldn't mind seeing the dehydration video. I have a dehydrator!!
Any onions grown in your own garden are worth it. Commercial onions are highly sprayed with pesticides.
A harvest is a harvest no matter how large or small. My onions are also small but like you I am learning. If you dehydrate them in a dehydrator, I would suggest you do it in a garage or other location because your whole house will smell like onions if you don't. Same with garlic. I buy 1 lb packages of dehydrated diced onion which saves a lot of time for the price. Hope the hot weather breaks soon for all of us!
NICE HAUL!!!!
I am inspired by your adventures in larger scale gardening. I look forward to the onion dehydrating video. Thanks for all you share.
Kaye, your onion harvest is definitely a great success. Even with a few setbacks. You definitely have a green thumb!
They look beautiful 🧅
My grandfather used to braid the leaves together and hang them to cure. I’ve only tried it with garlic, but it worked very well
Yiu have a nice little bunch🥰
I live about 45 minutes from Vidalia. I grew the yellow Grandex and they are wonderful! I would love to see you dehydrate yours because I was thinking of dehydrating mine!
Would love to see your onion dehydration process.
Your onions look great! The deer have found our garden and eaten all the sweet potato vines. We don’t have the land that you do, but I hope we can figure something out to keep the deer out. Id love to see how dehydrated onions turn out. I’ve read freshly ground onion powder is the best!
stay positive, girl. You did great!
It's a beautiful bounty…Kaye…keep it up!!!! ❤️
Nice onions. I got 4 pints of cherries canned today. Quite an accomplishment to get them pitted and canned. My back is out agsin!! Not moving fast, but I got it done. I felt good about that. Got some more e for pantry. I keep pushing on, try to ignore the pain but hard. Take care. Learned how to do onions. Thank you. God bless!!
Did you not plant any I'itoi onions this year? I had never heard of them until I watched one of your earlier videos. I'm trying them….loving them so far!
Yes….I would love to see you hydrate them!
I planted scallions from seed 18 months ago. But I left most of them in the ground. They're huge and they actually hold up my bird netting instead of stakes, plus the bees like the onion flowers. Eventually I will pull them up, but I don't imagine I could eat them at this point. It's been a bad year for pests of all kinds in my Southern California garden this year. Japanese eggplant, okra, and yellow wax beans are the only thing that made it OK.
We plant out onions in the fall in the South and harvest in Spring. I’m in NC zone 8. Your harvest was good considering everything u went through.
Hi Kaye, your onions are beautiful. I bought a hanging dehydrator (mesh with shelves inside) and hoping to harvest SOMETHING from my tiny garden to try it out 😀 I may have to buy vegies at the fruit market.
Hi Kaye, bag up your grass clippings and dump them along your rows of onions. Onions are heavy nitrogen feeders UNTIL they start bulbing. Then it is calcium and phospherous and magnesium. Do not remove any of the skins! Wait until ALL green is off of the leaves. Not one speck of green should be on the greens. It can take anywhere from 2 weeks to 4 weeks to cure onions. Small onions do not store well. Best to use them or freeze or freeze dry (which you mentioned) Have you thought about freezing your onions Kaye? I'm going to do that for the first time this year. It will be nice in the dead of winter to go get a bag of frozen cut up onions and fry with my burger or add to my food dishes. I love how you are not bragadocious and just show your successes. Loved this video. I am on my own with a huge garden and chickens, turkeys and meat birds. On 5 acres. So I know what you are saying about it is work. Think things through. I love it…..while I can still do it. But at 65 I wonder when will it be too much for me. I watch Helen Wyatt of Georgia and see what she does at 84!!!! She is an inspiration. She was putting up huge heavy chicken panels by herself. Interesting lady. God Bless.
The worms used to walk into puddles when I was a kid. They used to walk into ponds. They are not around like they used to be. Humanity has taken all the grass and organic material away from the soil too long.
hello kaye, oh its super good to see you, great job with those yum onions 🌰 kaye,,I used to have some from my big sis(sister) when she grew onions ans swap with my eggs,I would be so exited and plat braid them together sand hang them up.they kept for good long time, just look so beautiful 😍. but I had to eat them,,next season you could braid yours if you like to..you have done so well.and size not important, taste will be just yummy kaye..they are going to smell so good when you cook some..Well done.xx love and prayers for you 🙏, your mum and those lovely cats,from me and my girls (chickens )xx
your cushions are looking so comfortable kaye, I remember when you were waiting for them to arrive..see you soon,perfect picture of your basket of onions 🌰 😋
Those cured nicely! Really, hungry for roast beef and onions now 😃
Would love to see a video on onion dehydration
still a nice harvest. I killed all of my onion starts somehow so this year, Im planting from seed
I am a single and so buying onions to store, from the store, works best for me. Same for potatoes that are nightshade family and inflamatory for joints and muscles. Your haul is 🤩
You would probably need two or three garden beds worth of onions too have onions growing all year round!! I've probably said it before and I will say it again…I'm buggered if I can grow onions!! :-)!! Caramelised onions…mmmm!!
I could make a whole meal from one large baked onion and be content. Your onions look beautiful in that lovely basket. Some people are paying quite the expense for the education you've been getting this past year and a half, Kaye! Just in time too. We all can feel the bottom about to fall out.
IHi kay I plant near my water hose my husband use to buy bags of onions and I'd say why now I see more for less money and you can get them as big as you want them
Yes kay I would love to see you do those onions
Have not had good luck sewing seeds right outside. Will either buy starts or start them inside next time!! I got 3 teeny tiny onions last year..nothing this year but one green sprig. Yours look awesome!!
You not only got a harvest you learned from it. I definitely call that a success. Sometimes even if we do everything correctly, nature devastates it. I think they're beautiful!
Absolutely worth it. Any is better than none. And you get the benefit of learning as you go, and the exercise to boot. Keep on Kaye.
Wow, nice boost in subscribers, Kaye! Seems you hovered around the mid 60Ks for a long time, but now its 85K, very happy for you! 100K will be a great celebration!
personally Kaye I keep away from Sets! they can be tricky as you have experienced. Personally I start my onions from seeds yearly, you get way better selection in seeds!
I do 4 standard pots full and I put the seeds on top of the soil and use perlite on top. a good sprinkle of seed in each pot. you end up with about 60 plants in each pot.
I sow in November inside.
Then plant the seedlings which are stronger, greener and better starts than sets. PLant out in Feb -March – weather permitting and by June/July you get tons of onions.
I harvested mine yesterday – 210 onions in total. 🙂
Would love to see a dehydrating video Kaye.
I planted my Walla Walla and Candy onions on time and yours look no different than mine. Late didn't matter. You were successful! You dealt with wash-outs. I dealt with severe drought and having to water with tap water. I was concerned about watering with unfiltered tap water (PFAS in tap water) as our outdoor faucets are not filtered, but now there finding PFAS in rainwater anyway. That's a bummer, but you video wasn't! I love your 'can-do' attitude! Cheers!
Onions never rot when you hang them with a wire binding the leaves. Just make Knotts with a good thread spacing each onion should they would not touch each other. We make bundles of onions, tie them and keep them hanging. They get dry and drop at some point which has a wes life of over a year. Regards, Sagar
You did great 👍