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44 Comments
Thanks for the advice we did prune our onions but now will go get some fertilized
Love the video, thank you for sharing! What do you think of using rice hulls as a replacement for perlite in potting soil?
Another perfectly timed reminder, Luke! Thanks!
Luke, I'm assuming the pearl onions would still be treated as you would the big onions, even though it is past the solstice? Thanks for the heads up on treating onions like greens instead of roots. No wonder mine have never done well 😂.
Great informative video Luke! Saving it for the future.
So if I grew from sets this year and never trimmed and they are already folded over on a few of them, the onion is ready to harvest? No more growth from that one? Good tips once again!! Thanks, Luke!
What few onions I have, flopped over a long time ago, and they weren’t even that big. 😢 I think I have 2 that are worthy of cutting down, but the bulb ones were doing better than the starts. I’d die as a homesteader if my life depended on it. The bugs, raccoons, squirrels and deer would live long and prosper with my garden! The more I try, the harder it gets.
Everytime I trim mine they stop growing. Idk what I'm doing wrong. Am I doing it at the wrong time? Can I cut them or should I only pinch them off.
I love your videos! So helpful! I was able to transplant onion seedlings into my garden for the first time ever this year, and they're off!
The only question is to how to stimulate onions growth – mine were transplanted in May into compost/sand soil, organic nitrogen rich fertilizer, foliage feed with nitrogen – and they are still a couple of tiny spears of 1 mm wide, 2-3 inches long, they just sit in the soil doing nothing all these months. Everything else grows like crazy in our tempered wet conditions of central PA😏
I do this
This video was posted on July 3rd. We're past the summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere. Were these tips to be performed say in May? Would be helpful if you did clarify. Also, on a previous video, I think from last year, you did talk about pruning the leaves to keep them from bending so they keep growing, can this also be done now, 2 weeks after the solstice? Thanks.
Do these tips apply to shallots and leeks?
Do you pinch off or can you just cut them all down? Thanks Luc ❤
I guess I'll be pruning some onions today!
Great information! Thank you for explaining it logically!
Well mine started out well and then they lay down at about 3 inches after hardening off on the front porch and died. 😞 Would pruning at 3 inches have saved them? This hot and humid weather is really making me discouraged. I've lost alot of seedlings.
I’ve always struggled growing onions.. I had no idea that if I gave them a haircut, they were produce better than pumping them full of fertilizer! Of course I will still give them bloodmeal, but not the miracle grow that I used to give them still never getting awesome onions. Thank you so much for this video.
One of my favorite parts about growing onions is having the tops to cut off and use as the onions grow underneath. I can't help myself but cut some of those greens a couple times a week to put in my rice and salads 😅💯
I do the same with the garlic greens too 😅😊
I have to do this today, thank you for your help and it’s great timing! Much appreciated
Always pruned my onions even during the seedling growth! 🇨🇦🙋🏼♀️By the way,,,how do you get such gorgeous cabbage…do you have the cabbage moth there? I covered mine as soon as I put them out and still had the cabbage worm!😡
This must be an older video. Those onions are tiny for being after the solstice. Most of my onions are 3" diameter and I have not pruned them. Now all the leaves are supporting each other so they dont fall over.
Does the pruning of onions also apply to shallots and leeks
Thanks Luke. Now long day makes more sense. Never much success with onions. This year tried again. Started with 2 yr old MIG seed eventhough I heard to use fresh seed evey year. Germination was great! Just starting to see bulbs. Time to pile on the nitrogen. THIS IS THE YEAR!
Thank you for the tip, just topped my onions, and picked a couple
So helpful! Just wish I had learned a couple months ago lol.
Perfect timing Luck. Was just out looking at my onions, and seeing that they are getting pretty tall. So, out to trim them back later today. Thanks again.
Well, thank you! Not only did I learn the proper way to take care of onions, I also learned something about cabbage. I actually went out and pruned all my onions right in the middle of the video and came back in to finish LOL
I’m more confused than ever. We put our onions in the fall so maybe that’s why I’m confused? I don’t know when the sun gets lower or when days get shorter or longer for them to store nutrients as you mentioned. My onions are not in the ground in the summer.
I’ve watched this 4x. Maybe I’m just slow.
Last fall/spring was my first time growing onions and they basically failed. I don’t think some got enough sun through the winter and I didn’t fertilize. Some grew a small bulb and some did not.
Buying onion slips or onions sets saves you getting in the 1st year pre-growth. It's the pre-growth from seed is what's problematic to get established first.
Okay , I am onboard and will dry the leaves for onion powder
I'm going to try again
When I grow from sets over half of them bolt
I knew about trimming when just sprouting, and then no longer pruning. I take it the reverse order works just as well and are mutually exclusive, or I'll look that up in case I'm wrong. I'll be trimming tomorrow regardless. 🙂
awesome thank you for the tips God bless
So are we too late already since the days are getting shorter now?
That's confusing. Summer solstice was two weeks ago. So this is a video for 2025? No pruning and fertilizing in 2024 any more?
Luke – How do you keep your raised beds out in front of the business from being vandalized?
All my onions died. The seeds started but after transplant they died, and some died shortly after sprouting. Will try again next year
I'm completely confused now! 😂 I always thought that onions began bulbing when the days started getting longer, not shorter. Feel kinda dumb now.
I actually did this to my onions today :). SO glad I did this!
Great video as always… but this would have been waaayyyy more helpful BEFORE the solstice.
Great video! I will trim my onions tomorrow.
Should I be pruning my garlic too?