[Market-farming] transplanting weedy onions

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Mon Jul 21 10:22:42 EDT 2008


On Jul 20, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Beth Spaugh wrote:

> It has turned rainy, and I have onions that have grassy weeds in them.
> Having spent two days trying to hand pull weeds, I am thinking it 
> would be
> simpler to dig up the onions and transplant them to a clean area. 
> Anyone
> transplanted onions this large/late?

I haven't tried it, but my guess is that if you move them now the tops 
will go down and they will mature the bulb at whatever size it is now. 
This guess is based on having weeded onions too late and having had 
them respond in that fashion, I think because their roots had been 
disturbed too much when they were too close to maturity. Now the onions 
are at or near the top of the weeding list in May and June; after late 
June, I just cultivate between the rows as necessary and don't do any 
more weeding in the rows. If they were big enough and free of weeds in 
late June they seem to produce a decent crop despite some weed growth 
in the rows after that.

You could try moving some of them and let us know what happens . . .

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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