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- From: "Marie Kamphefner" <kampy AT grm.net>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Onion Sets
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:50:46 -0600
I found the answer to my own question on the National Gardening
Association's web site: Here is how to grow your own sets:
Growing Your Own Sets
To save some money and have a little onion fun, you may want to grow
your own sets. Here's how to do it: In July in the North, or August
farther south, create a small section of your garden to plant a good
storage onion such as 'Yellow Globe'. Sow the seeds about 1/4 inch apart
in one-foot-wide rows. Give the plants some fertilizer and just let them
grow without thinning them at all.
Shortly before the first frost, bend the tops over. Wait a week or so
and then dig the small bulbs out of the ground. After curing them for a
few weeks, store them in mesh bags in a very cool (40° F) dry, dark
place. The following spring you'll have plenty of sets on hand.
Most southern gardeners don't bother with growing sets because they have
a pretty long season and don't always need the head start that sets
give. If you like to experiment, here is one method that works pretty
well in the South; select a short-day onion seed variety that's a good
keeper and in early March sow it thickly in a wide row and leave the
onions to grow. As they'll be very crowded, the bulbs won't get
oversized. Harvest the bulbs when the tops wither from the hot summer
sun. Dry them in the sun for a day or so and store them in mesh bags in
a very cool, dry place. In the fall you can set them out in the garden
again. They'll put on a little root growth before it gets cold and when
the weather warms up in the spring, they'll pop back to life giving you
very early onions. Of course in the deep South, where the winters are
quite often mild, you can plant sets in the fall and harvest onions
throughout the winter.
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[Market-farming] Onion Sets,
Marie Kamphefner, 03/20/2005
- RE: [Market-farming] Onion Sets, Marie Kamphefner, 03/21/2005
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[Market-farming] RE: Garlic Renaming,
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[Market-farming] Onion Sets,
Marie Kamphefner, 03/20/2005
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Joe Kames, 03/20/2005
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