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Re: Onion Sets

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> From: "Steve Johnson" <sjohnson@metronet.com>
> 
> > I'm hoping there's still time to try onions from onion sets this year 
> > I'm in north Texas with plans to plant from sets in the next 10 days. 
> > 
> > My questions are:
> > 
> > 1. How long from the time these go in the ground till harvest?
> 
> For green onions 3-4 weeks,
> for large onions check the seed packet
>  
> > 2. Based on the answer to 1, should I keep squares open so I can 
> > stagger planting (and stagger the harvest)? 
> 
> Your choice, but I would suggest plant now, and just stagger
> the harvest by eating the onions at multiple places along their
> growth cycle.
> 
> I planted a few hundred sets 2 weeks ago and some are allready
> tall enough (though a bit short) to go in salads.  I plan to just
> keep thinning/eating them till I end up with 9 or so large onions
> to the square foot.
> 
> Ron Souliere

I planted Vidalia Onion sets last year that just sat.  They 
overwintered, and now they are doing great (of course with onions 
being biennial they are trying to set flowers now).  The red onion 
sets I put in this year (in a different garden) are doing great.  So I 
don't know if it was the Vidalia or the garden that was the problem.  
Also (although I don't quite understand it) there are long and short 
day onions.  The long day onions are only supposed to be planted 
north of some imaginary line across the US that gets so many hours 
of summer sun a day, and the short day onions are supposed to be 
planted below that line.  I would bet that Texas is short day onion 
territory.

Good Luck, and keep the onions well drained,
-Ron M.
-Ron
menoldre@va.prestige.net


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