Re: Vegaholics anonymous & onions


Stan, I do best with onion plants. (not sets) Buy them at the local feed
store and set them out and stand back. They come held together with a
rubber band. You can buy different varietys and believe me it is worth the
small extra pennies.  (hope this doesn't insult your cheaper side)  I did
not plant onions this year as I am saving room for other vegetables. They
would have been planted in November here in California. 
BYW, sets absolutely do not work for me. They just sit there and take up room.
L  




At 08:34 PM 1/15/99 +0000, you wrote:
>  I have never tried growing onions from seed
>> before, but
>> I want to try this spring.  They are so much cheaper than sets, and there
>> looks to
>> be a wider variety available.  I have at least 120 frost free days each
>> summer.
>>      My main question is, how many days before the last expected frost
>> can I
>> put onion seeds in the ground, if any?  
>>     
>>      Stan         the cheap and lazy gardener 
>>      Colorado, Zone 5? 5200ft.  (That's 5200 feet above sea level, I am
>> not a millipede)
>>      
>Stan, onions need a long season.I have been growing onions from seed for
>several years. This year I started them off in pots, 3 seeds to a pot,
>no thinning, no pricking out. Owing to atrocious weather they had to
>stay in those pots so I fed them and they grew quite nicely, they went
>out at the end of June, got an extra feed of nitrate of soda and were
>left alone. They were by far my best crop yet. They beat the onion sets
>easily. It's good to hear from you again. Allan, 
>
>-- 
>
>Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
>
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