today I want to show you how to grow your own
onion plants right in your backyard garden
to be able to grow your own onion plants in your backyard kind of gives you the
opportunity to have them available when you want them available and also to grow
the type plants with varieties that you want
now the ones I'm going to be planting today is called a sweet
harvest a sweet harvest is an a vidalia approved variety
that's right they have certain varieties that are approved
to be grown as Vidalia onions somewhere in the neighborhood around 30 of them
the two we sell is sweet harvest and savannah sweet both of those are
vidalia type approved varieties now I'm gonna grow
this in my backyard garden here and a four by four bed as you see right here
it really doesn't take much room to grow these these onion plants
and uh there's a couple different ways of doing it but the way I'm gonna do it
today is with a four by four raised bed the first thing I did about a week ago
was I incorporated this complete organic fertilizer into my soil because I like
to give my onions a good head start a jump start
coming out of the ground onion plants can burn
pretty easy and that's the reason I like to use this organic fertilizer
I incorporate it into the soil about a week before I'm ready to plant
that way it starts to break down and when those onion plants
need it it'll be available to the plant the tools I'm going to use is my single
time cultivator and that's pretty much it so I'm going
to plant these somewhere about six inches apart so what
I'll do is I'll come out here and I'll lay my rows off
may have to go over it a couple times onion seeds are real
small and you don't have to plant them very deep
you can plant them pretty thick because we're going to put them in a transplant
seed packet what I'm going to do is just cut the very corner off there that way I
can use my seed packet kind of
jiggle it a little bit shake it a little bit to get my seeds out
now each one of these seed packs is 250 seeds per pack
and I use two seed packs on this four by four bed so there's about 500 seeds
here I'm going to cover them up but I'm going
to cover them up real lightly what I'm going to do is I'm going to
take my single tine cutter bag just turn it sideways
just kind of rake it over there
now that I got them planted it's kind of best if you go back just kind of pack it
down you take your hand or that number 12 foot you got and do it
doesn't really matter some of the seeds are real shallow but that's okay
now raised beds are great for growing onion seeds because
they stay uh nice and clean the weeds stay out of them pretty much
you can put some good soil in there one of the problems with raised beds is they
dry out real quick and with these seeds we got
to keep them wet and I mean wet for a few days to get
them up take my wand and keep them warm now I'll do this
every morning and every afternoon until they come up
here then I may back off a little bit it's
going to take a lot of frequent shallow water
to get these onions up now onion plants are very easy to burn with fertilizer
that's the reason I like to use that complete
organic fertilizer to start them off with after they come up and get going
good I'll switch over and start using 20 20 20 as a foliar feed about every
seven to ten days to keep them coming well they can grow off and we'll
have them in plenty of time now these onions should be ready to pool
and to transplant in about eight to ten weeks now here in
zone 8 we like to plant our onions between the
1st to 15th of november so it should be perfect timing on that
so if you live in zone 8 you need to be getting those onions
planted now to have those onion plants ready 1st 15th
november when they need to be planted you need to make sure you plant the
right variety if you plant the right variety and you
plant you know in a nice raised bed like this right here you
almost guarantee good results now if you want to plant your onions
in trays then check out this video right here it's a great video showing
how you can grow my trays also