this week on digging deeper we're talking about onions the dirty crop
before we go there i want to let you know that i'm giving right now a free workshop
on how to troubleshoot mid-season problems on the farm what can you do about it when you're already
in the big poo poo that happens every year to every grower all the time but there's there's
things that you can do about it it's a three-part workshop the first thing that we'll look into
is how to troubleshoot energy how to have more energy how to deal with stress anxiety
how to cope with the overload of work what are the strategies that you can do about that i have a few
tips and advice to give you there we'll also be talking about weed prevention and weed control
what can you do about weeds when you've lost the control of them and we'll look at certain crops
crop problems that are very common to most farms so check it out all the information is on the link
below and let's just jump with digging deeper so onions onions is definitely one crop that is
hard to keep clean in the fields and the reason is really simple
onions contrary to a lot of other crops won't form a canopy when they're at maturity like most of the
vegetables that we grow in the market garden using the bio-intensive systems and principles
you know they're really tight with one another and at one point usually most crops around you
know three-quarter of their growth the leaves of the crops touch one another and then it creates a
canopy that shades out the weed but onions it just doesn't happen and so that's your pretty typical
situation where you have the weeds coming in and like in any cases where you're trying to
deal with the weeds the trick is to use the right hoe at the right time
the right time is usually really early on before weeds become a problem so this would be the latest
that you want to do it and then just come coming with a hoe you know that's going to
be enough to do the job this is a this is one of my favorite hoe it's a growers and coast
wire weeder and it's open at the end so that it can it can let the plant go but you can really
you can really push it and so that's one strategy flame weeding is another strategy
that we do at a different stage later on with the onions we can gum we can come with a torch
and really give give it to them this needs to be done exactly at one specific moment
for the onions you can't do that at any any given time but that's another strategy and
one of the best one that we use and rely a lot on is landscape fabric landscape fabric with onions
really does the trick and it's a lot of work to set those landscape fabric out to burn the
holes and to make it all work out once you've established your onions in this kind of layout
man you're on your way to success and it saves you a lot of time
so this is it for this week onions they're hard to
clean but it's important actually keeping the whole garden clean is a big part of our job and
if you want to learn more about it i'm actually giving a free workshop now about how to handle
blocks and fields that are overtaken with weeds so check it out all the information
is on the link below besides that i hope you guys are doing well i hope that the weeds are
not taking over your farm and i hope you're doing okay i am i'll see you next week jm out
you