Planting onions from small bulbs or "sets" is not the best way to grow large onions for storage. Plants grown from sets often begin blooming in mid-summer and stubbornly refuse to stop. Once that ...

Onions and members of the onion family are the workhorses of almost every culture of the world. They are easy to grow from seed, giving gardeners the opportunity to experiment with tasty varieties not ...

How is an onion like a tightwad’s wallet? He cries when either is opened. Speaking of onions, I grew up in a German household where potatoes, cabbage and onions were mealtime staples. No hotdish was ...

Bundles of onion transplants are making their way into garden centers and nurseries. Many folks gauge a successful gardening year by their onion harvest; starting onions from transplants gives ...

I have done this trimming back of leeks and onions for years, because I noticed that the practice helped to thicken the seedlings; however, other factors in producing thick, sturdy onion and leek ...

DENVER — It drives me nuts to see commercials where people pretending to garden pull plants out of their pots by the stems. This is wrong and can potentially damage the stems at the point where they ...

Farmers who follow guidelines in nursery bed establishment may save up on losses between 30 percent and 40 percent which normally result from poor seed germination. Failing to meet more than 95 ...

Transplanting of onion seedlings for early kharif season onion has begun in the the southern parts of the country, even as harvesting of rabi onion is currently going on in full swing across onion ...

And they did. The seeds germinated, and the little onion and shallot seedlings emerged from the darkness into the light about six days after I planted them. Every year I am amazed and delighted to see ...

How is an onion like a tightwad’s wallet? He cries when either is opened. Speaking of onions, I grew up in a German household where potatoes, cabbage and onions were mealtime staples. No hotdish was ...