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Ughhh I sucked at onions for YEARS. I either did Ughhh I sucked at onions for YEARS. I either didn’t get the right kind for my area. Or I was growing them wrong. Or I was planting them wrong. Everything changed when I decided to do these things which started with growing them from seed instead of buying slips (aka starts). And then… First: in Texas 8b, we don’t start seeds until November and plant out in January for a June start to our harvest (AND I still have yellow Spanish onions still growing in August!!) Say what?!? Second: I did the seed snail method to start my onion seeds. I have linked that reel in this reel. Click that to watch how to do that (and when I get back to this step this upcoming season, I’ll film another video). I’m crediting that method for my onion success. Third: I gave my onions a hair cut to keep them in the 4-6” range until planting out. This forced them to focus on bulb and roots and not beautiful greens. Fourth: I always bottom watered. And I watched for algae hanging out at the bottom. Airflow at the bottom is also important to prevent the wrong things growing. Fifth: once I planted out, I added straw for mulch and fed once during the growing season some fish emulsion. And finally: once the bulbs started really forming, I spooned them (dug the dirt away from the bulb to really expose it to the sun) and BOOM biggggg onions bulbs. I cannot wait to repeat this again this season. What questions do you have about growing bulbing onions? P.S. If you want a garden that protects itself — without chemicals or constant guessing — comment SYSTEM and I’ll DM you the link.💚🌱💚 #gardener #growyourownfood #organicgardener #organicgardening #gardeningforbeginners
Okay real talk — I’ve been gardening since 2007 an Okay real talk — I’ve been gardening since 2007 and I bought Buckwheat last year specifically to try cover cropping. It sat there. All season. Because I was scared to mess it up. 😂 I LOVE to experiment. Ask anyone. And yet this one thing had me completely frozen. So if you’re sitting on a gardening dream right now thinking you need to know more, research more, wait until you have the perfect setup — I’m going to save you some time. You don’t. You just start. You’ll mess it up a bit. You’ll figure it out. And your garden will be better for it. (My soil certainly will be when I get back from Colorado and sow that Buckwheat. Finally. 😅) The gardeners who build the most resilient, thriving gardens aren’t the ones who studied the longest. They’re the ones who stopped waiting and just got their hands dirty. If you want a garden that protects itself — without chemicals or constant guessing — comment SYSTEM and I’ll DM you the link. 💚🌱💚 #gardener #growyourownfood #organicgardener #organicgardening #gardeningforbeginners
Forgot to share! 😱 And we are almost to the end o Forgot to share! 😱 And we are almost to the end of August. 😆 Well, now you know. And it’s probably not looking any better than when I filmed this since we’ve been stuck in a relentless heat bubble since I shimmied myself to Colorado for a few weeks of better weather. How’s your garden hanging in? Also - how is it that the weeds can thrive?? 😂😂😂 P.S. If you want a garden that protects itself — without chemicals or constant guessing — comment SYSTEM and I’ll DM you the link.💚🌱💚 #gardener #growyourownfood #organicgardener #organicgardening #gardeningforbeginners
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