Even though its nasty outside with sleet and freezing rain coating the trees and downing power lines (our power was off for about three hours tonight) I managed to plant three flats of onion seed and two flats of peppers today. Last year I waited too long to plant the onions and they never made it. I prefer to plant onions from seed because that way I know what variety they are. Most people plant onions from “sets”. By the time they get around to planting onions its way too late to plant from seed around here so they plant sets. I like planting varieties that will do well here and keep well. When you buy sets, you don’t usually know what they are. They are usually just labeled “yellow” or “white”. I planted two flats of Copra F1 hybrid onions from Johnny’s seeds and one flat of Gunnison F1 hybrids. Both are good winter keepers. Each flat contains about 150+ seeds. If all of the seeds grow into onions I’ll have enough onions to last all year.
Filed under: The Green Garden | Tagged: gardening, onions
