Gardening

Emile

(30,797 posts) Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:05 AM Mar 2022

How do you grow large sweet onions?

I usually grow Walla Walla and Texas Sweet. I plant them in a raised row and spaced with enough room to grow large. I fertilize with 10 10 10 and cow manure. When the onion starts growing I pull back the soil around the bulb. The only thing you want in the soil are the roots and the bottom part of the bulb. Removing soil around the bulb allows the onion to grow unrestricted and larger. Walla Walla is a delicious sweet onion but I don't think they store as good as Texas Sweet.

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How do you grow large sweet onions? (Original Post) Emile Mar 2022 OP

Thank you. MLAA Mar 2022 #1

Same here. 2naSalit Mar 2022 #2

You are welcome. I had an old farmer down the road Emile Mar 2022 #4

Good to know! 2naSalit Mar 2022 #3

move to Maui lapfog_1 Mar 2022 #5

MLAA

(18,675 posts)

1. Thank you.

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:07 AM

Mar 2022

I’m a recent gardener and didn’t know to push back the dirt 🙂

2naSalit

(93,481 posts)

2. Same here.

Reply to MLAA (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:11 AM

Mar 2022

I had a crop of Walla Walla sweets last year but I had to move shortly after planting, landlady's son decided the place had to be sold immediately - long story, so I wasn't able to tend them as I should/would have.

But I didn't know about the dirt thing either.

Emile

(30,797 posts)

4. You are welcome. I had an old farmer down the road

Reply to MLAA (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:15 AM

Mar 2022

show me how to grow sweet onions around 40 years ago. His onions were so sweet you could eat them like an apple. I hope you have good luck, the advice from the old farmer has been good to me. I wished I would have asked him more questions about gardening before he died.

2naSalit

(93,481 posts)

3. Good to know!

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:11 AM

Mar 2022

lapfog_1

(30,233 posts)

5. move to Maui

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 09:18 AM

Mar 2022

near the slopes of Haleakala...

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