How Do You Plant Bulb Onions In The Vegetable Garden?
Bulb onions are easy to grow and are a great crop to plant in the vegetable garden. These are the common round onions we are familiar from the grocery store as opposed to non-bulb onions like scallions or leeks. Bulb onions are tasty and healthy foods that do not take up a lot of space, yet keep reasonably well after harvesting. Here are some tips on how to plant bulb onions in the vegetable garden. Onions are usually planted in the autumn or the spring depending on how cold your climate gets in the winter. They are commonly started by one of three methods: seed, seedlings or sets. Seeds do best in an area with a long summer so they have time to form good sized onion bulbs. If you live in an area where the onion fly is not a major problem, growing onions from seed is the most inexpensive way to plant them. Plant them in rows and thin them to about one plant for each 4″. If you buy young plants to transplant from pots or 6-packs, planting instructions are pretty much guided by the same
