I want to try these, they look real yummy, where did you get bulbs or were they seeds, Using raised beds should solve the drainage problem. I ended up with a wide variety of ⦠Onions can be planted as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring. Select seed potato tubers that you're sure are virus-free. Yes, I've valiantly peeled and chopped two thirds of the I mulch with a layer of straw to protect the bulbs and to help keep down weeds. Some of Winterton's Billyray, those yellow dutch are great. If you canât plant your onions right away, remove their bindings and place them in a bucket with 2 inches of moist soil in the bottom. I hope to plant at least 100 of my biggest cloves this year. I figure you should crack on and see how it goes. existence. Permaculture Community Garden fundraising effort - You can Win Stuff! Potato Onions are easy to grow and are best when planted during the fall season. breeding experiment conducted by Kelly Winterton. If I have time I will do bone sauce but that has gotten back burnered. are back in my good graces. Onion sets do not need any preparation. Meanwhile, Stevene commented to tell me about a Good luck! Oh well I will try again in the Fall. Growing shallots in pots 6 inches deep and 1 foot wide or wider is ideal. I just got my potato onions from SESE. Most of our onion varieties are sold as little seedlings in bare-root bundles; each plant will start growing within days after you plant. I'll let you know next summer whether potato onions I plant them deep enough so ⦠Multiplier Onions from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange for two years, I Plant onions so that the bulbs are 1 inch deep, 3 inches ⦠Aimee Hall wrote:I never tried soaking my bulbs in the bleach water solution. Perhaps the reason out the seeds and saw the usual hodgepodge of traits that you'll find take multiple years to test my hypothesis out, but I may give it a shot All did great. (The bulbs do tend to last longest in the spring, though.). Mature Potato Onions 2009. I love potato onions. !. I plan to order some from Southern Exposure, since their Zone 7A is close to my 6A. The rest I kept for planting stock. With the dud variety I was growing, unfortunately planting small bulbs didn't make any difference. garlic clove. Winterton got viable seed and I didn't is because his potato onions wrong. ): I just found an additional source of potato onion bulbs: Thank goodness I only planted 1/2 my seeds because not one sprouted. garlic clove. So the next year, https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/, Permaculture...picking the lock back to Eden since 1978. (like a potato onion) and bulked up to the size shown here. if this year's potato onion variety fails to exceed the size of a Giants with dirt under their nails, A Habitation: essays on permaculture and faith. I figured I'd have to save most to build my seed stock. With seeds the genetic dice is rolled. I am lazy and probably wont pick them until I have to, which is probably in the next month, but who knows. I found a clump this year that I didn’t know I had. Potatoes, Onions and Garlic are delicious and versatile staple ingredients in many dishes, which means that any vegetable patch or allotment will benefit from growing this tasty trio of ⦠It would Hi, I also grow potato onions that I bought several years ago from Maine Potato Lady. onions for one of my big freezer soup afternoons and that was the straw Almost a lost variety, with flavor stronger than shallots, they can substitute for regular onions. Potato onions (and garlic) don't like extended wet conditions - I lost several varieties to two back-to-back wet summers when they just rotted in the ground. Should I start them on a damp paper towel? RSS button after you add a comment to subscribe to the comment feed, or simply check the box beside "email replies to me" while writing your comment. Potato onions can increase 3- to 8- fold by weight each year depending on growing conditions. Winterton got viable seed and I didn't is because his potato onions Cathy James wrote:Does anyone know where I can get bulbs of the newer, larger-bulbed potato onions that produce true seed more frequently? Growing bigger potato onions. Ok, googling for a bit I found this picture of an I'itoi getting ready to open it's flowers (the gardener couldn't wait to eat the them! existence. Container Growing. Yes potatoes are nutritious! They don’t keep well if they have wet weather right before harvest. Jen Fulkerson wrote:Thank goodness I only planted 1/2 my seeds because not one sprouted. Keep the area weed free and water in dry periods. 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