40: How to Grow Onions Successfully

Though easy to plant, it's not always a sure bet that you'll get huge onion bulbs each season. In fact, onions can be a bit finicky.

In this episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast, I go over the "long and short" (pun intended -- you'll understand after you listen to the episode) of growing onions. I talk about:

• which onions you need to grow for your latitude
• when to plant
• when NOT to grow from seed
• what triggers bulb growth
• what causes bolting (when an onion sets seed instead of producing a bulb)
• what to do if your onion plant does bolt

Show notes at http://journeywithjill.net/2018/02/grow-onions-successfully/