Well, it’s clear to me that I came way too late to the onion growing season.
I simply don’t have the space or the light needed to start a lot of my vegetables indoors so I plant seeds outside on May 15. Unfortunately onions whether you’re planting from seeds, sets or plants they need to be in the ground early…very early. Turns out onions can survive down to 20º so they really can be planted earlier than most veggies.
As I’ve continued my research it’s also becoming clear that harvesting sets for next season doesn’t really make any sense, but harvesting seeds might. Seems that sets don’t keep well or for that long so I’d probably be wasting a whole lot of effort. Easier just to harvest the seeds and start early next year.
We are now past mid May heading for the first of June. The only real option at this point is to plant green or bunching onions. I already have some of those blooming in my flower garden. Though they smell and look great, they have little flavor (because of the blooms???).
So I’m going for the green bunching onions this year.
