Well thanks for taking a shot at it Robert. Computers were horrid for me in college (always a missed comma or period on those darn punch cards with a two day turnover - yes I'm old.) Somehow things clicked in grad school and I loved them and worked as a Cobol/Fortran programmer in a suburb of Boston until I got married too soon eons ago.

Anyway .. I'm a bit confused with the fertilizer. Onions are heavy feeders and side dressing is recommended. My onions were tiny last year, I didn't fertilize, and I don't want to make that mistake again. If the leaves (which are chipped) are still decomposing I'll be at a deficit. Hopefully someone who has used leaves will chime in.

Nothing more aggravating than a broken keyboard, always at the worst time too. Two dollars for a bunch from Dixondale is a steal. I'd go that route any day! I think it cost me more in lights!!!

- Lisa

Memory Taking A Break
 

You know, they say that the memory is the first thing to go. I was talking to my wife about our Easter meal. I'm going to make pea salad, and I was thinking most onions sold this time of year are really strong. I don't want to make onion salad. So I say, "You could pick up a bunch of green onions."

Then I remembered, I have hundreds of green onions growing out in 7 different places in and around the garden - between tomato plants - coming up volunteer. At least I remembered...eventually. :lol:

I'm at the stage I dont want to kill and eat them.:(

Worth

I know what you mean Worth. The ones in the first picture are about to become fully shaded all the time. There's a tall elm tree about 5 feet away from them. That elm puts on leaves a full month after all the other elm trees here do. Yet the leaves look the same once they've grown out.

It looks like I have a chance at some Texas 1015Y onion seeds. There's at least 7 plants with seed heads. See all those oak leaves? I have no idea where they came from? We had already raked and mowed oak leaves from the yard and this onion bed. After the storms - you find all kinds of odd stuff.

A lot of my onions are putting up flower stalks as well, even some of the I'itoi are doing it. Must be the planets.

All of my onion plants are flat on the ground now after the pounding rain we had.
As far as blooms only the 3 so far the rest are getting fat.
One onion in a container split one of its skins.:lol:
Worth

Worth, My onions are flat on the ground too but when we get some sunshine most of them hopefully will partially stand back up.

Chllipeppa, about the planets...mars and Saturn are in Scorpio right now so you may be right.
Don't know if anyone gets up early round here :?:but at about 5 in the a.m. you can see it in the southern sky.

And Mars has just gone retrograde, lol. :roll: Good for me, stays in my 5th house longer. :lol:

Green Onions Texas Style :lol:

These came from the last picture on post 32. They are onions from ones that went to seed last year and started growing in clumps. They won't get any bigger because when I relocated them - I didn't separate them. I grew them this way hoping to get more seeds and to use them in a Cajun dish that I like (It doesn't have a name) I'll post the results in Worth's Cheap Eaten thread.

Wow, beautiful!

Mmmm, they look delicious!! :yes:

The heavy down pour we had spelled doom for most of my onions, it broke the tops so they stopped bulbing.
Oh well I still have onions and know what to do next year.

Worth

Thank you everyone.

Worth, "Oh well I still have onions and know what to do next year." That is exactly how I garden and learn in general.

Just started my first harvest of I'itoi onion today. They were quite yummy sweet when green this spring (a bit pungent in a good way in the fall), and so I get to find out what they are like when cured. They fell over just like regular onions. Which is good for me cuz I'm still learning this onion business. :yes:

[B]January 15th,[/B] Well, that tray was empty for a couple hours. It now has onion seeds waiting to pop up again. :lol:

[B]Today,[/B] It looks like we'll be getting Pearl onions from this experiment. I'm going to do it again next January. We really like pearl onions.

All of your onions are still standing up I noticed this from one of your other pictures.

I made a mistake reading that stupid A&M web site and fertilizer.
I stopped putting out nitrogen when I should have been pouring on the coals.
This beds are so full of tree roots it is hard to feed everything.

Worth

Worth, I agree, the A&M site needs [B]a lot[/B] of corrections.

I do have some onions in a bed that I am currently weeding. They are the onions I wrote about getting from Rio Vista. I'm thinking these onions have stopped growing, but like to get your opinion.

Probably so But I would keep an eye on them.
The tops will soon die and you can pull them.
Or they will come back to life in the fall for green onions in the winter.
Then next spring they will go to seed.

Worth

When to Harvest Seeds
 

Last year was my first year to grow from seed. They were ones I bought. Our onions grown in 2015 went to seed during a rainy windy week in late May - which resulted in having a gazillion volunteer onions this year.

So, this year, I want to get the seeds before they do a repeat of last year. Below are pictures of Texas 1015 Y onion seed heads. To me, it looks about time to cut them for seed harvest. What do you think?

Not even close, you need to let the flowers dry up.
You will then see mature onion seeds.
Worth

Thanks Worth, I'll do that.

I got this advice from High Mowing Seeds:

"..[FONT=Arial][I]Harvest seed heads when 1/2 of the pods are open and showing black seeds. Allow to dry and seeds will be easily shaken out. Use 1/8" screen to help with cleaning. Onion seeds will remain viable for 1-3 years[/I]."

Seems like all the alliums are veeeeery slooooooow to set seeds. Months here from flower to seed in the fall.:shock: Even the spring flowering bunching onions took a goodly while. Bet they're faster in Texas, of course! ;)8-)
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[QUOTE=bower;564625]I got this advice from High Mowing Seeds:

"..[FONT=Arial][I]Harvest seed heads when 1/2 of the pods are open and showing black seeds. Allow to dry and seeds will be easily shaken out. Use 1/8" screen to help with cleaning. Onion seeds will remain viable for 1-3 years[/I]."

Seems like all the alliums are veeeeery slooooooow to set seeds. Months here from flower to seed in the fall.:shock: Even the spring flowering bunching onions took a goodly while. Bet they're faster in Texas, of course! ;)8-)
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Not much faster it will be sometime this summer.:lol:

Worth

Onion Harvest Day
 

These are the sets I bought calling them Vidalia. I don't think Texas is close enough to Vidalia, Georgia to call them that :lol: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidalia_onion[/URL]

It a yellow hybrid onion. The row was 35' long. There are a few that are good sized. The small ones are perfect for stews and soups, and when you need a little bit of onion. Next year, I'll fertilize and see if they grow bigger.

I will be posting more varieties and pictures throughout the day today.

After clean up and put on the drying rack - there are 70 of them. That's more than I expected.

Robert,

Your onions look excellent.:yes:
The sweetest onions come from a small region in Georgia known for low Sulpher soil growing conditions:

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They look very similar to yours:

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They are known as Yellow Granex Hybrid 33 which you can get seeds at Park Seed:

[URL]http://parkseed.com/yellow-granex-hybrid-33-onion-seeds/p/05208/[/URL]

I am going to start some in September.

Raybo;)

Thank you Raybo

I don't remember the name of these white onions. They were an experiment for me this year. Picture one shows how big they got on the end of the row that got a lot more sun. The last picture shows how they didn't grow much in the area that only got afternoon/evening sunlight. It didn't help that tomato plants were growing beside them. The white onions smell stronger than the yellow ones.

This is what is left of our Red onions. As I've written in this thread, we use them as you would use green onions. They are intermediate day onions that we have grown for years. They won't get big here. They are Red Candy Apple [URL]http://www.dixondalefarms.com/product/red_candy_apple/intermediate_day_onions[/URL]

Next year, we might look for some short day red onions - just for a change.