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| Small onions from 2013 |
Last year, I experimented
with planting a bunch of onion sets with some limited success. And,
while I was able to harvest some medium sized onions (average weight
was 43 grams), I was still a bit disappointed with the small sizes.
The good news was that I had a lot of small onions and they served me
well on into the fall months.
This year (2014), I plan to use the
same raised bed space, but with the following changes; 1) I plan to
incorporate soil from one of my older backyard raised bed areas. This
soil has a high clay content and onions planted in this soil last
year did well, and 2) I plan to amend the soil with additional
compost prior to planting. The designation for this experiment will
be YS3514 which is an abbreviation for yellow sets planted on March
5th in 2014. Stay tuned for more details to be added to this post. Right now I'm waiting for a five inch snowfall to melt... The notes from last years effort can be found here.
March 5, 2014 planting!
April 17 update: Here is a look at the onion sets that are located in a small raised bed.
May 21 update: Onions were looking very good!
March 5, 2014 planting!
April 17 update: Here is a look at the onion sets that are located in a small raised bed.
May 21 update: Onions were looking very good!
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