When you are shopping for onion varieties to plant in your vegetable garden, you will often see them listed as either short-day onions or long-day onions. Which ones to grow depend upon where you ...

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The easiest way to grow onions is from sets, available from garden centres. Prepare the soil a couple of months before planting by digging over and adding manure. Plant the sets in spring in ...

Onions are a kitchen staple that can be planted in either spring or autumn and are easy to grow in a sunny spot. The Which? Gardening experts have grown and tasted onions from sets (little bulbs), ...

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By growing your own, you have a much larger selection of different varieties of onions than if you were to purchase transplants from a garden center. Garden centers often stock just a few of the ...

Serendipity ornamental onion is recommended for zones 4-8 ... but depending on the time of day I see lavender pink in my garden. The blooms are globe-like but held sturdily atop blue green ...

During my years as executive director of the Columbus Botanical Garden in Georgia ... My question was: Could an ornamental onion or allium hybrid with landscape beauty do the same for pollinators?

Those years were not good for onions unless gardeners took the necessary precautions. Raised planting beds. This is the quickest way to improve garden drainage. You either build flattened ...

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To plant onion seedlings in the bed now, I will sprinkle granular fertilizer over the soil surface followed by an inch or so of compost. I use my hori hori garden knife (which is like a narrow ...