Continuing with my container gardening experiment, today we discuss "Onions" I have several planted in different ways and places. Buckets, to planters, with different heights of soil and different types of mix of soils. Follow me to see what works and what was not so successful. I have a few different varieties of onions in each bucket or planter.
This bucket is coming along nicely. I planted this purposely at the end of July. Although the yields are low, 4 but hey it is food and will for me serve 2 suppers per onion. I mixed this bucket with black earth, sheep manure and a handful of sand for drainage as it is in a bucket. I chose not to fertilize just to see how successful they would be without. I am hoping to pick these close to thanksgiving. The variety is white seed onions.
These little guys I started from seed the 3rd week of July. These are wawa white onions. They were planted with a mix of black earth, and this time I used cow manure, and again no fertilizer. I chose not to start the seeds indoors and transplant them as seedlings. These onions will probably have to wait until closer to mid November to pick. They did well through the first few frosts of the year. The soil is up about a foot and a half high up the planter. I also chose not to put sand in this planter.
Here I have 2 planters that I planted with white seed onions, Cortland. They are different from the other set I planted in the first picture. These are organic. I also planted these in late July, and have done well with the frost. I used sand, black earth and horse manure in this planter. No fertilizer again.
I have 2 different varieties of chives planted that are in buckets, and plan on bringing them inside for the winter to enjoy in my salads. I have garlic Chives and the basic onion chives.
This last photo, if you look behind my watermelon plant in the long blue planter, those are my scallions that I will also be bring in for the winter.
Hope this helps you all in encouraging you to try container gardening.
Happy Trails