Guest guest Posted June 19, 2009 Report Share Posted June 19, 2009 Okay Rosa, sounds like an educational mixed strategy using seeds and some whole bulbs too would be called for until I see how the plants grow and can judge the usefulness of the onion greens (??). Food for thought I guess. Maybe Bev will join in again and describe what kind of onions she was growing between her tomato plants. Thanks for the info. Slim , " rosetalleo " <rosetalleo wrote: > > They are two different things, planting onion seeds is also very cool. About 16 months later (I told you I'd starve as an onion grower) I got nice little bulb onions from seed. When I put the whole sprouting onion from the store I can harvest the scallions right away, and keep harvesting the green part until it goes to seed. That can be a lot of onion greens, that are 'free'. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2009 Report Share Posted June 19, 2009 They also sell 'onion sets' at nurseries. In order to 'protect' you tomatoes now you are better off planting sprouted grocery store onions if you cannot find onion sets. The reason is that seeds are super slow, so you would have only pencil size onions by the time the tomatoes are done. When your grocery store onions flower, you can harvest the seed and get 'free' seed from your own garden, so it is adapted and fresh. The flowers are also really pretty. Then sow the seeds for next year spring onion crop in the fall. By the way i don't now about onions and tomatoes, I will try it though. I do have alliums all around roses for that reason, plus, similar watering schedule and alliums take up so little space. I had heard of marigolds and basil with tomatoes, both of which i do. , " slim_langer " <slim_langer wrote: > > Okay Rosa, sounds like an educational mixed strategy using seeds and some whole bulbs too would be called for until I see how the plants grow and can judge the usefulness of the onion greens (??). Food for thought I guess. Maybe Bev will join in again and describe what kind of onions she was growing between her tomato plants. > > Thanks for the info. > > Slim > > > , " rosetalleo " <rosetalleo@> wrote: > > > > They are two different things, planting onion seeds is also very cool. About 16 months later (I told you I'd starve as an onion grower) I got nice little bulb onions from seed. When I put the whole sprouting onion from the store I can harvest the scallions right away, and keep harvesting the green part until it goes to seed. That can be a lot of onion greens, that are 'free'. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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