Wow, I have not realized how exensive it is. Speaking of fertilizers, would not it be possible just to fertilize with compost? Say, all the leaves and stems from last year's beans? I could be wrong, as I'm new to this.

Most of my garden is running on compost now but those onions gotta have the nitrogen and the water. Wait until that weed seed gets some 29% nitrogen. I am saving up grass
clippings now to mulch heavy.
Tomatoes are history and have gone dormant. I have new seeds
in the flats now waiting for mid-Feb. early March.

Lucky you,fishead both on getting the extra onion sets and on free labor.
I remember using Ammonium nitrate years ago. The plants loved it.
Felix

I ordered 200 from Dixondale also, planted them and have the sore back to prove it. They seem to be doing well and the green shoots are growing fast. Do I need to be concerned with frost?

I do not think onions mind a mild frost or cold weather I
would be concerned with a hard freeze. After all Dixondale
farms is much farther north than we are.
I am more concerned with global cooling than global warming
most studies are now shwoing we are going into a cooling period.
Al Gore made his bazillion dollars and the leftist's want to
the bring the USA down to a 3rd. world country so let us not
burn any coal to make elec. or build a new nuclear power plant. Next time at 10 PM you discover you need milk for the baby ride you bike or walk.
Al Gore will sent out his helicopter from his 25K sq. ft house for a loaf of bread.
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My first planting for this winter is starting to bulb up already. Those were from sets. The second planting was from plants and went in about a month after the sets. They should start to bulb in another week or two.

They do respond well to fertilizer.

.....Alan.