Julia

The best way to grow sweet onions is to wait when they are selling them at either Lowes or HD.
They sell a whole big bunch for cheap, no shipping charges for expensive onions either.

Ask them when they are getting or talk to them in person, and let us all know. I am going to plant those again like I did it last year.

Silvia

Thank you Silva. I did buy a bunch in the spring but they didn't grow! Is that a spring/summer crop here? We use a lot of sweet onions in my house and I've love to be able to grow those. TIA

Julia

Julia

I planted sweet onions last fall, and had onions till the weather hot. Then I pull them out.

If you planted them in the spring, they had no chance to make bulbs with the weather getting warmer.

If you want scallions, then you can plant the leftover root after you use them from the store. Somebody else idea and it works.

I will be looking for onion starters, seed potatoes and maybe garlic to be planted soon.

Silvia

you can do leeks with just the roots, too. the scallions are perennial--i've had a stand of them for years. i just snip the tops and they grow back in a few weeks...

i prefer the white and the red granex onions. the yellow ones tasted just like spanish onions--that's not a criticism, it's just that i can grow more interesting things in my tiny space than spanish onions. the red and white, tho, were excellent.

some nurseries sell the onions, too. call around. lowes carried them in deland last year starting mid november.

I prefer red and white onions too. I never buy the yellow ones.
Michael, that is good to know about the leeks. I make potato and leek soup sometimes. I can plant the leftovers...

Last year I bought the multiplying onions from Southern Exposure and the white granex onions from HD. I had a lot of onions!

Silvia

I've got some leeks going now.