How To Grow Long Red Florence Onion?

This is a heirloom onion. You can grow a lot of them in a small space. These onions are a spindle-shaped and it has a mild spicy taste which makes them delicious for fresh eating. Each bulb is four inches long and the bulb is narrow bulbs that can be grown in smaller spaces where the globe onions need more space.

 

Flavor

This particular onion does have some warm, spicy onion flavor, but without almost no heat. You can slice these onions up for a salad, without any fear of tearing up. They can be made into pickles.

 

Growing Notes

If you are going to plant them by direct sowing, you will need to plant the seeds in a loose, well-drained, fertile soil one to three inches apart. Now if you want to get a head start on your onions, you can start the onions,you can start on your onions, you can start the onion seeds indoors four to six weeks before the last expected  frost date where you live. When your seedlings gets two-three inches tall you will need to give them a dilute solution of kelp or seaweed emulsion and clip off a third of the leaves. Always keep your  plants indoors until you are certain that all danger of frost has passed where you live. Next, you will need to start harden your plants and you do this by putting your plants outside during the day and bring  them  inside at night for  five to seven days. If you live in a frost-free climate you can sow your seeds in the fall for a spring harvest.

When you are transplanting your delicate seedlings, you will need to be very gentle. Onions have  shallow roots and they need to have a lot of water to pump them back up. You will need to keep all the weeds out of your onions and mulch them real good to conserve water. Feed the onions once a month  while the leaves are growing on your onions.

Onions needs a very long growing season, and days to maturity is 95 - 120 days. Onion growth is affected by the amount of sunlight that they receive. This particular type of onion is considered an intermediate day length onion, which means it has to have about 12 to 14 hours  of sunlight before it will begin to form bulbs. These are the most adaptable.

How To Harvest

It is ready when most of its leaves have fallen over. You will need to gently dig and lift the bulbs and then you will need to let them cure in a cool, dry spot. Bend the rest of the leaves when they start to fall and this will speed up your harvest time and it will encourage the onions to form protective outer skins.

How To Grow Asian Greens?

Most of the Asian greens are good to use in stir-fries or for use in salads. They are sow in mid-summer through first part of fall. You can used beds, containers, and growing bags. You  should plant five plants  in each growing bag and you will need to plant fifteen to twenty plants in each nine feet rows.

Four Varieties Of Asian Greens
1. Boy Choy - this one is good in salads or you can cooked them also.

2. Red Giant - this one are red-flushed and it has a mild pepper flavor. Good used in your salads.

3. Spinach Mustard - this one is good to be cut young and the leaves used in salads.

4. Mizuna - this one will look attractive in salads or a garnish.

1. Getting StartedIt is very important that you do not sow Asian greens real early in the year because they can not  take the cold temperatures and when the days start to be longer, the plants are very prone to bolting., if you wait until midsummer, it will discourage the plants  from bolting,. During the summer, high temperatures and no rain will cause these plants to bolt. Bolting is when the plant quickly turns to seeds.

2. Sow Inside

Starting from midsummer on and at routine intervals, you will need to fill your trays with seed compost, and water thoroughly and you need to let the water drain. Sow the seeds and cover them with compost to a depth of 1/2 inch, and firm the soil with the back of a rake. The seeds does not need any extra  heat and will germinate in about a week. When they are large enough, then you will need to transplant outside.

3. Sowing Outside
The oriental greens does real well if they are sown directly. Dig the garden site up good, remove all weeds, and add high-nitrogen feed  to your soil. Rake the soil level, and then begin to mark out 1/2 inch deep drills six to twelve inches apart, depending on which crop you are growing.

4. Planting Out

First of all, prepare your soil well, and get all of weeds remove, and put high-nitrogen fertilizer. After your indoor-grown seedlings are ready to go outside, you will need to place them outside, you will need to place  them outdoors during the day and bring them indoors at night for two weeks.

5. Routine Care
They are prone to be bother with brassica pests, which are flea beetle and cabbage root fly. To keep these pests from the plants, you will need to cover them with a fine insect-proof mesh. You will need to keep the plants weed-free and water them frequently to encourage quick growth of your Asian greens.

6. Pick Young Leaves

When the leaves are large enough to eat, you can either snip  individual leaves, or you can cut back the whole plant. Since the Asian greens grow so quickly in the summer, you will need to sow seeds every two weeks which will give you many harvests throughout the summer instead of one big crop of Asian greens.

7. Harvesting
Sometime you will need to allow the plants to grow to its full size, occasionally thinning the seedlings or transplants out as the season goes. You can cut the head as a whole, or you can pick the individual shoots as they appear.

How To Grow Spinach?

Spinach  can be sow in the late spring, summer, and early fall. Spinach's time to harvest is between six to twelve weeks and spinach can be harvest all summer and fall.

Spinach can be harvested  young and used in salads or allowed to mature. for cooking. Spinach is a crop that is very easy to grow. The seeds can be sow in short drills.

1. Getting Started

Spinach will grow in cool weather and they need a shady site to grow in. They will grow in containers  and beds. In a container I will need to plant twenty to forty-five plants. It does not matter where I plant my spinach the soil has to be very rich, well-drained and it needs to be some organic matter added to the soil such as manure or compost the season before growing.

2. Sowing Outside

Spinach is sown directly into the soil in the garden, or in a containers or window boxes. Because I am planting directly into the soil, the plants are less likely to bolt on me. To get my soil ready for my spinach, and rake it level. Next step, I will need to make a drill 3/4 inches deep and eight inches apart, and water the soil real good. Put seeds directly 1/2 inch apart along your drill, then cover with soil, gently firm down, and water in well.

3. Watering

Spinach is a very thirsty fast-growing crop, so I will need to water spinach very generously and very often so my spinach will be sustain. Because I am growing spinach in very, hot dry weather, I will need to water my spinach once a day. I will need to keep the weeds out of your spinach, so the weeds will not take away the moisture from my spinach. I am using a hoe to keep the weeds out of my spinach plants.

4. Routine Care

After I have got my spinach planted, then routine care comes now. A net would need to be put over my plants to keep the birds away. Another problem can be downy mildew, bit if you have this problem there is resistant varieties available for you to use. Crops will benefit if they have high-nitrogen granular fertilizer such as pelleted poultry manure or they can give them a regular dose of a high nitrogen liquid feed.

5. Cutting Salad Leaves

Spinach can be harvested as a salad leaf when it is small,  cut it when the leaf gets bigger. The best way to cut the spinach leaves is by using scissors. They can be cooked as a milder-tasting, tender leaf than the ones that are from mature plants. The leaves need to be cut as soon as they are ready, and they need to  be used promptly, so they will not spoil.

6. Harvesting

If I want my spinach to grow larger, then I will need to leave them ten to twelve weeks after sowing cut all the leaves off about one inch above the base, and discard all of the yellow ones if my spinach has them. After I harvested the spinach rows, if I keep them well fed and watered, I should get a smaller flush of leaves in two weeks, and they can be harvested again. After this it is best to discard the plants. Eventually, dig the plants up whole, and strip the leaves.

How To Grow Onions?

There are many different varieties of onions which includes white, red, and brown-skinned onions. Onions need a long time to be able to mature fully. I can get sizable bulbs by sowing seeds under cover early in the year. But, there is an  easier method and I can do it by raising plants from sets that are planted in spring or fall. The time to sow is spring, summer, fall, and later part of winter. It takes twenty-two-to twenty-four weeks to be ready to be harvest. The best place to grow onions is in beds. In a nine feet bed I will plant thirty-sixty plants.

1. Sowing Under Cover

If I want larger bulbs, I will need to sow seeds under cover from mid-winter to early spring. I will need to put seed compost in the seed tray, level it out, and water well. Make a hole 1/2 inch  deep and sow two seeds in each hole. I do not have to worry about keeping the seed with additional heat, but they need to be kept moist. Germination will require a week or two.

2. Sowing Outside

The seeds need to be sow in spring for summer crops, or in late summer for the Japanese varieties. Dig through the soil to get all of the weeds out, and rake it firm. Make a drill that is 3/4 inch deep. Water the area down good, and sow thinly along it. Cover, with water in, and once the seedlings have come up,  thin them out so they will be one every two - four inches apart.

3. Planting Sets

Onion sets are very small onion bulbs which are planted in either spring or fall. Each one bulk up in size to a bigger bulb. I plant the sets in the fall which are  the winter-hardy varieties they will mature to produce much larger bulbs than those planted in the spring. Put the sets into prepared soil, two to four inches apart, putting the tip of the set at soil level.

4. Routine Care

Onions need to be kept weeded regularly between each bulbs. I want good-sized bulbs I will need to keep the soil evenly moist. The fall sowings and plantings will benefit from an application of high-nitrogen fertilizer in late winter.

5. Harvesting

It is time to harvest onions when they reach full size, which is when the stems have collapsed and bent over. Harvest the onions on a dry day, by gently lifting them partly out of the soil using a pitch fork. Put them on the ground and leave them  for a week or so to dry out, or you can dry them indoors on racks of it if it it wet outside.

6. How To Dry To Bulbs

To dry my bulbs, I will need to lay the onions out on a wire rack to dry and always keep them off of the ground  so the air can circulate around the bulbs. Leave them in a light, dry place such as a greenhouse or a windowsill. When the outer skins rustle, I can either braid my bulbs and hang them up, or I can put them in net bags to store until I will need them.

How Is Green Onions Grown?

When I am deciding on what crops I am going to put in my garden, I think saving room for some green onions would be a great idea. They will give me a unique flavor to salads if I add green onions to my salad. The plants are very hardy, which will allow me to extend the season, where I can have both early and late sowing. They are very productive, Green onions comes in many different varieties, such as one that forms a small bulb or one that grows like a small leek, and there is Japanese varieties and red-stemmed pickling green onion.

Four Varieties of Green Onion

1. White Lisbon- this particular green onion is the most commonly grown one and they are good for growing in containers.
2. Guardsman- it has long well-blanched stems with dark green leaves. This particular one is a vigorous variety.
3. North Holland Blood Red- They have red stems that deepen in color with age.
4. Summer Isle- they crop late. The mild flavor makes it where anybody can eat them raw.

Sow Harvest Beds and Containers

Green onion  seeds are sown in spring, summer, and winter. They are harvest in early spring, all summer through middle of fall.

1.Getting Started

Green onions are grown from seed, by being sown directly in the soil or in large containers during spring, summer, and winter. I can also raised early and late crops under cover, or I can raised them in containers. greenhouse borders, or growing beds  I can plant 150 green onion plants in a nine feet rows. In a container, I can plant  forty plants.

2. Sowing Under Cover

Some of the green onion's varieties are hardy so I can have early- and late- season sowings under cover so this will make it where I can extend the harvesting period. In a twelve inch wide container, I will need to fill it with seed, compost, level the compost, water it well, and allow it to drain well. Make drills 1/2 inch  deep and four inches apart by using a trowel or some kind of pole like bamboo. Sow the seeds 1/2 inch apart along the base of the drill, cover it with more compost and lightly water it. When the seedlings come up, thin them out by leaving one strong plant every 3/4 inch. I will need to protect my crop from slug damage by putting a light sprinkling of pellets.

3. Sowing Outside


Since I am going to sow my green onions outside, I will need to prepare my soil, removing weeds and any crop debris, level it out and rake it real good. Make out drills 1/2 inch deep and four inches apart. Water the base of the drill real good is my next step. Then, I will sow the seeds 1/2 inch apart along the length of the drill. Cover the seeds with soil, and water them lightly.

4. Under Cover Crops

The green onions can be grown under cover in containers so I can have an early or late harvest of them. They need to be water real well and they also needs to have a diluted general purpose liquid fertilizer as they grow. The green onion's plants needs to be well-ventilated all the time to prevent fungal diseases such as botrytis.

5. Routine Care

The crops needs to be well-watered because in dry condition this will cause the plants to become bulbous. Green onions need to be hoe  all the time to keep the weeds out of them, because they are very sensitive to weed competition. In cold areas, they will need to be protect  by using either garden fabric or a cloche.

6. Harvesting

The green onions are ready for  harvesting when their stems are pencil-thick and I  will need to gently lift each plant out by using a hand fork, then I will need to refirm the soil so that all of the other plants that I am not harvesting now, will continue on growing. Green onions is a vegetable that does not store well, so L only harvested the amount that I need for right now.

How To Grow Turnips?

Turnips can be sow in the spring, summer, and last of the winter, and they are harvest late  spring, all summer,and fall, also the first of the winter. It takes six to ten weeks to harvest. Turnips are suitable to be planted in beds and containers. I will need to plant thirty plants in a nine feet roll and I will need to plant ten plants in each containers. Turnips can be grown for their leaves which is called turnip tops. The roots of turnips are sweet and tender. Turnips will provide several rounds of tasty leafy greens through the leaner months, which would make it real good.

Getting started

Turnips like to have a bunch of organic matter like well-rotted compost or manure in the soil, so this needs to be added to the soil the season before you plant the turnip. Turnips likes to have moist and well-drained soil.
Four Varieties of Turnips

1. Purple Top Milan- it should be pulled early when they are two inch wide. The roots of this variety has a sweet flavor.
2. Snowball- this type of radish who has all white roots which are sweet and tender. You will need to take these radishes out of the garden at six weeks.
3. Primera- the roots of this one has purple tops and they need to be pulled small. The flesh of these turnips is sweet and tender.

Atlantic- has purple and white roots and they can be harvested at a young age or I can leave them in the ground to mature.

Sowing under cover- Put trays with seed compost, level the soil, and water well. Let the soil drain real well and then make a 3/4 inch deep hole in each cell. Sow four seeds in each hole, then cover over, and water real well. This needs to be done over and over until I have the trays finish. Fill large containers  with compost, and make 3/4 inch deep drill. The seeds can be sowed thinly along the base, or I can sow a few seeds every four inches. Then I will need to thin the seedlings to one seedling per hole or cell or I can have  one every four inches; harden off, and then plant them out when they are large enough to handle it.

Sowing outside

I can sow my turnip seeds directly outside from mid-spring and late summer. This is the way that I sow my turnip's seeds all the time.. Before I can plant my turnip seed, I will need to work  up my soil and make sure I can  get all of the weeds out of my garden spot. After I do this, I will need to add high nitrogen granular fertilizer. Rake level to a fine tilt, then make drills 3/4 inch deep and put them nine to twelve  inches apart.

Routine care

During the hot, dry summer, there could be a problem with flea beetles, so I will need to cover the drills with a mesh that is insect-proof. Always keep all of the plants well watered and fed as they are growing. If my plants are in light soils and containers. they need to be fed occasionally with a high nitrogen liquid fertilizer so I can get bigger yields.

Weeding

Turnips plants  need to be kept weed-free since weeds will compete with the plants for light and nutrients, and weeds may have disease. To get weeds away from my plants, I will need to do this by hand, so I do not damage my plants, and I use a hoe to remove weeds between the rows.


Harvesting

I have fast-growing summer plants, I will need to harvest the turnips when they reach the size of a golf ball, because if I do not do this and let them grow longer, the turnips will have a woody texture. Harder winter types can be left to grow larger so they can be lifted in the fall when I need them.