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.
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