The first of April is usually when I begin planning on putting onions into the garden. In fact I love placing them in totes which is how I grow onions from year to year with good success.
With cooler but warm enough weather for onions to survive right now was a perfect time to get them into totes. I even planted some in the ground as well since I had plenty of onion bulbs left.
Yesterday I was able to get the entire onion harvest completed. It doesn’t take long to take out onions once you get started it goes very quickly. All I do is pull them out and brush off all the loose dirt and place them in a large container. Since I have five totes full of onions a small bucket will fill up very fast.
In total I was able to get over 30 pounds of onions and a count of 95. It seems like placing twenty bulbs in the beginning is the right amount you can place in these size totes. (more…)
