I tried yanking out the duplicates, but they kept tearing at the base. Hopefully they won’t resprout.
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I will be starting some potato onion seed soon.
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This year I’ve started using the winter growing Allium vineale that’s a common naturalized lawn and garden weed around here. I had always been told they were poisonous but on researching it I’ve find that’s not true. I think I’ll nice a clump or two into a garden bed.
Pretty tasty, halfway between garlic and chives.
I think this year I’ll plant a bunch of perennial alliums for greens. I plan to get regular chives, garlic chives, walking onion, Welsh onion, and maybe ramps. I’m interested in alliums with edible greens, any suggestions?
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just seeded my flat of italy, walla walla, american flag leek, and ishikura bunching.
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I was only able to add fertilizer to four beds of onions a bit ago. I haven’t gotten to adding fertilizer to the rest of my onions and garlic with the latter looking a bit yellowish from the tips and the former not as dark green as the others from the four beds.
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Does anyone have suggestions for a garlic to get? I dont use storebought garlic much, im a jarlic user lol. Im planning on growing some next season and the orders are opening. Hoping for something quite different from store bought
Also in other news onions are being transplanted this weekend..time to start hardening them
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Haha, that’s a keeper to use with friends and family!
It seems with how wet it has been, my onions have developed some kind of mildew: it is dark in appearance. Will have to spray with copper fungicide.
This week it’ll be hot with humidity around 50%. First year planting onions. I just want a good harvest. 
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Could you show a picture of it?
Hmm, I have never seen a leaf disease like that on any allium before. Would almost make me think the soild is too wet weakening the plant to be susceptible?
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Wetness is a factor. It seems to have started after the heavy rains. Going to the hardware store to find copper fungicide. Will spray during the weekend, since spraying the leaves further in the evening would exacerbate the situation.
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Looks like this to me?
https://ipm.ucanr.edu/agriculture/onion-and-garlic/downy-mildew/#gsc.tab=0
treatment options
I usually dig down before I yank them out.
I actually have alot of difficulty starting them from seed. I can grow tomatoes, peppers, hot peppers, eggplants from seed, but I struggle with onions. What are some tips?
Hmm, not sure I do anything special. I just sprinkle them on top of the soil and either sprinkle a little more soil over top or just gently push them in. I just throw a bunch in a quart. I tried the viral snail rolls this year, which grew just as well as the containers started at the same time, but when it came time for the grand unroll and supposedly easy planting, it was a mess. Totally my fault though- I used scraps of root pouch bags I had and the roots stuck to the bag and instantly tore off. So…don’t do that!
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the snail method looks liek a winner next year for me when i do leeks. its such a pain in the ass seperating leeks from eachother in seed trays, the roll should be easier because i can just plant them in the roll
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I really don’t see how planting the roll straightened out works at all. I’ve seen videos of people doing that but never the end result. Everything will be way too close/overcrowded to size up appropriately. I’ve seen people do them and then easily pick them up to plant with nice long, untangles roots, and I think that’s the way to go. I think anything is better than a seed tray that doesn’t allow with much roots at all.
Well you plant leeks quite close together then thin them as they grow