We're sharing how long it takes for onions to grow, so you know exactly when it's time to harvest your crop on time.

Exactly when to plant them depends on how soon you can work the ground in spring. Onions, ... You can either start with seeds or you can buy sets, which are tiny onion bulbs.

The allium family of vegetables are easy to grow and often available year around. They can grow fairly close together, so ...

Onions are good about indicating when they are ready to harvest. The bulbs push themselves out of the ground and send three ...

Set the bulbs with the point end up. Again, don’t bury them more than 2 inches under the soil. It’s important that onions aren’t planted too deep, as this can affect bulb development.

Short-day onions are a better choice for the deep south, because they only need 10-12 hours of light to initiate bulb formation. In our area they will most likely only produce small bulbs.

Plants grown from sets often begin blooming in mid-summer and stubbornly refuse to stop. Once that happens, onion bulbs don't increase much in size. Sarah Browning: Know your onions, from sets to ...

Fill a large bowl with ice water; set aside. ... Toss together spring onion bulbs, spring lettuces, asparagus, and half of dressing (about 1/2 cup) in a large bowl.

Alternatively you could grow your onions from baby bulbs known as 'sets' instead. Onion sets are produced by growing onions from seed very close together. The immature bulbs produced are not large ...

You can identify them by their bulb— scallions have the thinnest, usually no wider than the onion’s stem, while green onions’ bulbs are slightly larger and spring onions’ are round.