With spring right around the corner, it's the perfect time to be learning how to plant onions. There are two main ways you ...

In our area and latitude, late January to early February is the ideal time to start sowing seeds indoors for onion ...

Add nitrogen-rich fertiliser at planting time and every few weeks throughout the season. Be sure to practice crop rotation each year too. Start onion seeds indoors. It can take up to two weeks for ...

but there are real advantages to discover from planting onion seeds. I grew onions for many years for chefs in kitchen ...

Where possible, choose onion sets that have been heat-treated. This means their flower embryos have been killed, so they're less likely to run to seed or bolt. Generally, growing onions from sets ...

Plants grown from sets often begin blooming in mid-summer and stubbornly refuse to stop. Once that happens, onion bulbs don't ...

Plant seeds as soon as the soil can be worked, usually from mid to late March. Wide-row spacing also works well when planting onion seeds. Plant the seeds 1/4 to 1/2 inch deep in the soil.

£49 year or £4.99 a month, cancel anytime. Onions need plenty of time to grow so it's best to sow them early in the year in January or February. Exhibition growers sow their onions as early as ...

Onions have been grown around the world for 5,000 years for culinary and medicinal use and winter is a good time to start ...