For a history of this story, please see the previous post on planning. Overall growing onions in the fabric pots was fairly successful. There was one very obvious issue though: the major temperature swings in San Francisco this summer caused many of the onions to bolt much too prematurely. Some days it was roasting hot…
I started this onion from seed in November and harvested them in June (210 days). It’s a short-day onion, grows from 3-4.5″ in diameter. I grew them in my hand made grow pots custom sized for them. They worked quite well. From this variety I got 5 full sized, 4 medium sized, and 1 runt….
After last year’s onion experiment I have wanted to try a much larger variety of onions for 2017, and expand on the growing conditions. I started several varieties mid-November and a few more mid-December. I started the seeds with my usual method of using a small container to start with a high density until they are…