Onions

[Gardening with Rabbits]

When should I start onion seeds in zone 5? I can't wait to get started.

 

[digitS']

I started onions in January one year, GWR.

The soil froze in my greenhouse. Thawed, froze again. Froze and cracked! I didn't know what to do with it! I didn't want to carry the heavy flat of potting mix into the house. . . didn't want to push the plants in the warmth.

It would warm during the day so I covered it a few nights to keep from freezing. Seedlings grew. It would continue to freeze in the greenhouse overnight. They didn't look too happy.

I think that was the year I tried the "haircut" method of sheering off the onion plants to try to control their growth a little, because it was still too cold to set them out. Others seem to think this is okay but the plants didn't look to happy. Of course, they didn't look too happy before.

Steve
after all that, I decided to wait later in the winter - like february. keeping them indoors, what about viola family plants, GWR? maybe petunias (for your onion patch ).

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I have some kind of pansy growing in the herb garden and I am not sure how it got there. Plant them with my onions? If it was not for the taste of the onions, I would never plant them again. I don't remember when I started last year. It must have been February because I was so tired of them. I remember putting them under the sawhorse greenhouse I made on the patio. I remember you planted yours in the ground before me. I was so tiredwhen I finished planting those onions, but I am going to start more this year than I did last year.

 

[digitS']

I'm a lonely little petunia
In an onion patch
An onion patch, an onion patch

Lonely little petunia
In an onion patch
And all I do is cry all day . . .

No GWR, those are just 2 flowers that are very slow growing and ones I've started very early. The pansies especially can be shooed outdoors early when you have become tired of looking at them malingering inside. Sowing those seeds now may serve as a distraction for impatient . .

. . digitS'

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Okay, I get it. I have plenty of time for onions. Petunias and pansies sound interesting.

 

[vfem]

Rabbits, I forget what zone you are in?

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Zone 5B in Idaho.