What to feed Onions

[Brandon558]

Originally Posted by Worth1

How far apart are they?
If they are in hard ground the wont bulb as well and need to be planted to where the bulbs form on the top of the soil.
It may be that you are growing long daylight cultivars instead of short daylight cultivars.

Onions in the south do better started from seed in the fall and grown out in the spring.

They need lots of nitrogen to develop leaves as each leaf is a new onion layer for the bulb.
Onions wont tell you when they need water as they dont wilt.

Soil should be on the alkali side above 7 and use no sulfur this way they will be sweet not hot.

Mine this year were so sweet you could eat them like an apple.

Worth

Great info above...thanks.

As far as space between the onions most are about 4"......some are bulbing fairly well while others have hardly bulbed at all.

Do you want to keep adding compost or soil as the bulb grows out of the ground or let them grow on top?

Also....the ones that are not growing well, should i just pull them and give the others that are doing okay the space? Or will it make a difference at this point?


Thanks