Near the end Laura wants to show us the topiaries and apologizes because she’s showing us one more thing! 😂 Does she even know us? We are all dying for the camera to pan all over the greenhouse, and have a peek at the projects that we have watched her do! So excited for the new gardening season!
I am also amazed by nature. I have noticed that we as gardeners often forget that what we’re doing isn’t just an art-form, it’s science too, and I think that’s pretty neat.
We are supposed to have our first 40° day in Minnesota today! (Last week barely made it above zero!) All the snow will be melting and added a lot of moisture to the soil. One day closer to playing in the garden!♡
Greetings, Laura, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 🧅🇺🇸 We look for Vidalia onions at the grocery store because they are so mild. But I do grow Walla Walla onions 🌰 We are enjoying a beautiful day ahead 🌞 80° Happy Gardening Everyone 👩🌾👍
Nature is amazing in every way. The world of Flowers, the world of trees, the world of gemstones, such different terrain, on and on. It points to how beautiful and amazing the CREATOR is.
OK, onion planting time. I will do it this weekend. But I planted shallot bulbs in the ground in the fall around the time I planted my garlic, the variety I grow will form multiple bulbs around the bulb i planted, and when ready to harvest, they literally push themselves out of the ground. I love Shallots. I have learned so much from you on growing my own food, and I'm not a beginner. Thank you!
So excited seed starting season is here! You're weather is about two weeks ahead of mine. I'm trying so hard this year to not start everything too early especially the veges. But I'm ready to go!
Lol I’m the same. I keep jumping the gun because Laura is showing it so I think I should do it and she and I aren’t in the same zones and don’t have the same infrastructure 😂
Beautiful content as usual! Blessings from 7a, NE Georgia! First year doing raised beds this year and I am itching with getting food production. Just purchased 2 apple trees, a pear tree, apricot tree and a few more edibles 😁😁
@@cynthiarafferty7662 Ambitious for sure! While I love the beauty of my gardens I'd like to see more purpose/function. With the trend of life and littles our family has always thought about self reliance, so more food production is the goals for 2023 garden and on.
I grew Walla Walla onions last year. I was giving some away. This year I am going to dehydrate some and freeze some. I don’t have any place to store them except my fridge
Amazing video Laura!! I’m so fascinated to see your growth and your amazing garden! I absolutely love what you do!! Your amazing Laura!! You have inspired a lot of people including me and I’m only 16!And I’ve being gardening since I saw your planting bulbs in December video!! And now I teach others how to grow their own food on my channel Ultimate Gardening! Keep yo the great work and never stop!💚
I grew Walla Walla onions for the first time last year because of you Laura and they are now one of my favourite varieties! I have always preferred red onions so that says something about how good Walla Walla's are
“Nature is amazing and that’s why we garden” - Laura I learned so much about onions today 🧅!! That’s what’s so great about GA - learning things we never imagined. I’ve recently moved and my patio faces north, so no direct sunlight 😔 Gonna miss not planting veggies this year. Enjoy your day GA community! 🌞
Do try the red onions in cooking, especially raw foods like salads both leaf and cabbage salads. I've seen chopped onions rinsed in cooking shows, to cut the flavor. I JUST PAID 2$ PER 1 single RED ONION AT SAFEWAY. I'm growing onions this garden year!.
I'm so excited to see how the shallots turn out for you. I grew onions from seed for the very first time last year (inspired by you) and they turned out great. Now I want to try shallots. But will use up the onion seeds I have first.
I have been growing shallots from seed for several years now. Johnny's has great selection of different varieties. So far Matador and Conservador have stored the longest for me. I store them in the basement and last summer I ate the last one from the year before on the same day I harvested my first batch of new season!
Am I the only one, but when Laura got blindsided by the shallots I said to myself she’s going to forget the vermiculite, lol. Love the video just wish I could have called and said “don’t forget the vermiculite.🤣 . Thanks for all your help and advice, I think I may try to grow some shallots this year.
Hi Laura’s, I ordered some of the geraniums from swallow tail nursery, the maverick scarlet. They have all germinated in 5 days and are standing up about an inch with 2 leaves. Thanks for the tip, I am anxious to have them in the spring. We are in Michigan, so it is nice to see a little life growing. I really enjoy your videos.
Now you’re in my wheelhouse. You may remember me saying I grew up near where you are. On a farm outside Nyssa. We grew yellow sweet Spanish onions 🧅 and russet potatoes (some red potatoes, too) my dad was president of Oregon onion growers association years ago. I am an onion snob and hate having to buy onions and potatoes in the grocery stores. I was somewhat instrumental getting a grocery store in Boise to buy more local onions, telling off their produce manager for buying Mexican grown onions - when the best onions in the country were grown 50 miles from them. So if growing your own is possible, I highly recommend it! 💚💚💚
I applaud you in SO many ways. I'm fortunate to live in an area where all of the grocery stores support our growers from veggies to orchards. But I'm sure that is likely because of someone like you who stepped up and used their voice in support of all things local, so thank you!
Right when I think Laura does everything and she is such a busy bee…she drops the bomb on me and says she cooks dinner every night….?!? Ummmm I can’t even do three nights a week 😂😭 is there anything you can’t or don’t do?! ❤️
I noticed the Botanical Interests seeds. Did you see Kevin’s news? I can’t remember if I started watching your channel because of him mentioning you or vice versa. But you two are my favorite gardening content creators. ❤️🌱 Now I’ve got seeds from BI and Andrew’s bulk bins. Stopped through Ontario on my way home to Salem from Yellowstone. 👍🏼
Good to see the topiaries are filling in. I was wondering how they’re doing👍🏼 I’m unfortunately allergic to the entire allium family :( but that will be a robust onion crop! Always a pleasure!
You’re right! The ball has started rolling. I’m in SW Ontario and just spotted our daffodils coming up from the ground yesterday. Today we are getting hit with lots of rain and it’s 11C which is crazy high for this time of year.
Hey Laura. Do have any tips or videos on grapevine pruning for the winter? Love your videos, found them after I took over my family home and my grandmother’s garden thank you for helping me find my new passion 🫶🏽
@@amysgardenstead2879 I have all of those and the ones from Averie Cooks. I have a cookbook of all the recipes Laura and her Mom cook. Thanks for helping. Happy Valenine's Day.
I was just getting ready to type out a comment asking how onion are grown and there you go answering it before I can post! 😂 Thanks as always for a fun and informative video!
Good morning Laura and family . I'm not a seed person I tried it once to me its a slow process nope not for me, I do love watching you, planting your seeds. Thank you for sharing, have a great rest of the day 👋🙂🧅
Good morning, Laura ☕️ I too love onions and I have never planted any 🤷♀️ Perhaps I’ll try winter sowing now here in Boston, zone 6. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
Last year I attempted growing onions for the first time from seed. I had great success with germination and was so proud of all my healthy little starts with lots of beautiful roots. However, the plants put on very little growth and the bulb part never got bigger than about an inch or 2 in diameter. They were planted in Espoma raised bed mix near my peppers, tomatoes, and beans, which were fertilized (with garden tone) and watered the same amount and did amazing. Where did I go wrong? Do they need more fertilizer and or water than my other veggies? I chose a long day variety which is appropriate for my latitude. Thank you for sharing so much of your knowledge and experience with us. I am the passionate gardener that I am today largely thanks to you. 💕
I got some shallot sets from Andrews two years ago and plant them at the same time as my garlic. Haven’t tried the seed but I guess that’s a new thing to try. Shallots are a great cross between onion and garlic in cooking.
Have you ever tried starting the onion seeds in an open flat kind of like sprouts? I start them in open flats, trim them back once , then prick them out and pot them up. It saves a lot of seed starting room. I have even left them close together in the float and them planted them out from there but found they get a bigger if they are potted up first. Also, you had a lot of seed left over. Do you get good germination if you save them for a second year?
This is perfectly timed. I bought onion slips from my garden center yesterday. I tried last year and it was an epic fail so hoping for better results this year 🤞🏻
I highly recommend that you take some of your onions dehydrate then and grind them into onion powder. It is the most amazing onion powder you will ever eat. It goes great on popcorn makes it taste like sour cream and onion flavor
Just planted 4rows of Stuttgarten giant onion sets it is still frost on a night but they should be ok have bought the shallots today to plant tomorrow . Seed potatoes have arrived today to start chatting ready for planting later in the month.
This is a good time to try and start some fig cuttings. I see a few suckers coming up from your fig tree. You might even have a few roots on them if they came from under the soil. I have done many cuttings & rooted them. I now have 70 fig trees from over 100 a year ago. Had to downsize.
@@messybunsoap6712 I live in Michigan. Zone 6a I grow mine in pots. It’s hard to grow in ground in my zone. Check out a few of my videos on my fig trees. 😉 Im not Laura but I knew a few things about fig trees.
My local garden center has a chart of when to plant, start indoors or direct seed, when to transplant outside, row spacing, and plant spacing for our zone for just about any veggie/herb you can imagine planting. I refer to this chart all throughout the seed starting season.
Hi Laura and Aaron! I love your channel and it is so full of information. I am starting my seeds and was wondering if you could go over watering? How do you know when a cell is to dry or wet? I have one cell that is dry on top but seems moist underneath the surface? Using the self watering trays from Gardeners supply is great…but I am afraid that my seedlings would dampen off when the surface stays wet. Any helpful tips would be awesome!! Thanks again for inspiring us everyday!!
Near the end Laura wants to show us the topiaries and apologizes because she’s showing us one more thing! 😂 Does she even know us? We are all dying for the camera to pan all over the greenhouse, and have a peek at the projects that we have watched her do! So excited for the new gardening season!
I was actually trying to figure out what those plants were before she showed us.
Love her videos
❤
I always love when Laura says, “we’ll be heading down to the garden center”! ROAD TRIP! ❤❤😂😂
Good morning all!
Good morning!
I am also amazed by nature. I have noticed that we as gardeners often forget that what we’re doing isn’t just an art-form, it’s science too, and I think that’s pretty neat.
Every single season, I look at the teeny tiny seeds and am awed by what they grow into - nature IS simply amazing!
Thanks for another informative video.....From Walla Walla...yes love our onions 😁
We are supposed to have our first 40° day in Minnesota today! (Last week barely made it above zero!) All the snow will be melting and added a lot of moisture to the soil. One day closer to playing in the garden!♡
Mpls. Suburb here. Just remember it’s only February! There’s lots of winter weather yet. But it’s been a great reprieve. December really did me in.
@@bridgeth7961 here in mid Ohio we has one sub zero week ... that killed me.
Sat in the sunshine for 10 minutes. It was lovely! Sunshine-starved. Bloomington; MN. 💕Jennifer
Mpls suburbs: yeah, this has been a tough one! Taking vitamin d, but I need to be out in the sun!
MI also melted, long walk and saw robins eating crabapples!
Greetings, Laura, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 🧅🇺🇸
We look for Vidalia onions at the grocery store because they are so mild. But I do grow Walla Walla onions 🌰
We are enjoying a beautiful day ahead 🌞 80° Happy Gardening Everyone 👩🌾👍
Your enthusiasm is so contagious ! ❤❤❤ Love it !
Nature is amazing in every way. The world of Flowers, the world of trees, the world of gemstones, such different terrain, on and on. It points to how beautiful and amazing the CREATOR is.
I live for these onion starting videos. And garlic planting. I just love having them in real time to make sure we’re on track.
Hi, sissy!🥰 Green onions are my favorite onion to cook with.👍🏾💯
OK, onion planting time. I will do it this weekend. But I planted shallot bulbs in the ground in the fall around the time I planted my garlic, the variety I grow will form multiple bulbs around the bulb i planted, and when ready to harvest, they literally push themselves out of the ground. I love Shallots. I have learned so much from you on growing my own food, and I'm not a beginner. Thank you!
Would you please give the shallot variety name? They sound right up my alley! Thanks!
Variety? I’m interested
My shallots are Yellow Moon.
This puts my Spring Fever into serious overdrive!
So excited seed starting season is here! You're weather is about two weeks ahead of mine. I'm trying so hard this year to not start everything too early especially the veges. But I'm ready to go!
Im subscribed, love your videos
I usually start too early as well, then they're too big when the weather finally changes.
Im here for it!
Lol I’m the same. I keep jumping the gun because Laura is showing it so I think I should do it and she and I aren’t in the same zones and don’t have the same infrastructure 😂
Me too. I'm chomping at the bit!!
Thanks Laura!🤗💞🤗
Who else wants Laura to share her meal plan ❤?!
Beautiful content as usual!
Blessings from 7a, NE Georgia! First year doing raised beds this year and I am itching with getting food production. Just purchased 2 apple trees, a pear tree, apricot tree and a few more edibles 😁😁
Ambitious! Happy gardening! I hope you have a great growing season this year.
@@cynthiarafferty7662 Ambitious for sure! While I love the beauty of my gardens I'd like to see more purpose/function. With the trend of life and littles our family has always thought about self reliance, so more food production is the goals for 2023 garden and on.
It’s interesting that we’re in the same 7a zone and I’m in NJ.
I grew Walla Walla onions last year. I was giving some away. This year I am going to dehydrate some and freeze some. I don’t have any place to store them except my fridge
Hello Denise how are you doing,
where are you from?
Laura I love all your videos, I watch them over and over! Your so gifted and talented ! ❤🎉
Amazing video Laura!! I’m so fascinated to see your growth and your amazing garden! I absolutely love what you do!! Your amazing Laura!! You have inspired a lot of people including me and I’m only 16!And I’ve being gardening since I saw your planting bulbs in December video!! And now I teach others how to grow their own food on my channel Ultimate Gardening! Keep yo the great work and never stop!💚
That’s so great that you’ve started gardening at 16! I hope you consider gardening or horticulture as a career🌱🌼
@@angelaengler2387 I most definitely am! My dream is to own my own Nursery or become a plant breeder!😊🧑🏽🌾
I really appreciated the #shorts you made on the ranunculus. That would be a great way to quickly update us on one planting at a time.
Thanks!
Seeing so many onions brings a tear to my eye! 😁😁
😂😂😂
Isn’t Nature amazing? That’s why we garden, right? Right! 😚😚😚
I love the trim the floppy onion growth! Thank you so much for the trick!❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks , Laura! You've inspired me to go to the garden center and look at seeds!
I grew Walla Walla onions for the first time last year because of you Laura and they are now one of my favourite varieties! I have always preferred red onions so that says something about how good Walla Walla's are
Thank you for reminding us of those air pockets. Loved watching.
The flavor of home grown shallots is unbeatable.
Great video. You inspire us to get started planting. Have a blessed day
So helpful!! I gotta try to grow some!! As I think I’ve mastered French onion soup that both of my boys actually love ❣️
You're such a wonderful resource of information blended with first hand experience. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
“Nature is amazing and that’s why we garden” - Laura
I learned so much about onions today 🧅!! That’s what’s so great about GA - learning things we never imagined.
I’ve recently moved and my patio faces north, so no direct sunlight 😔 Gonna miss not planting veggies this year.
Enjoy your day GA community! 🌞
Nature really is amazing! Love the promise of beauty in every seed.❤️
Oh yeah love lots of onions. God Bless.
So appreciate the update on the topiaries and ranunculus! Can't wait to get my onions started.
You said it! “Nature is amazing, that’s why we garden!”❤
Oh you are going to love those Zebrune shallots! I grew them last year, very pretty braided storing great and so sweet.
Good morning 🌱☕
Good morning Laura Monica Laura's dad I enjoyed onions
Do try the red onions in cooking, especially raw foods like salads both leaf and cabbage salads. I've seen chopped onions rinsed in cooking shows, to cut the flavor. I JUST PAID 2$ PER 1 single RED ONION AT SAFEWAY. I'm growing onions this garden year!.
Good morning! 🌻🐝
Good morning Laura and Aaron!! Hugs from N.C..❤️
Good morning from Maryland. Going up to 60 degrees today 🌞
I'm so excited to see how the shallots turn out for you. I grew onions from seed for the very first time last year (inspired by you) and they turned out great. Now I want to try shallots. But will use up the onion seeds I have first.
Merci beaucoup Laura, I love your video you are my sunshine!
good morning!🥀
Those onions look amazing! We love onions! I didn’t realize they could be grown from seed!
I have been growing shallots from seed for several years now. Johnny's has great selection of different varieties. So far Matador and Conservador have stored the longest for me. I store them in the basement and last summer I ate the last one from the year before on the same day I harvested my first batch of new season!
Harvest time will be awesome!
Hello Wanda how are you doing,
where are you from?
Am I the only one, but when Laura got blindsided by the shallots I said to myself she’s going to forget the vermiculite, lol. Love the video just wish I could have called and said “don’t forget the vermiculite.🤣 . Thanks for all your help and advice, I think I may try to grow some shallots this year.
Can you please show us when you next trim up your topiaries? Thank you!
First time for big onions!! Now I need to find shallots!!!
Hi Laura’s, I ordered some of the geraniums from swallow tail nursery, the maverick scarlet. They have all germinated in 5 days and are standing up about an inch with 2 leaves. Thanks for the tip, I am anxious to have them in the spring. We are in Michigan, so it is nice to see a little life growing. I really enjoy your videos.
Thank you for going step by step for this new gardener 😊
Now you’re in my wheelhouse. You may remember me saying I grew up near where you are. On a farm outside Nyssa. We grew yellow sweet Spanish onions 🧅 and russet potatoes (some red potatoes, too) my dad was president of Oregon onion growers association years ago. I am an onion snob and hate having to buy onions and potatoes in the grocery stores. I was somewhat instrumental getting a grocery store in Boise to buy more local onions, telling off their produce manager for buying Mexican grown onions - when the best onions in the country were grown 50 miles from them. So if growing your own is possible, I highly recommend it! 💚💚💚
I applaud you in SO many ways. I'm fortunate to live in an area where all of the grocery stores support our growers from veggies to orchards. But I'm sure that is likely because of someone like you who stepped up and used their voice in support of all things local, so thank you!
Kudos to you don't even realize people order produce from far away instead of going local. Go you
Right when I think Laura does everything and she is such a busy bee…she drops the bomb on me and says she cooks dinner every night….?!? Ummmm I can’t even do three nights a week 😂😭 is there anything you can’t or don’t do?! ❤️
I noticed the Botanical Interests seeds. Did you see Kevin’s news? I can’t remember if I started watching your channel because of him mentioning you or vice versa. But you two are my favorite gardening content creators. ❤️🌱 Now I’ve got seeds from BI and Andrew’s bulk bins. Stopped through Ontario on my way home to Salem from Yellowstone. 👍🏼
I get the feeling Dad really doesn’t like to be on camera. I can relate to that. ❄️💚🙃
Laura has said that in the past!
I've grown the Zerbrune shallots for several years. Love cooking with them. Fine flavor and they store pretty well.
Good to see the topiaries are filling in. I was wondering how they’re doing👍🏼
I’m unfortunately allergic to the entire allium family :( but that will be a robust onion crop! Always a pleasure!
Can’t wait to grow onions.
You’re right! The ball has started rolling. I’m in SW Ontario and just spotted our daffodils coming up from the ground yesterday. Today we are getting hit with lots of rain and it’s 11C which is crazy high for this time of year.
I was glad when I saw those topiaries in the background that you provided an update on them. They are very cool.
Very inspiring video! Thanks Laura.
Hey Laura. Do have any tips or videos on grapevine pruning for the winter? Love your videos, found them after I took over my family home and my grandmother’s garden thank you for helping me find my new passion 🫶🏽
Always love to see you planting ONIONS!!! Now......................we need some recipes so we can reap our rewards! mmm!
She shared some exiles from half baked harvest and I just pulled a bunch of recipes from her website last night!
@@amysgardenstead2879 I have all of those and the ones from Averie Cooks. I have a cookbook of all the recipes Laura and her Mom cook. Thanks for helping. Happy Valenine's Day.
Hay Laura if you have any of those candy seeds left over I have a space for them we can’t get them in Ireland 🇮🇪
Thanks for sharing
Looove when you seed!!! Thank you Laura!!!🥰😘
I was just getting ready to type out a comment asking how onion are grown and there you go answering it before I can post! 😂 Thanks as always for a fun and informative video!
Good morning Laura and family .
I'm not a seed person I tried it once to me its a slow process nope not for me, I do love watching you, planting your seeds.
Thank you for sharing, have a great rest of the day 👋🙂🧅
Hello Jean how are you doing,
where are you from?
Hi Laura! Thanks for sharing!
Good morning, Laura ☕️ I too love onions and I have never planted any 🤷♀️ Perhaps I’ll try winter sowing now here in Boston, zone 6. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
I never have success with planting onion bulbs- I am totally going to do seeds this year! Thanks Laura for the info!
Last year I attempted growing onions for the first time from seed. I had great success with germination and was so proud of all my healthy little starts with lots of beautiful roots. However, the plants put on very little growth and the bulb part never got bigger than about an inch or 2 in diameter. They were planted in Espoma raised bed mix near my peppers, tomatoes, and beans, which were fertilized (with garden tone) and watered the same amount and did amazing. Where did I go wrong? Do they need more fertilizer and or water than my other veggies? I chose a long day variety which is appropriate for my latitude. Thank you for sharing so much of your knowledge and experience with us. I am the passionate gardener that I am today largely thanks to you. 💕
Raw shallots through mashed potatoes with salt & butter. .. delicious
So informative!!! Thank you
I started my onion seeds a few days ago. Very exciting stuff! I'm hoping for a better crop this year.
I got some shallot sets from Andrews two years ago and plant them at the same time as my garlic. Haven’t tried the seed but I guess that’s a new thing to try. Shallots are a great cross between onion and garlic in cooking.
That’s a lot of onions!!! 12:36
Have you ever tried starting the onion seeds in an open flat kind of like sprouts? I start them in open flats, trim them back once , then prick them out and pot them up. It saves a lot of seed starting room. I have even left them close together in the float and them planted them out from there but found they get a bigger if they are potted up first. Also, you had a lot of seed left over. Do you get good germination if you save them for a second year?
Well done Laura 🌺. I love it . Have anice day 🌺🌻🌺
I think I might try shallots this year too!
Laura, thanks for the great video! Shallot is an amazing plant😘💛💙
This is perfectly timed. I bought onion slips from my garden center yesterday. I tried last year and it was an epic fail so hoping for better results this year 🤞🏻
I highly recommend that you take some of your onions dehydrate then and grind them into onion powder. It is the most amazing onion powder you will ever eat. It goes great on popcorn makes it taste like sour cream and onion flavor
Thanks for the tip! What a great way to extend the life of your harvest!
Just planted 4rows of Stuttgarten giant onion sets it is still frost on a night but they should be ok have bought the shallots today to plant tomorrow . Seed potatoes have arrived today to start chatting ready for planting later in the month.
This is a good time to try and start some fig cuttings. I see a few suckers coming up from your fig tree. You might even have a few roots on them if they came from under the soil. I have done many cuttings & rooted them. I now have 70 fig trees from over 100 a year ago. Had to downsize.
Wow that's amazing. They are so hard to grow and care for. Are you in Canada?
@@messybunsoap6712 I live in Michigan. Zone 6a I grow mine in pots. It’s hard to grow in ground in my zone. Check out a few of my videos on my fig trees. 😉 Im not Laura but I knew a few things about fig trees.
Hi Laura! I'm sorry if I missed it, but may I ask what topped your onion seeds with??
You answered my question...it's vermiculite, Do you recommend that for all seeds?
My local garden center has a chart of when to plant, start indoors or direct seed, when to transplant outside, row spacing, and plant spacing for our zone for just about any veggie/herb you can imagine planting. I refer to this chart all throughout the seed starting season.
ou are very lucky. Im going to look for that info when I go to the garden center
Wow beautiful video🌹🌹
Hi Laura and Aaron! I love your channel and it is so full of information. I am starting my seeds and was wondering if you could go over watering? How do you know when a cell is to dry or wet? I have one cell that is dry on top but seems moist underneath the surface? Using the self watering trays from Gardeners supply is great…but I am afraid that my seedlings would dampen off when the surface stays wet. Any helpful tips would be awesome!! Thanks again for inspiring us everyday!!
🎉🎉🎉seed starting time🎉🎉🎉I still have to wait a few weeks to start. Does the soul good starting the day this way with you😊
What a timely video, thanks for the refresher. I plan on starting my onions today , probably one flat 😊. Zone 6
Good morning from the west side of Oregon.
I need to get busy on seed starting!
Good morning from Delaware GA friends.
Good Morning! 🌞 I remember the Wall of Seeds! Anxious to watch the growing process of the onions! 🙂🧅🌿