I'm so proud of you 👏 I've watched your transformation from the beginning with nothing but a dream and some land, to a success story that inspires others to do the same. It's beautiful.
Something is always better than nothing. This is my 2nd year of harvest of potatoes, carrots and onions were medium to small also. It will get better...
Congrats on your onion harvest. Small onions still taste great. I think it’s pretty impressive that you are getting things to grow at all in your climate and with what you have on hand.
No failure at all here, what you are learning in the garden by experience is more valuable than 3 pounds of onions. I also just learned that sunflowers and onions don’t like each other. Sunflowers excrete something that inhibits the growth of some other plants.
I lost my whole 1/2 acre garden this year due 29” of rain in 40 days and then 90-100 wind and hail storm 9 months of wasted. I also lost 8 new fruit trees due to the wet soil.
We have had a problems with our tomatoes plants Dying out this year . They did produce and then died very quickly with tomatoes still on the vine .My Wife thinks it might be the netting I put the plants to keep the Deer away , next Year I plan on a fence ,In another area our Beens did great .
A trick to making a better soil for root veggies, dig up the soil to around 2 feet, fill it with all of the "composting" stuff, and then put about 6 inches of soil above it for winter. The biology in that area if you can keep it slightly moist, will be quite amazing. Add the actual soil back as it collapses.
Have you considered a pioneer crop of tillage radish to potentially eat but mainly break up hard soil and potentially rock? Bonus benefit of putting carbon in the ground if you leave them.
Hi John. One issue I can see immediately with your onion growing is that you are covering up the bulb. You should be pulling the soil away from the bulb to give them room to grow. Also, weeding is important, they don't like close neighbors. The roots are just the little wispy bits on the bottom of the plant. Do not plant them deep. Hope this helps. Keep up the good work.
I like the smaller onions in stews or methods of cooking. Easier to work with. Also those onions look fantastic. Ready to be planted again. Companion planting can be increase yeild as well. I grew onions along side jalapeno plants and they both produced quicker and better. I good cover crop that could help retain moisture is clover or oregano or herbs. Keep on going, growing, and learning! :-) Im blown away by the homestead. Very impressive
" Failure " is only a fail if you refuse to learn from it , Successful Failures are attempts at something that cause you to Learn . A person who has never failed is usually a person who has never tried to do anything . In challenging times it is the successful failure who succeeds while generally successful people begin to fail .
Something i have done and has worked is hay bale gardening. You can use bales or i use loose straw and plant in it. I grew a very bountiful potato harvest and it was a lot easier to dig. If you use loose straw you can mix in the bed to help loosen the soil or just plant the onions kr otger crop into it entirely. Also onion are quite cold hardy and can be planted or grow later in the season into snow. Also garlic is fantastic to grow in cold weather.
grow Mexican sunflower for chop and drop. or native plants that are perennial plants. Native trees to harvest wood for charcoal to be added into the soil. manure from the animals especially sheep. Maybe a pet sheep would be good.
I love onions❤ Watering and soil is a factor but having some success would indicate otherwise. Starts aren’t the best especially if brought in box stores, many times they aren’t right onion starts for that region, short, intermediate or long day onions, with the addition with starts sometimes they think they are in their second year of growing hence being biannual crops. You had some success, you could leave a few successful plants to go to seed, but will take another 12 months for seeds to form, to regrow following year. Seeds are always a better option than starts, starts correct for regional is more of an emergency, many can flower too, if so save the seeds. Better luck next year, soil is important, you have water free wee as fertiliser to mix in the compost a great source of nitrogen, with other manures like horse.
First you should be very proud of your an accomplishments so far, it has been a lot of work. You need to build a bio reactor right away, abandon your surface compost piles they take too long and dry out. You also loose all the good nutrients when that happens. Bio reactors work much more efficiently and quickly. They also will build your micro organisms, bacteria and insect life very quickly, this will change your soil so fast and you will be recycling all your organic matter cleanly. You should be able to find videos on RUclips to help you understand the concept. It works! Looking around you should be able to build a small reactor from scrap you have there on the homestead. I will say this I personally have built 2 myself and have upgraded Rev.02 with a access door at the bottom to remove finished product without a complete tear down, it keeps the cycle moving downward without deconstructing the reactor. Also try using weed blocker around your plants to help hold the moisture in and eliminate weeds from steeling your water. Good Luck we will keep watching! Bub
Yes you burn your fire and then when it is just a burning piles of embers at the end of the night you cover it with sand and then dig it all up a few days later to mix with your garden soil or you can just leave it buried for a later time after a few rains and years it turns to dark soil.
I'm so proud of you 👏 I've watched your transformation from the beginning with nothing but a dream and some land, to a success story that inspires others to do the same. It's beautiful.
Something is always better than nothing. This is my 2nd year of harvest of potatoes, carrots and onions were medium to small also. It will get better...
Congrats on your onion harvest. Small onions still taste great. I think it’s pretty impressive that you are getting things to grow at all in your climate and with what you have on hand.
No failure at all here, what you are learning in the garden by experience is more valuable than 3 pounds of onions. I also just learned that sunflowers and onions don’t like each other. Sunflowers excrete something that inhibits the growth of some other plants.
Your harvest looks great to me and would be so grateful to come out with that much, goals for sure❣️😆
I lost my whole 1/2 acre garden this year due 29” of rain in 40 days and then 90-100 wind and hail storm 9 months of wasted. I also lost 8 new fruit trees due to the wet soil.
@@AlsanPine we average 31” a year so we basically had a year’s worth in 40 days.
We have had a problems with our tomatoes plants Dying out this year . They did produce and then died very quickly with tomatoes still on the vine .My Wife thinks it might be the netting I put the plants to keep the Deer away , next Year I plan on a fence ,In another area our Beens did great .
A trick to making a better soil for root veggies, dig up the soil to around 2 feet, fill it with all of the "composting" stuff, and then put about 6 inches of soil above it for winter.
The biology in that area if you can keep it slightly moist, will be quite amazing.
Add the actual soil back as it collapses.
Sounds like you probably have six months to a year's worth of onions, which is a LOT of money saved at the grocery! Sounds like success to me.
I grow Patterson onions, her in ut 5500ft. Great storage type.
Have you considered a pioneer crop of tillage radish to potentially eat but mainly break up hard soil and potentially rock? Bonus benefit of putting carbon in the ground if you leave them.
100% it's a win!!
Hi John. One issue I can see immediately with your onion growing is that you are covering up the bulb. You should be pulling the soil away from the bulb to give them room to grow. Also, weeding is important, they don't like close neighbors. The roots are just the little wispy bits on the bottom of the plant. Do not plant them deep. Hope this helps. Keep up the good work.
I like the smaller onions in stews or methods of cooking. Easier to work with. Also those onions look fantastic. Ready to be planted again. Companion planting can be increase yeild as well. I grew onions along side jalapeno plants and they both produced quicker and better.
I good cover crop that could help retain moisture is clover or oregano or herbs.
Keep on going, growing, and learning! :-)
Im blown away by the homestead. Very impressive
I watched you from the Start , You did one heck of a job in my opinion . You are pretty much self efficient.
it seems this year is off in many places. it’s july i only had 4 cucumbers 😂
" Failure " is only a fail if you refuse to learn from it , Successful Failures are attempts at something that cause you to Learn . A person who has never failed is usually a person who has never tried to do anything . In challenging times it is the successful failure who succeeds while generally successful people begin to fail .
Well said 👍👍👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Something i have done and has worked is hay bale gardening. You can use bales or i use loose straw and plant in it. I grew a very bountiful potato harvest and it was a lot easier to dig. If you use loose straw you can mix in the bed to help loosen the soil or just plant the onions kr otger crop into it entirely. Also onion are quite cold hardy and can be planted or grow later in the season into snow. Also garlic is fantastic to grow in cold weather.
Awsome.
Cool video man.
why don't you have a well?
Of course you can use them for onion bulbs for next season.
grow Mexican sunflower for chop and drop. or native plants that are perennial plants. Native trees to harvest wood for charcoal to be added into the soil. manure from the animals especially sheep. Maybe a pet sheep would be good.
Looks great to me
I love onions❤
Watering and soil is a factor but having some success would indicate otherwise.
Starts aren’t the best especially if brought in box stores, many times they aren’t right onion starts for that region, short, intermediate or long day onions, with the addition with starts sometimes they think they are in their second year of growing hence being biannual crops.
You had some success, you could leave a few successful plants to go to seed, but will take another 12 months for seeds to form, to regrow following year.
Seeds are always a better option than starts, starts correct for regional is more of an emergency, many can flower too, if so save the seeds.
Better luck next year, soil is important, you have water free wee as fertiliser to mix in the compost a great source of nitrogen, with other manures like horse.
Grow beans brother. Legumes really rock just on water and bad soil. Even leguminous trees like tamarind hv edible leaves
paint the mesh on your green house black! you will thank me later!
First you should be very proud of your an accomplishments so far, it has been a lot of work.
You need to build a bio reactor right away, abandon your surface compost piles they take too long and dry out. You also loose all the good nutrients when that happens. Bio reactors work much more efficiently and quickly. They also will build your micro organisms, bacteria and insect life very quickly, this will change your soil so fast and you will be recycling all your organic matter cleanly. You should be able to find videos on RUclips to help you understand the concept. It works! Looking around you should be able to build a small reactor from scrap you have there on the homestead. I will say this I personally have built 2 myself and have upgraded Rev.02 with a access door at the bottom to remove finished product without a complete tear down, it keeps the cycle moving downward without deconstructing the reactor. Also try using weed blocker around your plants to help hold the moisture in and eliminate weeds from steeling your water. Good Luck we will keep watching! Bub
I have a few watermelon plants growing. Bugs are hell.
dang, big time onion crop
There is a professional gardener in Baja Mexico and he adds burnt wood charcoal to his soil . "This holds moister in the soil longer", he said.
Yes it's biochar it's an amazing amendment.
Yes you burn your fire and then when it is just a burning piles of embers at the end of the night you cover it with sand and then dig it all up a few days later to mix with your garden soil or you can just leave it buried for a later time after a few rains and years it turns to dark soil.
@@rideronthewhitehorse we soak the biochar in compost tea or worm tea first. It releases the nutrients as the roots need it. 👍🏻
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What town are you closest to?