Traditional Onion Sowing | Tradition or not? | Best way to sow onions | Green Side Up
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2022
- Traditional Onion Sowing | Tradition or not? | Best way to sow onions | Green Side Up
Boxing day is the traditional day for sowing onion seeds, or is it? There is much debate about this but I believe it is tradition, watch the video to find out why, also discover why it is too early to sow leeks and shallots, a mistake many people make at this time of the year.
ONION SPECIAL I was part of a whole hours live discussion about growing Onions along with Jb and Tony Smith on the Potty Mouth Garden Club here • Potty Mouth Boxing Day... this is a discussion and live question and answer video one hour long, its not to be missed !
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Traditional Onion Sowing | Tradition or not? | Best way to sow onions | Green Side Up
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God I'm going to miss this wonderful human being ..thankyou steve for sharing you knowledge with everyone ❤
Thinking the same ❤
Rewatching this to refresh the tips you gave Steve really miss your video's RIP Steve 🙏 🕊
That was a surprise to see this video pop up. So sad Steve has passed 😢but his memory lives on. So much knowledge. 👏👏
I am going to carry on the boxing day tradition - sewing seeds to get away from the chatter ect - and I'm the granny !!! 😊
Thanks owd fella.
Just done our seeding.
You've now started a family tradition for us .
You're sorely missed Tony.
Great tips Steve. im getting my onions sown this week but been busy getting new live software sorted
Beautiful description of seed sowing and why it’s important to do certain things at certain times, it’s really going to help me figure out my 4th year of allotmenteering, thank you!
Love the """ the technical term "" shove it in !!!! Tony you are joy to watch 😀😀😀👏👏👏👏
Great info and I really like these relaxed, chatty videos. Happy New Year to you Steve, fingers crossed for an excellent growing season ahead 🧅
Thank you Karen, I am glad you are enjoying my videos, a very happy new year to you and your family too....Steve...🙂
Ever been told you look like Tim Roth? Good video. Informative.
Got mine done on Boxing Day too.
As usual, sown way more than I have space for 😂😂😂
This is the way, sowing too many alows you options....Steve...🙂
Thank you Steve! Hard to find Kelsae seed right now, sold out already I am finding, happy gardening, from Baudette Minnesota USA
Steve glad to see your shoulder is doing better. Thanks for the onion seed starting tips.
Hi Darry, I have put the shoulder into "ignore" mode for now so I canget on with things...Steve...🙂
Hi Steve I am new to veg gardening thought I was being clever putting seeds stait in to 6" pots will have to see how things turn out. But I will know in future Thanks.
Nice one Nick, a lesson learned is experience under your belt!...Steve...🙂
Hey Steve, I agree it is more important to know when you need your plants ready and what you will do with them and then you can calculate back to find the best day to start them. You may grow them for eating by a particular date and to show them on a different date. So you will need to start them on different dates to arrive maturity on your target date.
Here in Minnesota US I have a short growing season 155 days so I have to start veg that can finish be harvested while leaving enough time for another veg to be transplanted in and harvested all with in 155 days! It is like an air traffic controller for the garden.
Indeed, that is proper garden planning, being able to get crops in, then out again and the next one going!...Steve...🙂
Great information Steve & love the Boxing Day story 😊
We’ve all got our seeds ready … ready to follow along ❤
bring on 2023!!! ☀️🙏🏻
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Glad to see your shoulders better
lol Jo, I can sense your excitement with all the emoticons! Best of luck for 2023 Jo...Steve...🙂
First time here…. I’m so pleased found this, I have found it hard to find good easy information on uk gardening, us yea but not so much uk. A lot I found hard to digest the information, being autistic I need things simple to the point and informative. You got it spot on.
Have liked and subscribed and will start watching more content.
I still have my onions to sow yet. So I’m pleased I found this.
Thanks for sharing
Hi Steve, great video with plenty of information about growing onions from seed. Thanks for sharing and a Happy New year too 🙂
Thank you very much Christine!....Steve...🙂
Thanks Steve I was just about to sow my leeks. So glad I watched your video. All the best 👍
Your welcome Justin, hope you have a good season...Steve...🙂
❤ always enjoy watching and thank for the information on onions and leeks x
You are most welcome Karon...Steve...🙂
Thanks for all the info,I appreciate it.
You are welcome Joelle....Steve...🙂
Hi Steve all the best for 2023. 👍👍👍🥂
Thank you very much Michael and the same to you and your family....Steve...🙂
I did think about doing Boxing Day onions but didn’t manage them but you’ve got me motivated Steve. Leeks I was thinking about but I’ll wait until February thanks for clarifying
You are welcome Christine!...Steve...🙂
Hi Steve another great video last year I multi sowed my onions in February (Charles Dowding way) it worked well for me but I had a lot of small onions so I remembered your video from last year and sowed them boxing day and will separate them this year I did also sow my Shallots though so may have to do some more later. Going into my second allotment year now and loving all the help from your videos, Thanks Steve , all the best for the up coming growing year.
Thanks Derek, its all personal preference really, multi sowing is a great method and produces lots of weight at harvest and although I still multi sow some things I dont do everything that way...Steve...🙂
Hi we don’t have a window in our kitchen it’s a galley kitchen with French doors at the end leading to our postage stamp garden. So I have to use all of the rest of the windowsills. I grew onions from seed for first time last year and I grew Bedfordshire champion and they were amazing so I growing a lot more this year. I have planted onion sets in October wen I planted garlic. I don’t use that much garlic but we eat or use hundreds of onions in a year. They go into everything I cook almost. Thanks steve for your advice and fantastic information. I love watching you even tho we are seasoned growers you still give us good tips and teach us. So Thankyou and happy new year to you and your family do you have family?
This makes me very happy to read this that I can still interest seasoned growers along with those less well seasoned too, thanks for typing that out Mandy, it is very much appreciated!....Steve...🙂
Informative straightforward and brilliant nice video
Many, many thanks!...Steve...🙂
Had to laugh you got my Boxing day down to a tee 1/Sow onions 2/Horse and Football bet 3/ Sit in front of telly to watch racing and football scores lol why not its traditional lol
Excellent!...Steve...🙂
Happy New year to you Steve and the family always enjoy your allotment videos information great many thanks BA94Antrim n Ireland
Many thanks William....Steve...🙂
Wow 😲 nice sharing😊👍
Thank you for watching....Steve...🙂
thanks steve, that explains a lot about leeks. love your onion story too. i love that kind of stuff
Thank you Amanda, I look back on those days with extreme fondness...Steve...🙂
@@GreenSideUp I do with my nan, the extra long council house garden with a concrete path running up the middle, one apple tree and a coal shed. A white butterfly landed on my mum once, she said - it thinks I'm a flower, I said no it thinks you are a cabbage - hey, the knowledge of a 5 year old. My nan taught me well. Thanks again, it would be great to hear more. I look for old black and white gardening videos on youtube, but I don't find many.
Great video, lots of information I managed to get out and sow my onions on boxing day this year. So hoping for a good crop haha
Fingers crossed for you Mark...Steve...🙂
Steve,will you be doing a video on the next step with Onions. I sowed mine like you did and hope there will be another video showing the next step. Joelle
Thanks for the tips!
Your wecome Katie!....Steve...🙂
I like your Boxing Day onion videos as it means it's the start of the sowing season again (Yay!!) You're talking about end of February/March but it won't take that long to come round. I keep putting my sowing off then it's too late or I'm chasing my tail. Not this year though ☺️ Hope you have/had (depending when you read this) a good New Year
Yes it is the start of the new season for me also, I sow all year round but Boxing day is a key one for me....Steve...🙂
Great Tips Steve. Just recovering from Covid . Nice small job to do.
I hope you continue to improve Rubic !...Steve...🙂
I just love onions, and over the years struggle to get them to a decent size, this year was an improvement for me with some nice size ones! So this year I’ll follow your lead and try that method! Thanks for the video, have just subbed to your channel! 😂
Hi David and welcome here! Best of luck with your Onion crop this year!...Steve...🙂
Very interesting thank you xx
Many thanks Irene....Steve...🙂
Boxing Day Onions sown 👌👍🙂 Thx
Job done! Well done Joan....Steve...🙂
Nice tips Steve cheers
And cheers to you also Lee!....Steve...🙂
Happy New Year Steve!
Many thanks Annica!....Steve...🙂
I live in norway, we sow leeks in january, in order to Get mature leeks. Cant leave leeks in the ground over winther due to deep freeze.
Hello steve, which compost are you using? Thanks
I'm a gardening newbie. Can I please ask for the garden sieve what gauge mesh would you recommend?
I have sown my onion seeds in cell trays but I plan before the end of this week to broadcast sow some more, this will be a first for me. as for leeks its the end of February start of march I sow them.
Great stuff Wayne...Steve...🙂
Hi Steve. Once potted on into cell trays are the onions OK in a polytunnel?
Great timely advice Steve, thank you. Can you explain the reason why you wait to plant your shallots later.
Hi Michael, its all to do with day length (light levels) and ripening, so to take best adavntage of the longer summer days and best ripening and then curing after harvest for storage, it is better to sow them later....Steve...🙂
Thanks Steve 👍
Loved the video Steve. Can I ask a favour? Please can you do a heads up video when it's time to sow Leeks because I always forget and end up doing it super late. Mine are pencil thin now 😀
I will sow my leeks on video so you should not miss it....Steve...🙂
Hello Steve. Please forgive if this is a daft question but I'm totally new to gardening!!! I live in NW Turkey and I think I'm a 'zone 8' but our first frost - according to a local farmer - is in 5fe 3rd week in December. I showed my onions and garlic on 22nd Nov and they've grown! Should I sow seeds now or will everything mature at the same time and give me hundreds of onions at once? Thanks for all your help. Your videos are a huge help to me 👍
This is a difficult question for me to answer, local knowledge would be king here, talk to the local farmers for their thoughts, simply because it is their livelihood. Having been lucky enough to visit Turkey myself I know that growing conditions are great there...Steve...🙂
As always Steve sound practical advice, it was useful to hear the theory’s around onion sowing on Boxing Day I agree with all of it but I think also Boxing Day was the last day off work for many men . I will be sowing my onions seed in the next few days and will be following your advice completely. Hope you’ve had a nice Christmas and I wish you all the best for 2023.
My onions are now 30mm high - What's next? Bedfordshire Champion, Borrettana, White Lisbon, Capolla
When they are at the "crook" stage, pot them on into modules...Steve...🙂
Hi Steve
The only room I have to bring on is in the conservatory with no heat . So ok to put on a Electric propagated . The cab 4?
Yes so long as it's unheated I think your good
Hi Monster, yes that will be fine, no need to switch it on yet though, onions only need a temperature of around 13 degrees....Steve...🙂
It's not just you Steve, DT Browns calendar in their catalogue says" boxing day , sow onions" not that you needed or wanted justification. Is it ok to trim the seedlings once they develop?
It is not something I have ever done or would think to do Major, I have trimmed Leeks when planting out in previous years, when it is right to do so, but never done that with onions....Steve...🙂
Hi Steve. My question is about shop bought compost. Can I re-use last year's hanging basket compost for instance and if so, should I feed it before using it? Since I first started watching you I always sieve the compost, and I'm using a garden sieve that belonged to my mother in law that she bought in 1965!
Hey Kim the past few years I have been emptying most of my hanging baskets and pots and mix them together 50/50 with new compost then refill the container / pot. I will add a soil amendment which ever you like one that is even or close to even NPK values. This has made a difference for me. Also the soil holds the water better.
@@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm thankyou so much!
@@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm I agree with this approach. I do something similar myself
@@robsallotmentchannel9942 Thanks Rob 🙂
Bought bagged Compost is just a growing medium and generally feeds your plants for about six weeks. After that it is still (or should be) a good growing medium but will require some feed adding to it for the next plants you grow in it. Some Fish blood and bone or growmore will recharge it or mixing in some well rotted manure or other compost. It is an ideal medium for germinating seeds in, seeds have everything they need within that little shell to start growing and push up to the cotylodens (seed leaves or first leaves), after that they will need some feed to continue to photosythesize and grow. So your choice then is to either give them feed at the start so they can continue growing in that old compost or to prick them out into some good fesh compost....Steve...🙂
Won't be doing the potting on this year due to ridiculous prices of compost 😔
Time to produce your own compost Susie. You can do it!
Compost prices are looking bleak and I fear they will only get worse Susie, as Stellafire has said here it is time to make your own compost, everyone can do it to some degree and that in itself is part of gardening. Good luck!...Steve...🙂
@@Stettafire I produce enough compost to top my beds each spring , usually two pallet compost bays but I think I'm going to try Vermicompost for all my seedlings .One thing's for sure ,there will be no "coir" going in my beds or pots 🙂
How is the jumbo compost bin going on?
Hi Carl, I have just filmed that on my very latest "Happy New Year" video...Steve...🙂
Question hubby and me don’t seem to have any luck growing red onions of any variety and this includes seeds and sets. White onions are brilliant.
Any advice?
Yes, keep trying! Most gardeners have the same issue in that red onions can be more difficult than white. Try Red Baron Onions, they are reliable and work well. For Red Onions I know grow Mammoth Red available from Robinsons seeds, these will yield a decent sized slicing onions which is what I want....Steve...🙂
@@GreenSideUp thanks Steve we will have a go and let you know.
Oooh, that's a nifty water bottle top for watering. Is it home made or did you puchase it? 😎
You can buy them on Amazon.
Hi steve ,I did my onions on boxing day lol ,once they grow to say 3 inches and the tips go over ,can I pot them into 3inch pots rather than modules?
It is important to not go too big between potting on, pot on in to modules, then when the roots grow out of the bottom of those go one size up and pot on again. You want young plants to start to outgrow the container they are in so they are drinking the moisture in that container, if thay sit in too big a container they will be too wet and will never use all that moisture and can actually drown, so dont miss out the important potting on process....Steve...🙂
@@GreenSideUp thanks for your help seve ,really appreciated, I best sort out the modules now 👍👍👍😀
didn't you waste the seed packs by watering them?