With spring upon us, it’s time to think about planting in home gardens. In Iowa, onions are a popular addition to the vegetable garden as they are easy to grow and take up little space. In this ...

Whether direct seeding, transplanting seedlings or planting onion sets, onions should be spaced 3-4 inches apart to maximize growth. You need to be diligent about controlling weeds with onions. Onions ...

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Planting onions from small bulbs or "sets" is not the best way to grow large onions for storage. Plants grown from sets often begin blooming in mid-summer and stubbornly refuse to stop. Once that ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Planting onions is probably on your to-do list in the late winter or early spring. Many folks start onion seeds in January or plant onion sets outdoors in the early spring. But ...

The allium family of vegetables are easy to grow and often available year around. They can grow fairly close together, so they don't take up too much space in the garden. Plus, they add lovely flavor ...

An exhibitor inspects the red onions during the annual East African seeds Agricultural Farmers Field Day at Wambugu Farm in Nyeri. [Kibata Kihu, Standard] Onions are a hardy, cool season crop closely ...

Growing onions is a hugely popular past-time for vegetable gardeners around the globe. It can be a simple task, though there are lots of pitfalls that can hit your crop and ruin a potential harvest.

DENVER — If you wait until Mid-May or later to plant cool-season vegetables, they will fail. They need very cool temperatures--even below freezing--to develop properly. You cannot wait until it's warm ...